Evelien started following the work of Alain Marchandisse, Université de Liège, Sciences historiques.
Evelien started following the work of Anthony Grafton, Princeton University, History.
Evelien started following the work of Luca Baraldi, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di storie e metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali.
Faculty Member, French Studies and Modern Languages
Lecturer; Associate Researcher at Laboratoire Patrimoine-Littérature-Histoire ERASME, Université de Toulouse Le Mirail.
About
Born in the Netherlands to one Dutch, one American parent, Evelien Chayes received an influential classical education at the Amsterdam Barlaeus Gymnasium. After completing under-graduate studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) and the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III; she pursued post-graduate studies at the UvA (cum laude) with a specialisation in medieval and early modern literature.
Her research at the Amsterdam Institute for Culture and History, with research grants also for sojourns in France and Italy led to a PhD at UvA in 2007. Her thesis on sixteenth-century Neolatin and French lapidaries in the light of their classical and medieval traditions and Italian examples of literary aesthetics and natural philosophy, received The Hansa Prize in Humanities and Language and has evolved into the book L’Eloquence des Pierres précieuses, published by Honoré Champion in 2010.
Before coming to Cyprus, she taught at the Université Paul Verlaine, Metz.
Her scholarship concentrates on late medieval and early modern literature, book history and intellectual history, principally in France, Italy and the Low Countries. She is particularly interested in heterodox early modern intellectual networks, especially academies, and the circulation of (printed and manuscript) texts, in relation with the eastern Mediterranean world.
