Dinah Wouters works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Huygens ING on the project ‘TransLatin: The Transnational Impact of Latin Theatre from the Early Modern Netherlands, A Qualitative and Computational Analysis.’ She studied Literature and Linguistics of Latin and English at Ghent University, specializing in Historical Literature and Linguistics. She also obtained a degree in the study of Gender and Diversity. She received her PhD in 2019 with a dissertation on the use of allegory and exegesis in the vision books of the twelfth-century prophetess Hildegard of Bingen.
She was one of the founders of the international research network RELICS, which offers a platform for research on the cosmopolitan role of Latin in the history of European literatures. She also helped establish and is now the coordinator of the group’s open access academic journal JOLCEL.
Within the TransLatin project, she studies the transnational impact of theatre written and performed in Latin in the early modern Netherlands.
Research projects
Publications
- contribution to journal (article)
- contribution to journal (review)
- contribution to edited volume
- book (author)
- conference participation
2023
Wouters, D. (2023). Comoedia Sacra and Comedia Nueva: Defending Innovation in Comedy from the Northern Humanists to Lope de Vega. Medievalia et Humanistica, 47, 19-39.
2022
Wouters, D. (2022). Revisiting Potiphar’s Wife: A European Perspective on a Character in Early Modern Drama. Medievalia et Humanistica, 47, 81-106.
2021
Wouters, D. (2021). The Dimensions of Allegorical Form in Hildegard of Bingen’s Vision Books. Mittelalter: Hypotheses, 4, 109-116. https://doi.org/10.26012/mittelalter-26467
2020
Wouters, D. (2020). Drama and Debate: Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo virtutum in the Context of Allegorical Debate Literature. European Medieval Drama, 24, 165-184. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.EMD.5.121757
2019
Wouters, D. & de Gussem, J. (2019). Language and Thought in Hildegard of Bingen’s Visionary Trilogy: Close and Distant Readings of a Thinker’s Development. Parergon, 36(1), 31-60.
2018
Wouters, D. (2018). ‘Nisi per Nomina’: Language as the medium of thought in Hildegard of Bingen’s thinking. Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique, 113(1-2).
2017
Wouters, D. (2017). Sophia in de fluwelen driehoek: Feminisme, genderstudies en gelijkekansenbeleid in België. Historica, 40(1), 26-28.
Wouters, D. (2017). Woman Personified: A Theoretical Framework for the Female Gender of Personifications in Medieval Literature. Medieval Feminist Forum, 53(2).
2015
Wouters, D. (2015). Envisioning Divine Didactics: Didactic Strategies in the Visionary Trilogy of Hildegard of Bingen. Sacris Erudiri, 54.
2023
Wouters, D. (2023). Hildegarde de Bingen. Opuscules monastiques. Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique, 117(3-4), 838-841.
2022
Wouters, D. (2022). Bernard Silvestris. De kosmos geschreven: Een twaalfde-eeuws scheppingsverhaal. Hermeneus, 94(2).
Wouters, D. (2022). Ineke van 't Spijker, Homo Interior and Vita Socialis: Patristic Patterns and Twelfth-Century Reflections. Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, 135(4), 143-144. https://doi.org/10.5117/TvG2022.4.010.WOUT
2021
Wouters, D. (2021). Le theatre néo-latin en France au XVIe siècle. European Medieval Drama, 43.
2015
Wouters, D. (2015). Scivias. Ken de Wegen, vertaling en inleiding door Mieke Kock-Rademakers. Ons Geestelijk Erf, 86(4).
2022
Wouters, D. Noens, T. & Velle, T. (2022). A Decisive Meeting in Department X. In J. Hansen, & I. Nilsson (Eds.), Critical Storytelling: Experiences of Power Abuse in Academia (pp. 18-30). (Critical Storytelling; Vol. 7). Brill. https://brill.com/view/book/9789004521025/BP000011.xml
2023
Dinah Wouters (2023). Humor en heilige verhalen in de zestiende-eeuwse schoolkomedie. 04-11-2023. (Lustrumsymposium Collegium Classicum )
Dinah Wouters (2023). Allegorical and unnatural narratology. 01-11-2023. (Religious Narrative in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Literary Cultures )
Dinah Wouters (2023). The Biblical History Play. 08-09-2023. (Historical Drama in Early Modern Europe (1550-1650))
2022
Dinah Wouters (2022). Dutch Humanist Playwrights and Transnational Patterns in Dramatic Narrative. 13-12-2022.
Dinah Wouters (2022). Biblical narrative on stage: A visualization of dramatic structure in transnational early modern drama. 09-11-2022.
Robin Buning, J. Bloemendal, Dinah Wouters, Andrea Peverelli, Jirsi Reinders (2022). Presentation of the TransLatin project. 01-09-2022. (Transnational Drama within and beyond Europe, 1450-1750)
Dinah Wouters (2022). Cornelius Schonaeus’ Sacred Comedies in the ‘Second Roman Renaissance’. 01-08-2022. (18th Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies)
Dinah Wouters (2022). Typology, Time, and Transnational Exchange between Georgius Macropedius and Jorge de Montemayor. 02-04-2022. (Renaissance Society of America)
Dinah Wouters (2024). The Egyptian Joseph and the Jesuit Baroque: How Politics Enters the Joseph Narrative in Seventeenth-Century Drama. 24-04-2024. (Latin Literature of the Baroque Period = Lateinische Literatur des Barock)
2021
Dinah Wouters (2024). Comoedia Sacra and Comedia Nueva: Traces of Dutch Humanist Comedy in a Biblical Play by Lope de Vega. 24-04-2024. (Transnational Aspects of Early Modern Drama )
Dinah Wouters (2024). ‘Ecce autem iterum’: Comoedia Sacra and Nueva Comedia. 24-04-2024. (Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting )
Dinah Wouters (2024). The Jesuit Monopoly on Revenge in Joseph Plays. 24-04-2024. (Revisiting Revenge)
2020
Robin Buning, J. Bloemendal, Dinah Wouters, Judith Brouwer (2020). TransLatin: the Transnational Impact of Neo-Latin Dramas from the Low Countries, 1500-1750. 22-04-2020. (Huygens ING Webinar series)