Ann Rigney#
| Membership Number: | 3140 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.rigney.nl |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 - present Professor of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University
- 2003 Associate Department Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University (Spring term)
- 2000 - 2002 Professor of Comparative Literature, Free University Amsterdam
- 1997 - 2000 Senior Lecturer (associate professor) in Literary Theory, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Utrecht
- 1988 - 1997 University Lecturer (assistant professor) in Literary Theory, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Utrecht; tenure granted 1990
- 1987 - 1988 University Lecturer (assistant professor), Institute for Comparative and General Literature, University of Amsterdam
- 1986 - 1987 Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto
- 1982 - 1984 Research Assistant, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
- 1980 - 1981 Tutor, Departments of French and Anglo-Irish Literature, University College Dublin
- 1979 - 1980 Tutor, Department of English, University College Dublin
- 1979 Lecturer, Anglo-Irish Literature St. Patrick's College Maynooth (National University of Ireland)
- 1978 - 1979 Lectrice, U.E.R. des langues vivantes étrangères, University of Caen
Fields of Scholarship
- Memory studies
- Literary historiography
- Theories of fictionality
- Literary methodology
Honours and Awards
- 2009 - 2010 Fellowship Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS)
- 2008 HERA networking grant (3.000 euro)
- 2006 NWO research grant for the project “The Dynamics of Cultural Remembrance” (500.000 euro)
- 2001 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Award 2001 (American Conference on Romanticism) for Imperfect Histories (2001)
- 1994 Mouton d’Or Award (International Semiotics Association) for “Fame and De-famation: Towards a Socio-Pragmatics” (1994)
- 1982 - 1985 Annually renewed Graduate Scholarship (Government of Ontario)
- 1984 - 1985 Scholarship from the French Community of Belgium
- 1978 Mary Colum award in English Literature; French Government Prize for Excellence in French (based on Final BA examinations)
