Inger Leemans is Professor of Cultural History at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and PI of , a new research group on Dutch Culture and Identity at the Humanities Cluster of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Her research focusses on early modern cultural history, the history of emotions and the senses, cultural economy, history of knowledge and digital humanities. She has published about the history of pornography, (radical) Enlightenment, cultural infrastructure, stock markets and financial crises. Her text book on eighteenth century literature  (co-author Gert-Jan Johannes) was hailed in the press as ‘a masterpiece’. Often, her research triggers media attention, see e.g. the  about her inaugural lecture in 2011, journal  about her research on embodied emotions,Ìý about Digital Humanities,Ìýon wind trade and speculation, and her on ‘Making Sense of Finance’.
Inger Leemans coordinates projects on the cultural , on early modern , on the ,Ìýand collaborates in digital humanities projects (e.g. ,Ìý). As coordinator of  - The Amsterdam Centre for Cross-Disciplinary Emotion and Sensory Studies Leemans organizes seminars and lectures on the history and workings of emotions and senses. As principal investigator of the project, Leemans coordinated the working group Affective Economies - Knowledge and the Market. In 2020 the volume of this interdisciplinary project will be published by Routlegde. At this moment Leemans is researching the history of stock trade & the cultural imagination of financial crises.
Inger Leemans is a board member of: the European , the Dutch National Research Council for Cultural Heritage, the Royal Netherlands Historical Society (), the Graduate School for Cultural History , the National Council for Dutch Language and Culture of the , and a member of the .
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