Daan Hovens (D.)
Daan Hovens is an assistant professor at Maastricht University (FASoS, Department of Literature and Art). He is interested in linguistic diversity, border regions and industrial work environments.
Daan has a background in Scandinavian studies, journalism and European studies, which he studied at universities in Groningen, Uppsala, Göttingen and Osaka. He also worked for some time as a web editor and online journalist in the media world, including for the television programme Buitenhof.
From 2017 to 2020, Daan worked as a PhD candidate at Maastricht University (FASoS, expertise centre ITEM). His dissertation was an ethnography of a metal foundry in Limburg, where linguistic diversity among employees had changed significantly in a relatively short period of time. An innovative element was his posthumanist approach to human-machine interactions in the workplace.
From 2021 to 2023, Daan worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Maastricht University (Faculty of Law, expertise centre ITEM). For the Interreg project EMRLingua, he conducted research on existing needs and bottlenecks regarding education in the so-called "neighbour languages" (Dutch, French, German) and the organisation of border-regional school activities in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion.
Expertises
Multilingualism in border regions, multilingualism in industrial work environments, multilingualism and posthumanism
Career history
Work experience
2023 - present: Assistant professor at Maastricht University (FASoS)
2021 - 2023: Postdoctoral researcher for the Interreg project EMRLingua at Maastricht University (ITEM)
2021 (April - June): Online teacher and developer of the bachelor course "Language and Society 1: Dutch" at Groningen University
2017 - 2020: PhD candidate at Maastricht University (FASoS, ITEM)
2015 - 2016: Web editor for Buitenhof (a weekly political interview programme on Dutch public TV), VPRO (a Dutch public broadcasting organisation), and NPO Radio 1 (a Dutch public-service radio channel)
2015 - 2016: Online Japan correspondent for the website of VPRO
2013 - 2014: Teaching assistant for the BA European Languages and Cultures, Groningen University
2012: Trainee at the Green European Foundation (GEF), the political foundation of the European Greens in Brussels
Education
2018 - 2019: University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) for Dutch universities
2013 - 2015: International MA Journalism (Media Studies), Groningen University
2010 - 2012: MA Euroculture (European Studies), with a double degree from Göttingen University and Uppsala University
2006 - 2010: BA Scandinavian Languages and Cultures (including a minor programme in German Language and Culture), Groningen University