Since January 2013 Esther Peeren is Associate Professor in Globalisation Studies at the Media Studies Department and vice-director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS). As a researcher, she is also associated with the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA).

Her research on globalisation focuses on how processes of globalisation influence the formation and representation (in literature, film, and television) of marginal subjectivities, on the underilluminated impact of globalisation on rural areas, and on the changing relationship between centres and peripheries. Other interests are popular culture, modern literary and cultural theory (in particular the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, poststructuralism, cultural analysis, and gender studies), and 20th- and 21st-century English and American literature.

Esther's most recent research project focuses on spectrality: the use of the metaphor of the ghost (and haunting) as a theoretical concept. Her newest monograph - The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) - examines the relationship between spectrality, precarity and agency in cultural representations of subjects perceived as ghostly. With Maria del Pilar Blanco of the University of Oxford she edited the volumes Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture (Continuum, 2010) and The Spectralities Reader (Bloomsbury, 2013). She has also published articles about spectrality in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction and The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures.

From 2006 to 2012 Esther was Assistant Professor in the department of Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where she taught in the BA and MA, as well as in the research-MA Cultural Analysis.

Esther studied English and Literary Studies at the University of Groningen and, with the support of a scholarship from NUFFIC and the British Council, completed an M.St. in Women's Studies at the University of Oxford. In December 2005 she received her PhD at the University of Amsterdam. Her dissertation was published in 2008 as Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond with Stanford University Press.

To contact Esther or to make an appointment, please send an email to: e.peeren@uva.nl.

The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

The Spectralities Reader: Ghosts and Haunting in Contemporary Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury, 2013)

Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture (Continuum, 2010)

Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond (Stanford University Press, 2008)

Representation Matters: (Re)Articulating Collective Identities in a Postcolonial World (Rodopi, 2010)

The Shock of the Other: Situating Alterities (Rodopi, 2007)

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