Last updated by bvdham on 2022-04-28. Originally submitted by tomash on 2017-09-01.
Prof. UAM dr. hab. Christopher Joby
Visiting Professor
Office: Collegium Heliodori, room 355
Phone: (+48) 61 829 3773
E-mail: chrjob@amu.edu.pl
Duty hours: link
Non-teaching duties (in Polish): link
Websites / Profiles:
Degrees
- PhD in History, Durham University, UK, 2006
- B.A. in Humanities, Durham University, UK, 2002
Research interests
- The Dutch language and literature in early-modern Britain
- The Dutch language in Tokugawa Japan
- Societal and individual multilingualism in early-modern Europe
- English language morphology
- The Dutch language in Taiwan
Books
- John Cruso of Norwich and Anglo-Dutch Literary Identity in the Seventeenth Century. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2022
- The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) Leiden: Brill, 2020
- The Dutch Language in Britain (1550-1702). Leiden: Brill, 2015
- The Multilingualism of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687). Amsterdam: AUP, 2014
- Poems on the Lord’s Supper by the Dutch Calvinist Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687). Lampeter: Mellen Press, 2008
- Calvinism and the Arts: A Re-assessment. Leuven: Peeters, 2007
Teaching experience
- Dutch language acquisition
- Dutch grammar
- Dutch-English contrastive grammar
- Dutch and Flemish literature
- Dutch cultural history
- Netherlands and International Relations
- Early-modern English literature
- Introduction to the Humanities
Other experience
- External reviewer for the Dutch Government, NWO
- Translation of Dutch plays and poetry into English
- Guest editor, Dutch Crossing 2014(2)
- CNaVT examiner, Hankuk University, 2013-2017
- Organized symposium, The Dutch Strangers in Norfolk, 2013
- Reviewer for Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics
- Reviewer for Werkwinkel
- Reviewer for Neerlandica Wratislaviensia
- Contributor to Ons Erfdeel English Platform
- Blog on the history of Dutch: https://historyofdutch.blogspot.com/
- Contributor to edition of Onze Taal on Dutch in Japan, June 2021
Professional organizations
- Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde
- IVN - Internationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek
- ALCS – Association of Low Countries Studies
Editorial:
- Guest editor, Dutch Crossing 2014(2)
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Dutch
Studies journal 'Internationale Neerlandistiek
Other positions and research activities
- Visiting Scholar, Academia Sinica 2020-21
- Contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Taiwan Studies
- Research Associate, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa 2017- 2019
- Visiting Tutor, Dutch-English Translation, City University, London 2007-2018
- Consultant on a research project mapping the Dutch language in seventeenth-century Taiwan 2011-
Scholarships and bursaries
- Brill Fellowship, Scaliger Institute, Leiden University 2022
- AMU Rector’s Prize (Nagroda Rektora) First Class for research 2020
- ID-UB grant 2020-2022
- Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation grant 2020-2021
- Isaac Alfred Ailion Fellowship 2019, Scaliger Institute, Leiden
University
- Taiwan Fellowship 2019
- AMU Rector’s Prize (Nagroda Rektora) First Class for research 2017
- Association of Low Countries Studies 2012-2017
- De Stichting voor de Geschiedenis van de Taalwetenschap 2012
- Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde 2007-2010
- British government AHRC for PhD 2004
- Erasmus bursary, VU, Amsterdam 2004
Papers read at international conferences and congresses
- 'Evenwicht tussen taalvariatie en taalcontact'. Keynote-speaker at Colloquium Neerlandicum, Nijmegen, August 2022
- 'The Reception of the Christian Gospel in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan (by invitation) Academia Sinica, March 2021
- Internationaal Colloquium Neerlandicum, Leuven, August 2018
- The 5th International Conference of Tainan Study, Tainan, Taiwan, October 2017 (by invitation)
- Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Brugge, August 2016
- Association of Low Countries Studies Conference, Dublin, June 2016
- Internationaal Colloquium Neerlandicum, Leiden, August 2015
- Jaarcongres De Zeventiende Eeuw, Groningen, August 2014
- Taal en Tongval Colloquium, Ghent, December 2012 (by invitation)
Publications