@jannekevanderleest

Janneke van der Leest obtained a MA in Comparative Arts – specialities: music and literature – and a MA in Theology, both at Radboud University (RU), Nijmegen (the Netherlands). She is curriculum developer at Radboud Academy (RU) and works on a PhD-project entitled “Rock and Romantic Mourning. Presentation and Representation of Young Deceased Rock Stars”. Relevant publications:

• “The Pastoral Elegy Rocks. Shelley’s Revisions of an Ancient Genre Open the Way to Honour Brian Jones”, in: ‘Scenari, Rivista semestrale di filosofia contemporanea’, no. 14 (2021), pp 103-130,
• “De 27 Club. Hoe een ontmaskerde mythe gevestigd blijft” [The 27 Club. How a debunked myth perpetuates], in: De Uil van Minerva. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis en Wijsbegeerte van de Cultuur, vol. 32 (2019), pp 182-194.
• “Romanticism in the Park: Mick Jagger Reading Shelley” in: James Rovira (ed.), Rock and Romanticism. Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 (Lexington Books: Lanham, Maryland 2018), pp 19-34.