Alisa van de Haar is an Assistant Professor of French Literature and Cultureat Leiden University (the Netherlands). In 2018, she obtained her PhD cum laude from the University of Groningen. Van de Haar is the author of The Golden Mean of Languages: Forging Dutch and French in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1540-1620 (Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2019). Her work mainly focuses on historical and literary multilingualism, language learning, and discussions on the vernacular languages, specifically in the context of the early modern Low Countries.