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Christopher Joby
Christopher Joby is a professor in Dutch studies at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, and visiting scholar at the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. His research focuses on the intersection of the Dutch language and culture and other languages and cultures in a historical context. In 2015, he published The Dutch Language in Britain (1550–1702) (Leiden, Brill) and in 2020 The Dutch Language in Japan (1600–1900) (Leiden, Brill), which he completed as an Ailion fellow at Leiden University. In 2020, he was awarded a grant by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation to write a book on the reception of the Christian Gospel in seventeenth-century Taiwan. This will be published in 2023. He has also published several articles on the consequences of contact between Dutch missionaries and Indigenous Formosans in Taiwan. In January 2022, his monograph John Cruso of Norwich and Anglo-Dutch Literary Identity in the Seventeenth Century will be published by Boydell.
Contact: Wydział Anglistyki UAM, Collegium Heliodora Święcickiego, ul. Grunwaldzka 6, 60-780 Poznań, Poland.