Jeroen Dewulf is director of the Dutch Studies Program (Queen Beatrix Professor) in the Dept. of German. He graduated with a Major in Dutch and German Studies and a Minor in Portuguese Studies at the University of Ghent, in Belgium, and holds a Ph.D. in German Literature from the University of Bern, in Switzerland. In his research, he focuses primarily on Dutch literature and cultural identity, Postcolonial Studies, and German-Swiss literature. He publishes in five different languages (English, Dutch, German, Portuguese, and French). He is member of the MLA Executive Committee of Netherlandic Studies, affiliated member of the Center for African Studies, core member of the Faculty Board of the Latin American Studies Graduate Group, member of the Executive Council of the American Association of Netherlandic Studies and board member of the Netherlands America University League. For his scholarly service, he was distinguished, in 1999, with the Quality Seal for Innovating Initiatives in the Field of Foreign Language Education by the European Union and he was awarded by the Cultural Foundation of the Swiss UBS-Bank for his research on Swiss-German literature. jdewulf@berkeley.edu http://dutch.berkeley.edu

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