ePortfolio of Tina Janssen
Welcome to the ePortfolio of Tina Janssen, Early Career Fellow with the Institute of Advanced Study.
PhD research (2017-2021)
I recently completed my PhD on Sir William Jones (1746-1794) in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. My thesis, 'Future Scholars, Future Poets': the contemporary reception of Sir William Jones's translations of oriental literature, 1770-1835, focused on his translations of literary texts from oriental languages to Latin, English and French. I have researched contemporary responses to these works, for example by examining their reviews, letters, and translations. Furthermore, I discussed Romantic poets, using his translations as information and inspiration for creating their fictional oriental worlds.
My research is part of the project Oriental Poetry, Latin Scholarship and the European Enlightenment: The Case of William Jones, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. My supervisor is the Principal Investigator on the project, Dr. John T. Gilmore.
Publications
Janssen, C. G. M. (2021) Comparison as Context in Sir William Jones’s Translations of Eastern Literature, in Rohland, E., Epple, Angelika, Flüchter, Antje, Kramer, Kirsten (ed), Contact, Conquest, and Colonization: How Practices of Comparing Shaped Empires and Colonialism Around the World. Studies in Cultural History. New York: Routledge, pp. 225-241.
Conference papers
'The true spirit of poetry': Sir William Jones’s Poems (1772) as an Introduction to Oriental Poetry, BSECS Annual Conference, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, 8-10 January 2020
Sir William Jones’s Poems (1772) as an Introduction to Oriental Poetry, ISECS International Congress on the Enlightenment, University of Edinburgh, 14-19 July 2019
Sir William Jones's Persian Grammar: changing attitudes to language acquisition, BSECS Annual Conference, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, 4-6 January 2019
Nominated for the 2019 BSECS President's Prize, awarded to the best postgraduate paper at the Annual Conference.
3 Minute Thesis Lightning Talk, British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 5 December 2018
From Theology to Utility: Eighteenth-century Oriental Studies, The Making of The Humanities VII, University of Amsterdam, 15-17 November 2018
The comparative method of Sir William Jones, Contact – Conquest – Colonization: Practices of Comparing between Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas, from Antiquity to Present, Bielefeld University, 11-13 October 2018
Sir William Jones's Persian Grammar and the Academic Disciplinary Tradition, Warwick Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference, University of Warwick, 21 June 2018
Sacontalá's travels: the journey and influence of Sir William Jones's translation through Europe, Annual Warwick English PG Symposium, University of Warwick, 24 May 2018
3 Minute Thesis Lightning Talk, BECC-Warwick Symposium, University of Warwick, 17 May 2018
Sir William Jones and translations of the Sanskrit drama Sakontalá, BSECS Annual Conference, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, 3-5 January 2018
Reviewing the Reviews: First Reactions to Sir William Jones's Oriental Literature, BSECS Postgraduate and Early Career Conference, Swansea University, 7-8 September 2017
Workshop participation
Doctoral/ECR workshop 'British Empire: Networks, Mobilities, Cultures', Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick, 1 March 2019
Doctoral Translation Research Forum, Connecting Cultures GRP, University of Warwick, 25 October 2017
Teaching & facilitating
2021-2022: Teacher for the Master's programme Education in Language and Culture Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2018-2021: Facilitator with Warwick Doctoral College, providing workshops for PGRs
2019/20: Marker on the first-year module 'Epic into Novel' in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, 3 seminar groups
2018/19: Tutor on the first-year module 'Epic into Novel' in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, 3 seminar groups
2017/18: Tutor on the first-year module 'Modes of Reading' in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, 2 seminar groups
2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21: Tutor on the third-year module 'Communicating Science' in the Department of Physics, 2 seminar groups
Societies
2018-2021: Postgraduate Representative on the Executive Committee of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Conference organisation
January-September 2021: BSECS Postgraduate and Early Career Digital Seminar Series 2
January-May 2021: Colonial Knowledges Digital Seminar Series
July-December 2020 BSECS Postgraduate and Early Career Digital Seminar Series 1
7-8 July 2020: BSECS Postgraduate and Early Career Conference, University of Warwick CANCELLED
27-28 February 2020: Colonial Knowledges: Environment and Logistics in the Creation of Knowledge in British Colonies from 1750 to 1950, University of Manchester
3-4 September 2018: BSECS Postgraduate and Early Career Conference, Aix-Marseille Université
Academic background
MA Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Utrecht University, 2013
Specialisation: Renaissance Studies
MA thesis: Marginalia of eighteenth century readers of Livy: Cortius, Ernesti and Gronovius
MA Classics, Leiden University, 2013
Specialisation: Latin
MA thesis: From Medea to Médée - research into the reception of Seneca’s Medea in Corneille’s Médée
BA Classics, Leiden University, 2011
BA thesis: Lift me above the stars - Francesco Sforza in the Odae of Francesco Filelfo
MEd Classics, Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON), 2015
Teacher qualification for Latin and Greek
