Hendrikje Dorussen

Thesis title: Dying Tongues: Contemporary Literary Responses to the Language Endangerment Crisis

Supervisor: Matthew Reynolds

My doctoral research explores contemporary literary and artistic representations of endangered languages and the language endangerment crisis. I am interested in the ways native and non-native writers navigate working with and translating from languages in insecure states. Particularly, I am looking at the ways in which this often leads to innovative and transgressive modes of writing that test the boundaries of what gets to count as a book, or as literature. 

Research interests: translation theory, 20th and 21st century poetics, art history, visual culture, ecocriticism, indigeneity and postcolonial literature 

Research papers: 

• “Eqqumiitsuliorneq: Haptic Reading, Climate Representation and the Book-Objects of Nancy Campbell.” FRAME: Journal of Literary Studies, June 2025 (38.1).