Dr. Tom Deneire

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Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae
Latijnse literatuurstudie / Latin Literature
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, office 06.05 (PO Box 3311)
B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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Tom Deneire obtained his MA in Classics from Leuven University (KULeuven) in 2003 with a thesis on the style of Cicero’s Pro Archia. Turning towards Neo-Latin studies for his PhD research, he studied Justus Lipsius and his unique prose style, resulting in the dissertation “Laconicae Cuspidis Instar”. The Correspondence of Justus Lipsius (1547-1606): 1598. Critical Edition with Introduction, Annotation and Stylistic Study (Leuven: available online).

During his PhD research Tom Deneire held the position of research and teaching assistant, first with the Department of Classics (Latin philology section) later with the Department of Literary Studies (Latin literature). Since 2007 he has been the editorial assistant of Humanistica Lovaniensia. Journal for Neo-Latin Studies. After he obtained his doctoral degree in May 2009, he was granted a one-year job as postdoctoral researcher at Leuven University, temporarily filling in for the courses Latin Linguistics II and Latin Rhetoric and Stylistics. Since January 2010 Tom Deneire is also employed as postdoctoral researcher at the Dutch Huygens Institute in The Hague. In October 2010 he was appointed assistant professor (‘buitengewoon gastdocent’) at Leuven University for the master course Latin Rhetoric and Stylistics.

Tom Deneire’s present research falls within the NWO-project Dynamics of Neo-Latin and the Vernacular. The Role of Self-Representation, Self-Presentation and Imaging in the Field of Cultural Transmission, Exemplified by the German Reception of Dutch Poets in a ‘Bilingual’ Context. More information can be found here.

Apart from this Tom Deneire’s research interests include Latin rhetoric, style and poetry (from ancient times to present-day Latin), and modern literary theory and its application to Neo-Latin studies. Obviously previous fields of study, such as Cicero’s Pro Archia and Neo-Latin correspondence, especially by Justus Lipsius, still figure in his work.

Lipsius, J. (2006). Lipsius tegen Becanus: Over het Nederlands als oertaal: editie, vertaling en interpretatie van zijn brief aan Hendrik Schotti (19 december 1598). (Deneire, Tom, Ed. Van Hal, Toon, Ed.). Florivallis, Amersfoort, 2006.

(2006). Musae saeculi XX latinae: acta selecta. (Sacré, D., Ed., Tusiani, J., Ed., Deneire, T., Ed.). Brussel: Belgisch historisch instituut te Rome.

Deneire, T. (2006). Four Latin "poeti e guerrieri" of the Great War. Musae saeculi XX latinae: acta selecta / Ed. quae curav. Theodoricus Sacré et Iosephus Tusiani, iuvanti Thoma Deneire. Conventus patrocinantibus Academia Latinitati Fovendae atque Instituto Historico Belgico in Urbe. Romae, 2001 (pp. 107-132). Brussel: Belgisch historisch instituut te Rome.

Deneire, T. (2006). Justus Lipsius's Admiranda (1598) and the Officina Plantiniana: mixing otium with negotium. De gulden passer, 84, 159-176.

Deneire, T. (2007). An overlooked letter from Justus Lipsius to Abraham Ortelius, 6 August 1593, dealing with Jacobus Monavius's Inscriptio Musaeoli. Lias. Sources and documents relating to the early modern history of ideas, 34 (1), 11-19.

Deneire, T., De Landtsheer, J. (2008). Lipsiana in the Waller manuscript collection: in particular an unknown letter from Johannes Sambucus (1582) and a letter to Janus Dousa (1583) reconsidered. Humanistica Lovaniensia. Journal of Neo-Latin studies, 57, 209-226.

Deneire, T. (2009). The Latin Works of Two Poets From Poperinge: Joannes Bartholomeus Roens and Petrus Wenis. In: Sacré D., Papy J. (Eds.), Syntagmatia. Essays on Neo-Latin. Literature in Honour of Monique Mund-Dopchie and Gilbert Tournoy (pp. 709-721) Leuven University Press.

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