Reinier Salverda

Reinier Salverda (Arnhem, 1948) studied Dutch Language and Literature at the Free University in Amsterdam, where he obtained his PhD in Linguistics in 1985. From 1981 tot 1989 he taught Dutch and linguistics at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta. In 1989 he was appointed Professor of Dutch Language and Literature at University College London, where he taught Dutch language, linguistics, history and colonial literature till 2006, when he was appointed Director of the Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He continues to be involved with the Dutch Department at University College London as Honorary Professor of Dutch Language and Literature.

Publications:

Salverda, Reinier (2004). 'Image and counterimage of the colonial past'. In: Douwe Fokkema & Frans Grijzenhout (eds.), Accounting for the Past, 1650-2000. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 67-92.

Salverda, Reinier (2005). ´The case of the missing empire, or the continuing relevance of Multatuli's Max Havelaar (1860)´. In: European Review 13 no. 1, 125-136.

Salverda, Reinier (2007a). 'Young Man, Go East! Investigating colonial topoi in Dutch literature'. In: Dutch Crossing 31 nr. 1, 3-24.

Salverda, Reinier (2007b). 'For Justice And Humanity' Multatuli and Pramoedya Ananta Toer - Dutch-Indonesian Literary, Historical and Political Connections'. In: Thomas F. Shannon & Johan P. Snapper (eds.), Dutch Literature and Culture in an Age of Transition. The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Literature 2005. Münster: Nodus, 121-140.

Salverda, Reinier (2008). 'Contributions on Dutch Colonial History'. In: Prem Poddar et al. (eds.), A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Salverda, Reinier (2009). 'Doing Justice in a Plural Society: A Postcolonial Perspective on Dutch Law and Other Legal Traditions in the Indonesian Archipelago, 1600-Present'. In: Dutch Crossing 33 no. 2, 152-170.