Irene de Jong explained

Birth Place:	Leiden, Netherlands
Alma Mater:	University of Amsterdam
Discipline:	Classics
Workplaces:	University of Amsterdam

Irene J. F. de Jong (born 1957) is a classicist and professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam.^[1] She is known for her pioneering work on narratology and Ancient Greek literature. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.^[2]

Career

Irene de Jong was born in Leiden in 1957.^[3] She studied at the University of Amsterdam from 1978 until 1982, and taught Classics at the Stedelijk Gymnasium in Utrecht in 1982–83.^[4] In 1984 she worked as a research fellow at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. She wrote her dissertation, 'Narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad, at the University of Amsterdam under a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) from 1985 until 1987. She then continued to work at the University of Amsterdam, first as a postdoc and later as a research fellow.

Since 2002 she has held the chair of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam.

De Jong has been member of the Academia Europaea since 2007.^[5] In 2015, De Jong was also selected as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.^{[6] [7]} In 2019 she was elected a foreign member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[8] She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2022.^[9]

Selected publications

• Narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad. Amsterdam 1987. Nachdruck Amsterdam 2004^[10]
• Narrative in drama: the art of the Euripidean messenger-speech. Leiden 1991 (Mnemosyne Supplement 116)^[11]
• with J. P. Sullivan: Modern critical theory and classical literature. Leiden 1994 (Mnemosyne Supplement 130)
• A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey. Cambridge 2001^[12]
• Studies in ancient Greek narrative. Vol. 1: Narrators, narratees, and narratives in ancient Greek literature. Leiden 2004 (Mnemosyne Supplement 257)^[13]
• with Albert Rijksbaron: Sophocles and the Greek language: aspects of diction, syntax and pragmatics. Leiden 2006 (Mnemosyne Supplement 269)
• Studies in ancient Greek narrative. Vol. 2: Time in ancient Greek literature. Leiden 2007 (Mnemosyne Supplement 291)
• Studies in ancient Greek narrative. Vol. 3: Space in ancient Greek literature. Leiden 2012 (Mnemosyne Supplement 39)
• Homer Iliad Book XXII. Cambridge 2012
• I classici e la narratologia. Guida alla lettura degli autori greci e latini. Roma 2017.

References

1. Web site: prof. dr. I.J.F. (Irene) de Jong - University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam. Universiteit van. www.uva.nl. en. 2018-08-16.
2. Web site: Professor Dr Irene De Jong FBA . 2022-07-22 . The British Academy . en.
3. Web site: Prof. dr. I.J.F. de Jong, 1957 - . https://web.archive.org/web/20200919220944/http://www.albumacademicum.uva.nl/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=simple&lang=nl&c=ap&rgn1=entirerecord&q1=Jong&x=0&y=0&cc=ap&view=reslist&sort=achternaam&fmt=long&page=reslist&size=1&start=143 . Dutch . University of Amsterdam . 19 September 2020.
4. Web site: Academy of Europe: de Jong Irene. Hoffmann. Ilire Hasani, Robert. www.ae-info.org. 2018-08-16.
5. Web site: Academy of Europe: de Jong Irene. www.ae-info.org. 2019-11-22.
6. Web site: Irene de Jong appointed as KNAW member. University of Amsterdam. 2015-05-18. aihr.uva.nl. en. 2019-11-22.
7. Web site: Irene de Jong . https://web.archive.org/web/20170823091317/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/4318 . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 23 August 2017.
8. Web site: Academy members . Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters . 11 April 2020.
9. Web site: Record number of women elected to the British Academy . 2022-07-22 . The British Academy . en.
10. Scodel. Ruth. 2002. Review of: A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 1055-7660.
11. Craik. Elizabeth M.. 1992. Irene J. F. De Jong: Narrative in Drama: the Art of the Euripidean Messenger-Speech. (Mnemosyne, Suppl. 116.) Pp. ix + 214. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen and Cologne: Brill, 1991. fl. 100. The Classical Review. en. 42. 2. 431–432. 10.1017/S0009840X00284606. 162464967 . 1464-3561.
12. Sheila Murnaghan. 2003. Review of: Irene de Jong. A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ScholarlyCommons. en. 49.
13. Scodel. Ruth. 2005. Review of: Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. Volume One. Mnemosyne Supplement 257. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 1055-7660.

External links

• Web site: Jong, Prof. Dr. I.J.F. de (Irene). KNAW. 2018-08-16.
• Web site: Modern critical theory and classical literature. worldcat.org. 2018-08-18.