Ben Bert F. De Witte

Ben De Witte holds a PhD in Comparative Literature (Rutgers University) and teaches Dutch language and culture. He has research interests in Dutch in the world, language pedagogy, translation, and literary studies. Before joining Columbia, Ben taught at Rutgers, F.I.T., and the University of Leuven. His research on queer visibility in modern drama has appeared in Theatre Research International and Modern Drama. He has also published in the areas of literary modernism, intercultural performance (with a chapter in Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sexuality) and on Surinamese writer Astrid Roemer (in Bloomsbury's Other Fridas: The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists). Ben is currently preparing a student edition of Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding for Methuen Drama. Together with João Nemi Neto, he translated In the Name of Desire, the first English edition of João Silvério Trevisan’s gay coming‐of‐age novel Em nome do desejo (Sundial House). He is a recipient of awards by the Belgian American Educational Foundation and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. He is on the editorial board of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies.