Dr. Demmy R. Verbeke
Contact
De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Kardinaal Mercierplein 2 (PO Box 3200)
B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Tel. + 32 16 32 63 45
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Demmy Verbeke
After
receiving his BA (1999), MA (2001) and Teaching Qualification (2001) in
Classics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Demmy Verbeke was appointed
doctoral research fellow at the same university (2001-05). During his post-graduate
years, he became fellow of the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae, provided
editorial assistance to Humanistica Lovaniensia, was a visiting
scholar at Clare College, Cambridge, and conducted research in Agen, Antwerp,
Brussels, Leiden, London, Madrid, Paris, and Rome.
Upon completion of his PhD, Demmy Verbeke was active as project manager
for a cultural heritage organization in Antwerp before accepting a Francqui
Foundation Fellowship of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. Thanks
to the support of the BAEF, he was able to spend the academic year 2006-07
as post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of History at Harvard
University. In 2007, he also acted as Medieval and Renaissance Studies Distinguished
Guest Lecturer at East Carolina University (Greenville, NC).
Between September 2007 and September 2009, Demmy Verbeke was post-doctoral
research fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance in the University
of Warwick, where he contributed to the Renaissance Cultural Crossroads
project and taught in the MA in the Culture of the European Renaissance.
He furthermore spent part of 2009 as a visiting research fellow at the Huygens
Institute in The Hague, supported by a Researcher Exchange Programme Award
of the British Council.
Demmy Verbeke returned to his alma mater in the fall of 2009 and
is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the De Wulf-Mansion Centre
for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, where he teaches Renaissance
philosophy and continues his study of the Classical Tradition and the intellectual
history of the Low Countries (1450-1650).
Full CV (with list of publications)