135:. Renders is cofounder of the Jan Hanlo-Essayprijs, until 2018 jury member of the Plutarch Award for American biographies and since then a board member of the Nederlandse Biografie Prijs for Dutch biographies. He was, from the beginning in 2009 until 2018, also on the Board of Directors and since then a member of the Advisory Council at Biographers International Organization.
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Renders' main argument is that "biography as a research area belongs to history." Therefore, it should be studied using a historical methodology. In order to achieve serious academic attention, Renders argues, scholars of biography studies should "present a more consistent and broadly based research
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s monthly book column from 2004 to 2015, and started a monthly column on biographies in 2016 with his "Een Leven in
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methodology and theoretical framework." His major publications focus on the difference between biography and Life
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vijf 5tigers vijftig jaar; een bloemlezing uit het werk van Remco
Campert, Jan Elburg, Gerrit Kouwenaar, Lucebert, Bert Schierbeek
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Moll, Maarten; Storm, Arie; Arensman, Dirk-Jan; Mertens, Dieuwertje; Renders, Hans (27 December 2016).
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from 1990 to 2002, and reviewed books written about journalism, history and media history for
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Inktpatronen. De Tweede
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De zeven hoofdzonden van de biografie. Over biografen, historici en journalisten
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Verijdelde dromen. Een surrealitisch avontuur tussen de Stijl en Cobra.
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Fear of Theory.Towards a New Theoretical Justification of Biography
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Renders received a doctorate for his biography of Jan Hanlo,
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Gevaarlijk Drukwerk. Een Vrije Uitgeverij in Oorlogstijd
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Braak, een kleine revolutie tussen Cobra en Atonaal
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