Irene J. F. de Jong (born 1957) is a classicist and professor of Ancient Greek at the

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. She is known for her pioneering work on

narratology Narratology is the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect human perception. It is an anglicisation of French ''narratologie'', coined by Tzvetan Todorov (''Grammaire du Décaméron'', 1969). Its theoretical li ...

and

Ancient Greek literature Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic Greece, Archa ...

. She is a

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Career

Irene de Jong was born in

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in 1957. She studied at the University of Amsterdam from 1978 until 1982, and taught Classics at the Stedelijk Gymnasium in

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in 1982–83. In 1984 she worked as a research fellow at the

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. The TLG was founded in 1972 by Marianne McDonald (a graduate student at the time and now a professor of theater and classics at the University of Cali ...

. She wrote her dissertation, '''Narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad, at the University of Amsterdam under a grant from the

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(NWO) from 1985 until 1987. She then continued to work at the University of Amsterdam, first as a postdoc and later as a research fellow. Since 2002 she has held the chair of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. De Jong has been member of the

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since 2007. In 2015, De Jong was also selected as member of the

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. In 2019 she was elected a foreign member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Unive ...

. She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2022.

Selected publications

* ''Narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad''. Amsterdam 1987. Nachdruck Amsterdam 2004 * ''Narrative in drama: the art of the Euripidean messenger-speech''. Leiden 1991 (''Mnemosyne'' Supplement 116) * with J. P. Sullivan: ''Modern critical theory and classical literature''. Leiden 1994 (''Mnemosyne'' Supplement 130) * ''A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey''. Cambridge 2001 * ''Studies in ancient Greek narrative. Vol. 1: Narrators, narratees, and narratives in ancient Greek literature''. Leiden 2004 (''Mnemosyne'' Supplement 257) * with Albert Rijksbaron: ''Sophocles and the Greek language: aspects of diction, syntax and pragmatics''. Leiden 2006 (''Mnemosyne'' Supplement 269) * ''Studies in ancient Greek narrative. Vol. 2: Time in ancient Greek literature''. Leiden 2007 (''Mnemosyne'' Supplement 291) * ''Studies in ancient Greek narrative. Vol. 3: Space in ancient Greek literature''. Leiden 2012 (''Mnemosyne'' Supplement 39) * ''Homer Iliad Book XXII''. Cambridge 2012 * ''I classici e la narratologia. Guida alla lettura degli autori greci e latini''. Roma 2017.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jong, Irene de 1957 births Living people University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam Dutch classical scholars Women classical scholars People from Leiden Scholars of ancient Greek literature Members of Academia Europaea Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences