Dr A.M.C. Swinnen
Research profile
Research projects
Key projects
Second Money Stream
- NWO Internationalization in the Humanities: Live to Be a Hundred: Cultural Narratives of Longevity. With WAM Research Group (UK), Grup Dedal-Lit (Lleida, SP), NISAL (Linköping, SE), NWSA Aging and Ageism Caucus (USA), MLA Age Studies Discussion Group (USA), Austrian/German Aging Studies Group, Oct 1, 2010-Sep 30, 2013
- ZonMw Disability Studies in the Netherlands: Beyond Autonomy and Language – Towards a Disability Studies Perspective on Dementia. With Dr. Ruud Hendriks, Annette Hendrikx and Dr. Ike Kamphof, Sep 1, 2010-Jan 1, 2013
- NWO Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni: The Study of the Literary Imagination of Reminiscence in the Vollendungs- or Reifungsroman from a Genre and Gender perspective, Oct 1, 2006-Oct 1, 2010
Third Money Stream
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Sichting Doen (BankGiro Loterij Fonds) and Edmond Hustinx Stichting: Living Like an Artist / Kunstenaars en de kunst van het ouder worden. With Jan Van Eyck Academy (R. Straetmans and P. Fleskens), 2018-2019
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Cultural Participation Fund: Poëzie- en verhalenkabinet. With Jan Van Eyck Academy (P. Fleskens), community arts collective Soapera (B. Vanraes), and nursing homes De Beyart and Scharwyerveld, May 1, 2015-Mar 30, 2016
- Department for Elderly, Belgian Province of Limburg: Wel oud, niet out! De intimiteit en seksualiteit van ouderen. With Research Group Arck (L. Vesentini), PHL University College, Hasselt, Belgium, 2008-2009
Competitive Visiting Scholarships
- Fulbright scholarship for a 6-month research stay at the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics of Stony Brook University, 2014
Publications
Core publications:
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Swinnen, A. (2019). Reading ageism in “geezer and grump lit”: Responses to The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83, ¼. Journal of Aging Studies, 50, [100794]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2019.100794
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Swinnen, A. (2018). 'Writing to make ageing new': Dutch poets' understandings of late-life creativity. Ageing & Society, 38(3), 543-567. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X16001197
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Swinnen, A. (2018). Mumbling Beauty: Louise Bourgeois: Portraits of the artist as a much older woman. Feminist Media Studies, 18(1), 122-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1409995
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Swinnen, A. M. C. (2016). Healing words: Critical inquiry of poetry interventions in dementia care. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 15(6), 1377-1404. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301214560378
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Swinnen, A., & de Medeiros, K. (2018). “Play” and people living with dementia: A humanities-based inquiry of TimeSlips and the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project. Gerontologist, 58(2), 261-269. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnw196
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Swinnen, A. (2017). ‘The roses are long gone but the chrysanthemums are magnificent’: Late-life creativity in Quartet and Youth. . Journal of British Cinema and Television, 14(2), 162–178. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2017.0361
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Swinnen, A. M. C. (2015). Popularizing dementia: Public expressions and representations of forgetfulness. In A. Swinnen, & M. Schweda (Eds.), Popularizing dementia: Public expressions and representations of forgetfulness (pp. 9-20). Transcript.
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Swinnen, A. (2019). Late-Life Creativity. In D. Gu, & M. Duprez (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_268-1
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Swinnen, A., Honné, H., Malafei, I., & Stieber, M. (2020). "Care is What You Miss from the Organization": Experiences of Pre- and Post-retirement Academic Staff at Maastricht University.
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Bal, J., Franco, A., Honné, H., van Oosten, E., & Swinnen, A. (2019). The Art of Resilience: Professional Artists’ Experiences of Continuing Creative Practices in Place. Jan van Eyck Akademie.
A.M.C. Swinnen
Professor
Letteren en Kunst, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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