Academic Profile and Research Interests

My main research interests lie in the relationship between narrative and cultures of science. I am interested in how new technologies are received and which new ideas are formed as the result of scientific discovery. I am also interested in how narrative technologies shape storytelling. I write about dystopian fiction, science fiction, computer games and serials.

In December 2012 I successfully defended my PhD project entitled A History of Our Connected Future: Dystopia, Telecommunication Technology and Space. It closely analyzes the structures of dystopian science fiction which employ telecommunication networks as a motif, and addresses both the frequency with which dystopia and telecommunication technology co-occur, and the epistemological changes that this might indicate. This project was supervised by the thesis director, Dr. J. Goggin (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/j.goggin), and the official promotor, Prof. C.P. Lindner (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/c.p.lindner).

Education

PhD Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam, 2008-2012  

Research Master Literary Studies (cum laude), University of Amsterdam, 2006-2007

Master English Language and Culture (cum laude), Free University Amsterdam, 2005-2006

Bachelor English Language and Culture (cum laude), Free University Amsterdam, 2002-2005

Publications

Forthcoming 2014: Serialization in Popular Culture, co-edited with Dr. Rob Allen, under contract with Routledge.

"Just One More Turn: Player Control and Addiction." Ctrl-Alt-Play: Essays on Control in Video Gaming . Ed. Matthew Wysocki. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. Print. 
"Nineteen Eighty-Four and '1984': Apple's Use of Dystopian Poetics in iCommodification." Journal of Literature and Science 5.1 (2012): 98-124. Web.   
"Playing at Resisting Capitalism: BioShock  as the Reification of Neoliberal Ideals." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture  12.3 (2012): n. page. Web.

Presentations

"Desert Planets and Giant Sandworms: Hyperdiegetic Narrative Levels in SF." Paper presentation at the International Conference on Narrative 2009 , Birmingham.
"The Story of War: Narrative Technlogy in H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and Miniture Wargaming."Paper presentation at the British Society for Literature and Science 2011 conference, Newcastle. 
"Business is Good at the Market Place's Demise: BioShock and the Representation of the End of Capitalism."Paper presentation at the  British Society for Literature and Science 2012  conference, Cambridge.

Teaching

This year (2013 - 2014) I am teaching The Research Seminar and Literature 3.

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