As PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, I examine how transgressive artistic and militant collectives used terror and abjection as affective-performative strategies in postwar Europe. With a Research MA in Theology & Religious Studies from the University of Amsterdam and a BA in History from Leiden University, my research sits at the intersection of (art) history and critical theory. My PhD project, Performing Terror: Art, Violence, and Affective Strategy in Postwar Europe, supervised by Dr. Noa Roei and Dr. Boris Noordenbos, mobilises thinkers such as Julia Kristeva, Achille Mbembe, Jacques Rancière and Stuart Hall to analyse how transgressive collectives reconfigured political sensibilities through practices of spectacle, bodily transgression, and violence. Among these are the Viennese Actionists, the Situationist International, and COUM Transmissions, as well as the Rote Armee Fraktion, Action Directe, and the Angry Brigade.

• 2026-present: Doctoral Candidate in Cultural Analysis (External), Department of Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• 2023-2025: Master of Arts in Theology & Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• 2020-2023: Bachelor of Arts in History, Leiden University, the Netherlands.