Liesbeth Minnaard is Assistant Professor in Literary Studies at Leiden University. She specialises in interculturality in literature and in the cultural effects of migration and globalisation. Her publications include New Germans, New Dutch: Literary Interventions (Amsterdam University Press, 2008) and several articles on intercultural and postcolonial issues in German and Dutch literature. Currently she is co-editing a volume on Literature, Language and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries (forthcoming, 2012).