Irene de Jong

Irene de Jong
FBA
Born (1957-06-09) 9 June 1957
Leiden, Netherlands
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam
ThesisNarrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad (1987)
Mieke Bal and Jan Maarten Bremer
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Sub-discipline
Ancient Greek literature
InstitutionsUniversity of Amsterdam

Irene Jacqueline Frederike de Jong FBA (born 9 June 1957) is a Dutch classical scholar, known for her pioneering work on narratology and Ancient Greek literature.[1]

Career

Irene Jacqueline Frederike de Jong was born in Leiden on 9 June 1957.[2][3] She studied at the University of Amsterdam from 1978 until 1982, and taught Classics at the Stedelijk Gymnasium in Utrecht in 1982–83.[4] In 1984 she worked as a research fellow at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae at the University of Hamburg. She wrote her dissertation, Narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad,[3] at the University of Amsterdam, funded by a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) from 1985 until 1987,[1] under the supervision of Jan Maarten Bremer and Mieke Bal.[5] She then continued to work at the University of Amsterdam, first as a postdoc and later as a research fellow.

From 2002, De Jong held the chair of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam.[1] Her retirement was marked by the publication of a volume of essays in 2022, titled Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Irene de Jong.[6]

De Jong has been member of the Academia Europaea since 2007.[7] In 2015, De Jong was also selected as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[8][9] In 2019 she was elected a foreign member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[10] She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2022.[11]

Selected publications

  • Narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad. Amsterdam 1987. Nachdruck Amsterdam 2004[12]
  • Narrative in drama: the art of the Euripidean messenger-speech. Leiden 1991 (Mnemosyne Supplement 116)[13]
  • with J. P. Sullivan: Modern critical theory and classical literature. Leiden 1994 (Mnemosyne Supplement 130)
  • A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey. Cambridge 2001[14]
  • Studies in ancient Greek narrative. Vol. 1: Narrators, narratees, and narratives in ancient Greek literature. Leiden 2004 (Mnemosyne Supplement 257)[15]
  • 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
  • Narratology and Classics: A Practical Guide. Oxford 2014.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Amsterdam, Universiteit van. "prof. dr. I.J.F. (Irene) de Jong - University of Amsterdam". www.uva.nl. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  2. ↑ "de Jong, Irene J. F. de". Library of Congress. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Prof. dr. I.J.F. de Jong, 1957 -" (in Dutch). University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020.
  4. ↑ Hoffmann, Ilire Hasani, Robert. "Academy of Europe: de Jong Irene". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2018-08-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ de Jong, Irene (1987). Narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad. Grüner. p. vii.
  6. ↑ de Bakker, Mathieu; van der Berg, Baukje; Klooster, Jacqueline, eds. (2022). Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond. Brill. pp. xiii–xiv. ISBN 9789004506053.
  7. ↑ "Academy of Europe: de Jong Irene". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  8. ↑ "Irene de Jong appointed as KNAW member". aihr.uva.nl. University of Amsterdam. 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  9. ↑ "Irene de Jong". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017.
  10. ↑ "Academy members". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  11. ↑ "Record number of women elected to the British Academy". The British Academy. Retrieved 2022-07-22.
  12. ↑ Scodel, Ruth (2002). "Review of: A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  13. ↑ 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. S2CID 162464967.
  14. ↑ Sheila Murnaghan (2003). "Review of: Irene de Jong. A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001". ScholarlyCommons. 49.
  15. ↑ 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.
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