Prof. Douve Wesselin FOKKEMA
Country of residence: the Netherlands
Birth date: 04.05.1931
Award date: 07.12.1995
UŚ Senate resolution date: 07.12.1995
Application date: 28.03.1995
Applying unit: Council of the UŚ Department of Philology
Professor of comparative literature and literary theory at the University of Utrecht, researcher of Sinology, Dutch Studies, American Studies, the Era of Western European Modernism and Postmodernism. Member of the Academia Europaea, President of the Dutch Association for General Literary Studies (1981–1986), President of International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA, 1985–1988). Contributor to the research centres in Brazil, China and India, and diplomat at the Dutch Embassy in Beijing (1961–1968). Lecturer at many universities, incl. universities in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Barcelona, Berlin, Bratislava, Finland (Helsinki, Tampere), Göttingen, Lisbon, Munich, Moscow, Paris, Skopje, Venice, Australia (Canberra), Argentina and Brazil (Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro), China (Beijing, Shanghai, Zhongshan), India (Bhubaneswar, Berhampur, Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata, Patiala), Indonesia (Jakarta), Japan (Kyoto), South Korea, Taiwan (Taipei), South Africa, Syria (Damascus), Canada (Toronto), the USA (Berkley, Bloomington, Cambridge, Columbia, Princetown, Yale) and Poland.
