Dr Josje Weusten (J.L.)
Research profile
I hold an MA cultural studies and PhD in literary studies/gender studies.
I am an alumnus of the Faber Academy Writing Programme in London (2021-2022), at which I have just finished the manuscript of my first novel and I am currently working on my second one.
Key publications
Weusten, J. L. (2011). De Idylle voorbij : verbeelding van moederschap in Nederlandse literatuur 1980 tot 2010. [Doctoral Thesis, Maastricht University]. Universitaire Pers Maastricht. https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20111125jw
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Weusten, J. L. (2011). Narrative Constructions of Motherhood and Autism. Reading embodied Language beyond binary Oppositions. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 5(1), 53-70. https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2011.4
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Weusten, J. L. (2010). An attack on a romanticized discourse on motherhood? Representations of murderous mothers in Dutch novels. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, 1(1), 185-195.
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Weusten, J. L. (2009). Een kritiek op een geromantiseerd vertoog over moederschap. De moordende moeders in Een hart van steen en Met onbekende bestemming. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 12(2), 3-14.
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Recent publications
Other publications
Some of my poems and prose were published in these anthologies