423 search results for “from and literary studies” in the Library website
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Tessa de Boer
Faculty of Humanities
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Gert-Jan Boon
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Remco Breuker
Faculty of Humanities
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Literature on discrimination and racism from the Leiden University Library collections
After large scale protests in the United States following police violence against black American citizens, racism in the Netherlands, too, is once again being widely debated. This renewed and intensified interest in the problems surrounding racism is prompting many to (re)read important works by black…
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English Language and Culture
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in English language and culture.
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Graphic Novels in South-Africa: the Work of Nathan Trantraal
Arts and culture
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Research suggestions
The research suggestions below may be suitable for a bachelor's or master's thesis or can be used as additional source material in ongoing research.
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German Language and Culture
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in German language and culture.
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Modern Literature from the Middle East - The Reading List
The Middle East has a rich literary tradition, which is steadily gaining a foothold in the West. Modern literary works deal with contemporary issues, such as the legacy of colonialism, the struggles between traditionalism and modernity, the place of women in society and the war in Israel/Palestine.
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Louise Glück is awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück (1942-). This means the Nobel committee passed by authors like Anne Carson, Jamaica Kincaid en Maryse Condé, many of whom were tipped by academics and literary critics as being strong contenders for the prize in 2020.…
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
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Christine Mertens
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul Wouters
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Müge Kinacioglu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Maartje Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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Leila Demarest
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Damian Pargas
Faculty of Humanities
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Mark Rutgers
Faculty of Humanities
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Jessie Sun
Faculty of Humanities
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Keiko Yoshioka
Faculty of Humanities
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Noa Schonmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Radhika Gupta
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Felix Ameka
Faculty of Humanities
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Neske Baerwaldt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Southeast Asian Special Collections
The Southeast Asian Special Collections contain text and audiovisual materials pertaining to the languages, histories, philosophies, religions, literatures, and (material) art of the region. The focus lies on the Malay world, in particular on the Nederlands-Indies/Indonesia. Apart from books and periodicals…
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Palestine and Israel
This subject guide is a work in progress, aimed to provide access to relevant academic works and online resources on Palestine and Israel, as well as, documentaries, films, and literature to familiarize yourself with the complexities of the conflict.
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
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Babak Rezaeedaryakenari
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ester van der Voet
Science
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Eduardo Alves Vieira
Faculty of Humanities
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Alette Jansen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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M. Revello Lami-
Faculteit Archeologie
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Medieval manuscripts available in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made more than five hundred medieval handwritten text sources available online via Digital Collections. This makes a third of her collection of Western medieval manuscripts – one of the largest and the most important in the Netherlands – available in high resolution…
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Korean - Dutch Literature Night
Reading & Panel Discussion
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Digitised Leiden Middle Eastern collections available in Digital Collections
More than 2000 objects from the Middle Eastern collection at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been made available online through Digital Collections. These collections mostly consist of written works in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac, but also contain printed works and the…
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Korean Newspapers, TV & Media
A guide for finding Korean newspapers, magazines, live TV broadcasts and audiovisual materials.
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Purchased with support from the Friends
As a Friend, you contribute to the acquisition, digitisation and restoration of important objects.
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Uncatalogued materials from the Middle East now available through Leiden University Libraries’ catalogue
A collection of uncatalogued books from the Middle East is now available through the Leiden University Libraries’ (UBL) catalogue. The collection contains over 12,000 books mainly written in Arabic, but also in multiple other languages from the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, including Persian,…
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A DIY tradition goes online: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
Close to twenty thousand pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry journals from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced “outside the system,” these journals are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…
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The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations from UBL
Last month, the UBL announced that it will deselect an extensive collection of foreign dissertations. We are happy to report now that The Internet Archive will be taking over this collection.
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Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ellen van Reuler
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Maikel Kuijpers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Karsten Wentink
Faculteit Archeologie
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Janet Connor
Faculty of Humanities
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Elmer Veldkamp
Faculty of Humanities
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Rene Kleijn
Science
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Pollmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Gijsbert Rutten
Faculty of Humanities