Dr M.S.J.M. Kardaun

Marietje Kardaun is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. She has been in the Board of Editors of PSYART, a Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts from 2015-2020, is a member of the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (Onderzoeksschool Literatuurwetenschap), member of the Turmgruppe für Jung'sche Psychologie Zürich and member of the Asociación de Psicología Analítica de Valencia. Studied Latin and Greek at Leiden University (1987, cum laude). Gained PhD in 1993 with a psychoanalytic (Freudian) interpretation of Petronius' Satyricon. Wrote a monograph on the concept of ‘mimesis’ in Greek philosophy for the Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen (Der Mimesisbegriff in der griechischen Antike, Amsterdam etc.: North-Holland 1993), and many articles of mainly Jungian literary criticism. Together with her colleague Joke Spruyt she edited The Winged Chariot: Collected Essays on Plato & Platonism in Honour of L.M. de Rijk, Leiden etc.: Brill 2000 (= Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, vol. 100). In 2011 she published Fighting the Angel: Biblical and Mythical Encounters with Demons and Deities. Roskilde: EyeCorner. ISBN: 978-8792633118 (https://www.eyecorner.press/books/fighting-the-angel). Recurring themes in her work are: theoretical aspects of literary criticism; mythology; philosophy of art; Platonism; Romantic German poetry (Goethe, Herder, Eichendorff); depth psychological Bible interpretation; dreams in mythology and religion.

2015 – 2020: Editor of PsyArt, an Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts

January 2011: Certificate BKO (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs)

Dec. 2010: Certificate of Cambridge Proficiency in English (Grade A)

2010 – 2019: Director of the PsyArt-Foundation, Gainesville

Since 2000: Tenured Assistant Professor (UD-1)

Since 1997: Double blind peer reviewing for PsyArt, an Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts

Since 1994: member of The Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (Onderzoeksschool Literatuurwetenschap)

Aug. 1994 – 2000: Tenured Assistant Professor (UD-2), Department of Literature and Art, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Aug. 1993 – Aug. 1994: Teacher and Lecturer (Toegevoegd Docent), Department of Literature and Art, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Nov. 1993: PhD in Literature, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Title dissertation: Petrons Satyricon. Eine tiefenpsychologische Untersuchung

Since 1990: Member of Turmgruppe für Jungsche Psychologie Zuerich

In 1990 and 1991: teacher of Latin and Greek at Evangelische Mittelschule Schiers-CH

April 1987 – Febr. 1989: C.G. Jung-Institut Zürich

Febr. 1987: MA Classics, full honours degree (Klassieke Taal- en Letterkunde, cum laude), Leiden University

May 1985: First Degree Teaching License (eerstegraads lesbevoegdheid)

Summer 1984: Cours Universitaire d’Eté, niveau supérieur, at the Sorbonne, Paris. Subjects: philosophie, linguistique and phonétique

Summer 1978: Gymnasium, St. Ursula-Lyceum Roermond

Managerial and administrative roles that I occupy / have occupied at the UM include:

- Member of the Board of Appeal for Examinations (College van Beroep voor de Examens) of the UM from 1 July 2021

- Member of the Studium Generale Committee from spring 2021

- Coordinator of the UM-wide minor ‘Great Thinkers’ from 2017 to present

- Member of the Examination Board at UCM from 2003 – 2004

- Chair of the Redactieraad Observant from 2000 – 2002

- Member of the Redactieraad Observant from 1996 – 2000

- Member of the development team of the Arts & Culture programme within the BaMa structure from 2000 – 2001

- Secretary of the department of Literature and Art from 1997 – 2003

- Chair of the Examination Board at FASoS from 1995 – 1999

- Member of the Examination Board at FASoS from 1994 – 1995

- Chair of the Programme Committee at FASoS from 1994 – 1995

- Member of the Programme Committee at FASoS from 1993 – 1994