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Evert Hendrik van Emde Boas

Associate professor, research programme director

Evert Hendrik van Emde Boas

Associate professor, research programme director

  • School of Culture and Society - Classical Philology, subject
Type of address: Postal address.
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 5
1461, 318
8000
Aarhus C
Denmark

Email: evert.vanemdeboas@cas.au.dk

Phone: +4587162346


Employment

Associate professor, research programme director

School of Culture and Society - Classical Philology, subject

Aarhus University

Aarhus C, Denmark

21 Jun 2023 → present

Associate professor, research programme director

School of Culture and Society - Classical Philology, subject

Aarhus University

Aarhus C, Denmark

13 Feb 2020 → 21 Jun 2023

Previous employment

2017-2020Leventis Research Fellow in Ancient Greek, Merton College, Oxford
2016-2017Stipendiary Lecturer in Classics, Oriel College, Oxford
2014-2017Calleva Postdoctoral Research Associate, Magdalen College, Oxford
2010-2014Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek Linguistics, University of Groningen
2011-2014Lecturer in Greek and Latin Language and Culture, Leiden University
2009-2014Lecturer in Ancient Greek Language and Culture, University of Amsterdam (various posts)
2010-2011Lecturer in Ancient Greek Language and Culture, VU University Amsterdam
2007-2010Various tutorial and language teaching positions, University of Oxford

Education

2006-2010DPhil, Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
2005-2006MSt, Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Magdalen College, Oxford
2004-2005MA, Greek and Latin Language and Culture, University of Amsterdam
2001-2004BA, Greek and Latin Language and Culture, University of Amsterdam

Research interests

General interests: archaic and classical Greek literature (esp. epic, drama, oratory), linguistic approaches to ancient texts, cognitive and experimental literary studies, Greek historical and synchronic linguistics, Greek grammar.

Some specific areas: characterization in Greek literature, ethopoeia in Attic oratory, conversational structure in Greek, linguistic politeness phenomena, gender-specific aspects of language use, the use of proverbs and wisdom sayings (paroemiology), Greek particles, Greek tense usage, hapax legomena, visualization of Greek narrative, textual criticism of Greek drama; the psychology of dramatic audiences.

