Jeroen Dewulf is director of the Dutch Studies Program (Queen Beatrix Chair) in the Dept. of German. He graduated in Dutch and German Philology at the University of Ghent, in Belgium. He holds a Master's degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Porto, in Portugal, and a Ph.D. in German Literature from the University of Bern, in Switzerland. He has taught Dutch Studies, German Cultural History and Comparative Literature in Portugal (University of Porto) and Brazil (University of São Paulo) and was visiting professor at the University of Antwerp. His areas of specialization are European Studies, particularly related to (multicultural) identity in the Benelux and Switzerland, and Postcolonial Studies, in particular Dutch, German and Portuguese colonial history and literature, as well as issues related to migration, race and hybridity. He has also focused on contemporary Swiss literature, publishing a monograph on the Swiss writer Hugo Loetscher (Peter Lang Verlag, 1999) and editing a collection of essays on the same author (Diogenes Verlag, 2005). He recently published a post-colonial study on Brazil (Neue Zürcher Zeitung Verlag, 2007). He is member of the MLA Executive Committee of Netherlandic Studies, affiliated member of the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley and member of the Executive Council of the American Association of Netherlandic Studies as well as the Netherlands America University League. For his scholarly service, he was distinguished, in 1999, with the Quality Seal for Innovating Initiatives in the Field of Foreign Language Education by the European Union and he was awarded by the Cultural Foundation of the Swiss UBS-Bank for his research on Swiss-German literature. jdewulf@berkeley.edu

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