Irene J. F. de Jong (born 1957) is a classicist and professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam.
[3] She studied at the University of Amsterdam from 1978 until 1982, and taught Classics at the Stedelijk Gymnasium in Utrecht in 1982–83.
She wrote her dissertation, 'Narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad',[3] at the University of Amsterdam under a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) from 1985 until 1987.
[1] She then continued to work at the University of Amsterdam, first as a postdoc and later as a research fellow.
[5] In 2015, De Jong was also selected as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.