Alisa van de Haar

Alisa van de Haar is Assistant Professor in historical French Literature. Her research focuses on the multilingual situation in the early modern Low Countries, relations between French and Dutch literature, language and migration, and historical language education. Her book The Golden Mean of Languages: Forging Dutch and French in the Early Modern Low Countries (1540-1620) was published by Brill in 2019. From 2022 to 2026, she conducts a research project titled ‘Languages as Lifelines: The Multilingual Coping Strategies of Refugees from the Early Modern Low Countries’, funded by the Dutch Research Council (Veni scheme).