Willie van Peer explained

Willie van Peer
Birth Name:Joannes van Peer
Birth Date:1947
Birth Place:Sint-Lenaarts, Belgium
Occupation:Professor emeritus in the Faculty of Languages and Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany
Spouse:Mimi Debruyn
Website:https://www.daf.uni-muenchen.de/personen/emeriti/van_peer/index.html
Alma Mater:Lancaster University
Thesis Title:Stylistics and Psychology. Investigations of Foregrounding (1980) re-edited by Routledge in 2020.
Doctoral Advisor:Geoffrey Leech and Michael Short
Discipline:Literary theory
Sub Discipline:Empirical study of literature
Workplaces:Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Notable Works:Stylistics and Psychology: Investigations of Foregrounding

Willie van Peer is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Languages and Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.[1] He is a linguist, literary scholar, and one of the founders of the empirical study of literature. Van Peer has published extensively in his main areas of research: foregrounding,[2] [3] [4] [5] narratology,[6] literary evaluation,[7] [8] literary theory,[9] emotion in literature [10] [11] and intimate relations in literature. Van Peer was Vice President of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA, 1996–1998), Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA, 2000–2003) and President of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL, 2004–2006). He was (co-)editor of the series Linguistic Approaches to Literature (2000–2010) and founding editor of Scientific Study of Literature (2011). Directions in Empirical Literary Studies[12] was published in his honour in 2008.

Van Peer's PhD and the book Stylistics and Psychology. Investigations of Foregrounding (1986) was the first attempt to empirically validate the concept of foregrounding, originally developed by the Russian Formalists and Prague Structuralists.

Van Peer has been Visiting Scholar in the Departments of Comparative Literature at Stanford and at Princeton University, and in the Department of (Cognitive) Psychology at the University of Memphis. He is also a Fellow of Clare Hall of Cambridge University and an Honorary Professor of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University.

REDES project

The Research for the Development of Empirical Studies project (REDES, 2002–2012) was inaugurated when Willie van Peer and Frank Hakemulder[13] (Utrecht University) were invited to teach a summer course at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and came into contact with an on-going project being carried out by Sonia Zyngier following the tenets of critical pedagogy. They invited Anna Chesnokova [14] (then Kyiv National Linguistic University) to join. The central goal of the project was to promote an environment where students could become autonomous researchers through intercultural cooperation over the internet and through face to face events.[15]

For a decade, the REDES international research group investigated culture, literature, language and media from a multicultural perspective.[16] [17] [18]

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Prof. Willie van Peer, Ph. D. . Prof. Willie van Peer, Ph. D. . Ludwig Maximilians Universität München . 27 December 2021.
  2. van Peer . Willie . Foregrounding: Past, Present, Future . Stylistics . 2007 . 1–22 . 10.1163/9789401205313_002 . 9789401205313 . 27 December 2021.
  3. van Peer. Willie. January 1993. Typographic foregrounding. Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics. 2. 1. 49–61. 10.1177/096394709300200104. 220725561. 0963-9470.
  4. Chesnokova . Anna . Peer . Willie van . 2016 . Anyone came to live here some time ago: A cognitive semiotics approach to deviation as a foregrounding device . Versus . 1/2016 . 5–22 . 10.14649/84875 . 0393-8255.
  5. Chesnokova . Anna and Willie van Peer . So Sincerely, So Tenderly. Foregrounding in Pushkin's "I Loved You" . Znaki Czy Nie Znaki? . 3 . 81–93.
  6. van Peer. Willie. Maat. Henk Pander. 2001-08-01. Narrative perspective and the interpretation of characters' motives. Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics. 10. 3. 229–241. 10.1177/0973-9470-20010803-04. 143092444. 0963-9470.
  7. van Peer. Willie. 1997. Multilated Signs: Notes toward a Literary Paleography. Poetics Today. 18. 1. 33–57. 10.2307/1773232. 1773232. 0333-5372.
  8. Peer . Willie van . Chesnokova . Anna . Reading and Rereading: Insights into Literary Evaluation . 2018-06-29 . Advanced Education . 5 . en . 39–46 . 10.20535/2410-8286.125730 . 59157087 . 2410-8286. free .
  9. Web site: Willie van Peer, Chesnokova A. V. Literariness in Readers' Experience. Further Developments in Empirical Research and Theory. . 2022-04-17 . scienceandeducation.pdpu.edu.ua . uk-ua.
  10. Ludwig Maximilian University. van Peer. Willie. Chesnokova. Anna. Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University. Springer. Matthias. Ludwig Maximilian University. Distressful Empathy in Reading Literature: The Case for Terror Management Theory?. January 2017. Science and Education. 12. 1. 33–41. 10.24195/2414-4665-2017-1-6. free.
  11. van Peer . Willie . What Literature Does to Our Emotions, and How Do We Know? . Synopsis . 31 March 2019 . 25 . 1 . 1–10. 10.28925/2311-259x.2019.1.1 .
  12. Book: Zyngier, Sonia{{!}}Bortolussi . Directions in Empirical Literary Studies . 15 May 2008 . John Benjamins Publishing Company . 978-90-272-9062-5 . English.
  13. Web site: Medewerkers - Universiteit Utrecht . 2022-07-22 . www.uu.nl.
  14. Web site: Співробітники - Кафедра лінгвістики та перекладу - Чеснокова Ганна Вадимівна . 2022-09-29 . frgf.kubg.edu.ua.
  15. Web site: Viana . Vander . Chesnokova . Anna . Zyngier . Sonia . van Peer . Willie . Viana . Vander . Chesnokova . Anna . Zyngier . Sonia . van Peer . Willie . Budding Researchers in the Humanities: An Intercultural Online Project . 10.4018/978-1-60566-870-3.ch014 . English.
  16. Chesnokova . Anna . Zyngier . Sonia . Peer . Willie van . 2017-04-13 . Learning through Research: Invigorating the Humanities . Pedagogika . en . 125 . 1 . 195–210 . 10.15823/p.2017.14 . 2029-0551. free .
  17. Book: Zyngier . Sonia . Acting and connecting: cultural approaches to language and literature . Chesnokova . Anna . Viana . Vander . 2007 . Lit ; Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers ; Distributed in UK by Global Book Marketing . 978-3-8258-0750-4 . Münster; Piscataway, NJ; London . English . 171564212.
  18. Chesnokova . Anna . Zyngier . Sonia . Peer . Willie van . Long-Term Research Assessing in the Humanities: A Case Study . 2016-06-30 . Advanced Education . 5 . en . 49–59 . 10.20535/2410-8286.62949 . 2410-8286. free .

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