Rick Honings

Rick Honings is Scaliger Professor Special Collections at Leiden University and a specialist in nineteenth-century Dutch and Dutch Indies literature. In 2018 he published Star Authors in the Age of Romanticism: Literary Celebrity in the Netherlands , the international edition of his monograph De dichter als idool: Literaire roem in de negentiende eeuw (2016) . In 2021, he co-edited De postkoloniale spiegel: De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen . Currently, he works with a research team on...See more

Rick Honings is Scaliger Professor Special Collections at Leiden University and a specialist in nineteenth-century Dutch and Dutch Indies literature. In 2018 he published Star Authors in the Age of Romanticism: Literary Celebrity in the Netherlands , the international edition of his monograph De dichter als idool: Literaire roem in de negentiende eeuw (2016) . In 2021, he co-edited De postkoloniale spiegel: De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen . Currently, he works with a research team on the NWO Vidi project Voicing the Colony: Travelers in the Dutch East Indies, 1800-1900 . He is editor-in-chief of the journal Indische Letteren . See less