Recent courses: Existentialism in Philosophy and Literature, Film Philosophy, Rethinking the Sublime, Methods in the Humanities 1, Introduction to Film Studies, and Introduction to Philosophy 1.

Dr. Allard den Dulk is also a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities of the VU University Amsterdam. His work analyzes explorations of meaning and engagement in contemporary literature and film as critical reaffirmations of existentialist ideas. He is the author of Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer: A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature (Bloomsbury, 2015), and editor of Reading David Foster Wallace Between Philosophy and Literature (Manchester University Press, 2022). His research has appeared in different academic journals and collections (see below). Currently, he is finishing a book titled Wallace’s Existentialist Intertexts: Comparative Readings with the Fiction of Kafka, Dostoevsky, Camus and Sartre. His next project will be on ‘Reality, Identity and Others in the Work of Contemporary Women Directors: Analyses of the Films of Mati Diop, Alice Rohrwacher, Céline Sciamma, and Maryam Touzani.’