Publications

Books and edited volumes
2019E. van Emde Boas, A. Rijksbaron, L. Huitink, and M. de Bakker, The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek, Cambridge UP.
2019A. Rijksbaron, Form and Function in Greek Grammar, ed. by R. Allan, E. van Emde Boas, and L. Huitink, Leiden: Brill.
2019K. De Temmerman and E. van Emde Boas (eds.), Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature (Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, vol. 4), Leiden: Brill. (Incl. ‘Aeschylus’, and ‘Euripides’ (and co-authored with K. De Temmerman), ‘Character and Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature: An Introduction’, and ‘Epilogue’)
2019A. Rijksbaron, Form and Function in Greek Grammar, ed. by R. Allan, E. van Emde Boas, and L. Huitink, Leiden: Brill.
2017E. van Emde Boas, Language and Character in Euripides’ Electra, Oxford UP.
Articles and chapters
2022E. van Emde Boas, ‘Mind Style, Cognitive Stylistics, and Ethopoeia in Lysias’, in A. Serafim and A. Vatri (eds.), Trends in Classics 14.2: 233-254 (special issue Style and the Ancient City: Form and Functions of Language and Style in Attic Oratory, ed. by A. Seraphim, A. Vatri).
2022E. van Emde Boas, ‘Im/politeness and Conversation Analysis in Greek Tragedy: The Case of Theseus and the Herald in Euripides’ Supplices’, in L. Unceta Gomez and Ł. Berger (eds.), Im/politeness in Ancient Greek and Latin, pp. 227-249, Cambridge UP.
2022E. van Emde Boas, ‘Deixis and World Building’, in L. Swift (ed.) A Companion to Greek Lyric, pp. 162–175, Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.
2022E. van Emde Boas, ‘Fear and Loathing at the Xanthus’, in M. de Bakker, B. van den Berg, J. Klooster (eds.), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Irene de Jong, Leiden: Brill.
2022E. van Emde Boas, ‘“Filler Lines” in Greek Tragedy as Stylized Backchannelling’, Scienze dell’Antichità 27.3: 71–86.
2021E. van Emde Boas, ‘Aeschylus’, ‘Sophocles’, and ‘Euripides’, in I.J.F. de Jong and M.P. de Bakker (eds.), Speech in Ancient Greek Narrative (Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, vol 5), pp. 407–427, 428–447, 448–471, Leiden: Brill.
2021E. van Emde Boas, ‘The Linguistic Characterisation of Oedipus in OT: A Pragmatics-Based Approach to “Mind Style”’, in G. Martin, F. Iurescia, S. Hof and G. Sorrentino (eds.), Pragmatic Approaches to Drama: Studies in Communication on the Ancient Stage, pp. 96–120, Leiden: Brill.
2021E. van Emde Boas, ’Emotion, Memory, Meaning, Directions: A Response to Kirsten Hartvigsen and Thomas J. Kraus’, Biblical Interpretation 29.4–5: 616–630 (special issue Cognitive Linguistics and New Testament Narrative: Investigating Methodology through Characterization, ed. by E. Shively and J. Rüggemeier).
2020J. Thompson, S. Duncan, E. van Emde Boas, F. Budelmann, B. Teasdale, L. Maguire and R. Dunbar, ‘Differential Effects of Film Genre on Viewers’ Absorption, Identification, and Enjoyment’, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000353
2020E. van Emde Boas, A. Rijksbaron, L. Huitink and M. de Bakker, ‘Een nieuwe grammatica van het klassiek Grieks’, Lampas 53.1: 84–95.
2019F. Budelmann and E. van Emde Boas, ‘Attending to Tragic Messenger Speeches’, in J. Grethlein et al. (eds.), Experience, Narrative and Criticism in Ancient Greece: Under the Spell of Stories, Oxford UP, 59-80.
2019E. van Emde Boas, A. Rijksbaron, L. Huitink and M. de Bakker ‘The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek: A New Reference Grammar for Ancient Greek: Aims and Principles’, Journal of Classics Teaching 20: 30–34.
2019R.J. Allan, E. van Emde Boas, and L. Huitink, ‘Introduction’, in Form and Function in Greek Grammar (see under edited volumes).
2018J. Thompson, B. Teasdale, S. Duncan, E. van Emde Boas, F. Budelmann, L. Maguire, and R. Dunbar, ‘Individual Differences in Transportation into Narrative Drama’, Review of General Psychology, 22.2: 210–219.
2017R. Dunbar, B. Teasdale, J. Thompson, F. Budelmann, S. Duncan, E. van Emde Boas, L. Maguire, ‘Emotional Arousal When Watching Drama Increases Pain Threshold and Social Bonding’, Royal Society Open Science 2016.3.160288.
2017E. van Emde Boas, ‘Analyzing Agamemnon: Conversation Analysis and Particles in Greek Tragic Dialogue’, Classical Philology 112.4: 411-34.
2017F. Budelmann, R. Dunbar, S. Duncan, E. van Emde Boas, L. Maguire, B. Teasdale, and J. Thompson, ‘Cognition, Endorphins, and the Literary Response to Tragedy’, Cambridge Quarterly 46.3: 229-50.
2017E. van Emde Boas, ‘De karakterisering van Electra: een taalkundige benadering’, Lampas 50.1: 17–36.
2015E. van Emde Boas, ‘The Tutor’s Beard: Gender-Specific Communication and Speaker- Line Attribution in Greek Tragedy’, Mnemosyne 68.4: 543-68.
2010E. van Emde Boas and L. Huitink, ‘Syntax’, in A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language, ed. E.J. Bakker, pp. 134–150, Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Teaching and Supervision

Teaching
2020-2023Greek Poetry - BA (4x)
2020-2023Textual Analysis and Literary Theory - BA (3x)
2020-2023Greek Historical Linguistics / Greek Grammar - BA / MA (3x)
2020-2023Philological Commentary - MA (3x)
2020-2023Stylistics and Rhetoric - BA (3x)
2021-2023Dramatic Poetry - BA (2x)
2020-2023BA Project - BA (3x)
2021-2022Cultural History of Antiquity
Supervision
2020-2023BA Thesis Supervision (14x)
2023MA Thesis Supervision (2x)