Rate My Professor Jolanda Taylor

Her research specializations include Dutch-language literature and culture, (im)migration, trauma and memory, travel, the family, and contemporary fiction, with a recent focus on trans-generational memory of the Holocaust and Occupation, the family in Dutch literature and culture, and issues surrounding migration and newcomers. Key publications comprise the monograph A Family Occupation: Children of the War and the Memory of World War II in Dutch Literature of the 1980s (Amsterdam University Press, 2009), "W.F. Hermans and Wittgenstein: De tranen der acacia's as mediation" (Neophilologus, 1994), "Liberal Education and Institutional Identity: The University of Wisconsin-Madison Experience" (Liberal Education, 2010), a chapter on Hella S. Haasse in Women Writing in Dutch (1994), and "The Occupied Mind: Remembering and Forgetting" (1990). Taylor served as Faculty Director of the Wisconsin International Scholars Program for 21 years, fostering cross-disciplinary global perspectives among undergraduates through mentorship, language study, and study abroad. She has held prominent roles such as Chair of the L&S Curriculum Committee, inaugural Chair of the University Curriculum Committee, and co-chair of the University International Travel Committee. In 1989-1990, she received the Fulbright U.S. Scholar award for research at the University of Utrecht.