Ann Rigney

Ann Rigney (Dublin, 9 December 1957) is an Irish/Dutch cultural scholar and Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University.

[citation needed] Most of Rigney's research deals with the interactive dynamics between narrative (in literature and other media) and cultural memory.

[2] Her early work dealt with narrative and imaginative strategies in history-writing and historical novels, with special attention to writers like Jules Michelet, Thomas Carlyle and Sir Walter Scott.

This led to the establishment of the Network in Transnational Memory Studies (NITMES), which won a €59,000 grant from NWO, the Netherlands national funding agency for scientific research, in 2015.

[17] She is also an elected member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen), and of Academia Europaea.