Hendrikje Dorussen

hendrikje dorussen
DPhil Candidate
St Anne's College
hendrikje.dorussen@st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Thesis title: Linguistic Crises: Imaginings of Language Endangerment in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Production

Supervisor: Professor 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. 

 

My research is fully funded by the Rupert Murdoch Studentship. 

 

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

 

Research and conference papers: 

  • "(Dis)embodied Mother Tongues and postcolonial 'l/anguish'." OCCT Graduate Symposium, May 2026.
  • "Eqqumiitsuliorneq: Haptic Reading, Climate Representation and the Book-Objects of Nancy Campbell." FRAME: Journal of Literary Studies, June 2025 (38.1). https://www.frameliteraryjournal.com/38-1-page-to-planet/38-1-hendrikje-dorussen/
  • "Surface and Untranslatability in the Book-Objects of Nancy Campbell." Northwestern University Screen Cultures Graduate Student Conference, October 2024.