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Claudine van Hensbergen

Associate Professor, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Claudine van Hensbergen has worked in the Humanities Department at Northumbria University since 2012. She is currently an AHRC Leadership Fellow, leading the project 'Learning through the Art Gallery: Art, Literature and Disciplinarity'. Prior to joining Northumbria she completed a doctorate at Oxford University and contributed to major-funded research projects at York University, Tate Britain and Oxford.

Claudine works on British literary and visual culture of the 1660s to the 1730s. She has published widely on drama, literature, sculpture and women's writing.

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century English Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Education

  • 2010 
    University of Oxford, DPhil