dr. T.E. (Thijs) Lijster

My current research is part of an Erasmus+ project titled Essays beyond borders (EBB), in cooperation with universities and organizations from Malta, Ghent, Pisa, Montpellier, and Ljubljana.

The EBB objectives are to:

• promote essayistic writing as a tool for civic engagement and active citizenship

• strengthen the participants’ critical and creative thinking skills;

• encourage participants to develop their voice through self-reflective writing based on individual experience;

• provide participants with ways of thinking about and addressing the effects of climate change; and

• conduct and disseminate research on the contemporary uses of the essay in democratic societies.