Irene de Jong

Irene de Jong
Academic background
Alma mater University of Amsterdam
Academic work
Discipline Classics
Institutions University of Amsterdam

Irene J. F. de Jong is a classicist and professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam.[1] She is known for her pioneering work on Narratology and Ancient Greek literature.[1]

Career

Irene de Jong studied at the University of Amsterdam from 1978 until 1982, and taught Classics at the Stedelijk Gymnasium in Utrecht in 1982–83.[2] In 1984 she worked as a research fellow at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. She wrote her dissertation under a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) from 1985 until 1987.[1]

Since 2002 she has held the chair of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam.[1]

Selected publications

  • Narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad. Amsterdam 1987. Nachdruck Amsterdam 2004[3]
  • Narrative in drama: the art of the Euripidean messenger-speech. Leiden 1991 (Mnemosyne Supplement 116)[4]
  • with J. P. Sullivan: Modern critical theory and classical literature. Leiden 1994 (Mnemosyne Supplement 130)
  • A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey. Cambridge 2001[5]
  • Studies in ancient Greek narrative. Vol. 1: Narrators, narratees, and narratives in ancient Greek literature. Leiden 2004 (Mnemosyne Supplement 257)[6]
  • with Albert Rijksbaron: Sophocles and the Greek language: aspects of diction, syntax and pragmatics. Leiden 2006 (Mnemosyne Supplement 269)
  • Studies in ancient Greek narrative. Vol. 2: Time in ancient Greek literature. Leiden 2007 (Mnemosyne Supplement 291)
  • Studies in ancient Greek narrative. Vol. 3: Space in ancient Greek literature. Leiden 2012 (Mnemosyne Supplement 39)
  • Homer Iliad Book XXII. Cambridge 2012
  • I classici e la narratologia. Guida alla lettura degli autori greci e latini. Roma 2017.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Amsterdam, Universiteit van. "prof. dr. I.J.F. (Irene) de Jong - University of Amsterdam". www.uva.nl. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  2. ↑ Hoffmann, Ilire Hasani, Robert. "Academy of Europe: de Jong Irene". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  3. ↑ Scodel, Ruth (2002). "Review of: A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  4. ↑ Craik, Elizabeth M. (1992). "Irene J. F. De Jong: Narrative in Drama: the Art of the Euripidean Messenger-Speech. (Mnemosyne, Suppl. 116.) Pp. ix + 214. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen and Cologne: Brill, 1991. fl. 100". The Classical Review. 42 (2): 431–432. doi:10.1017/S0009840X00284606. ISSN 1464-3561.
  5. ↑ Sheila, Murnaghan, (2003). "Review of: Irene de Jong. A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001". ScholarlyCommons. 49.
  6. ↑ Scodel, Ruth (2005). "Review of: Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. Volume One. Mnemosyne Supplement 257". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  • "Jong, Prof. Dr. I.J.F. de (Irene)". KNAW. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  • "Modern critical theory and classical literature". worldcat.org. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
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