I am a lecturer in the department of Literary & Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, where I currently teach courses in critical and cultural theory, decolonial studies, and gender & sexuality studies.
I obtained my PhD - a study where, through the work of Sylvia Wynter, Raymond Williams, and Laurent Berlant, I investigate genres of spatialization and their affective and political function in popular cultural imaginations of non-urbanized North American geographies – at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) as part of the ERC-funded project ‘Imagining the Rural in a Globalizing World’. I work across transnational and interdisciplinary fields of decolonial and queer studies, and my research interests are mainly concerned with the relations between epistemology, affect, ambivalence, and politics as well as the comparative cultural analysis of settler colonialism, cultural geography, sexuality, race, genre, rural studies, and pop culture.
You can find my writing in PhiloSOPHIA, Collateral Journal for Cross-Cultural Close Reading, Junctions, Armada: Tijdschrift voor Wereldliteratuur, and my latest writing "Ambivalence and Resistance in Contemporary Imaginations of US Capitalist Hinterlands" (Open Access) appears in the edited volume Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment, and Care (Palgrave 2023). Currently I am co-editing a forthcoming volume with Esther Peeren on cultural imaginations of the rural (Brill), and am working on a monograph (based on my dissertation) titled Genres of Rurality: Unsettling Affect in Popular Imaginations of the Globalized US Rural. I am also an active member of the Terra Critica: Interdisciplinary Network for Critical Humanities, where you can find some short writings and reflections.
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020