Nadine Akkerman is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her published work has been concerned with the life and letters of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, and early modern espionage, and she has made a major contribution to studies of that Queen, the Thirty Years War, and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, by revisiting and editing original manuscript sources and letters.
Career
Akkerman studied English Language and Literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her 2008 PhD included a survey of the letters of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. She has been a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, and the University of Birmingham.
On 11 August 2016 Akkerman and Daniel Smith staged a production of The Masque of Queens at New College, Oxford.
Selected publications
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). 'Unlocking History through Automated Virtual Unfolding of Sealed Documents Imaged by X-ray Microtomography', Nature Communications, 12:1184 (2021), with Jana Dambrogio, Amanda Ghassaei et al. Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Courtly Rivals in the Hague: Elizabeth of Bohemia and Amalia van Solms (Venlo: VanSpijk/Rekafa, 2015). 'The Goddess of the Household: The Masquing Politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford', in Nadine Akkerman & Birgit Houben (eds), The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-waiting across Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2014). The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, 3 volumes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011-2016)
References
External links
Dr. Nadine Akkerman: literary historian, author, and educator
Lisa Jardine Memorial Lecture 2023 - Nadine Akkerman: Archival pursuits: unediting lives and letters
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni
Dutch biographers
Dutch women biographers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of Leiden University