Past PhD-Research
NICA offers graduate courses for research master and PhD students, and serves as a professional network for affiliated scholars. Click on a year to see a list of completed PhD’s.
Completed PhD-projects
2021
Tessa de Zeeuw
Postdramatic Legal Theatre: Space, Body, Media and Genre
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Frans-Willem Korsten| Leiden University 2021
Selçuk Balamir
Un Sustaining the Commodity-Machine: Commoning Practices in Postcapitalist Design
Supervisor: dr. Joost de Bloois | University of Amsterdam 2021
Anna Volkmar
Muddling Through Wicked Complexity: Why We Should Look at Art When We Talk About Nuclear Power
Supervisor: em. Prof. Dr. Robert Zwijnenberg | Leiden University 2021
David Gauthier
To execute, rewrite, and debug: On the construction and deconstruction of computation
Supervisors: prof. dr. Robin Boast and Prof. Dr. Iris van der Tuin | University of Amsterdam 2021
Rebecca Erickson
Middlebrow musical misogyny
Supervisors: prof. dr. Julia Kursell, dr. Barbara Titus | University of Amsterdam 2021
2020
Looi van Kessel
Savage Embraces: James Purdy, Melodrama, and the Narration of Identity
Supervisors: Em. Prof. Dr. Ernst van Alphen, Dr. Johanna Kardux | Leiden University 2020
Tingting Hui
Melodramas of the Tongue: Accented Speech in Literature, Art, and Theory
Supervisor: Em. Prof. Dr. Ernst van Alphen | Leiden University 2020
Jiyu Zhang
China redux: The central frontiers of the modern nation in Chinese cinema
Supervisors: Em. Prof. Dr. Ernst van Alphen, Dr. Eliza Steinbock and Dr. Peter Verstraten | Leiden University 2020
Nadia de Vries
Digital Corpses: Creation, Appropriation, and Reappropriation
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Esther Peeren and Prof. dr. Ellen Rutten | University of Amsterdam 2020
Ozge Calafato
Posing for the Republic. Making the Modern Turkish Citizen in Vernacular Photographs from the 1920s and 1930s
Supervisors: prof. dr. Luiza Białasewicz, Prof. Dr. Esther Peeren | University of Amsterdam 2020
Tycho Maas
The Cape Khoi in pre‐1652 European travelogues, an early modern Latin letter, and the South African novel Eilande (2002)
Supervisors: prof. dr. Yolande Jansen and prof. dr. Esther Peeren | University of Amsterdam 2020
Seth Rogoff
The Politics of the Dreamscape
Supervisors: prof. dr. Thomas Vaessens, Prof. Dr. Esther Peeren | University of Amsterdam 2020
2019
Thijs Witty
Essays and measure. Apprenticeships in Genre
Supervisor: Dr. Marie-Aude Baronian and em. Prof. Dr. Mirelle Rosello | University of Amsterdam 2019
Simone Kalkman
Worlding Rio de Janeiro’s favelas: relations and representations of socio-spatial inequality in visual art
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christof Lindner, Prof. dr. Kees Koonings, Dr. Carolyn Birdsall | University of Amsterdam 2019
Martin Rossouw
Transformational Ethics of Film: Thinking the Cinemakeover in the Film-Philosophy Debate
Supervisors: prof. dr. Annie van den Oever, prof. dr. Liesbeth Korthals Altes | University of Groningen 2019
Daniel de Zeeuw
Between Mass and Mask: The Profane Media Logic of Anonymous Imageboard Culture
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Robin Celikates & Prof. Dr. Esther Peeren | University of Amsterdam 2019
Shuaishuai Wang
Living with Censorship: The Political Economy and Cultural Politics of Chinese Gay Dating Apps
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Jeroen de Kloet and dr. Rachel Spronk | University of Amsterdam 2019
Lin Jian
Schizoid creators: Creative work and subjectivity in the Chinese cultural economies
Supervisors: prof. dr. Jeroen De Kloet and prof. dr. Ned Rossiter | University of Amsterdam 2019
Anouk Zuurmond
Shared stories and creative dissonances : transnational literary projects and European identity
Supervisors: prof. dr. Thomas Vaessens | University of Amsterdam 2019
Olga Ryabets
Secret Theatre: Off-the-grid Performance Practices in Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia (1945 – 1989)
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Ellen Rutten, Prof. dr. Kati Röttger | University of Amsterdam 2019
Mimi Mitchell
The Revival of the Baroque Violin
Supervisor: prof. dr. Julia Kursell, prof. P K. Holman, dr. Barbara Titus | University of Amsterdam 2019
Paris Cameron-Gardos
Way Out: Re-Iterative Coming Out in Queer European Cinema
Supervisor: Em. Prof. Dr. Mirelle Rosello | University of Amsterdam 2019
Bahia Shebab
Unified multiplicities: Arabic letters between modernity, identity, and abstraction
Supervisors: Em. Prof. Dr. Ernst van Alphen, prof. dr. S.M Hassan | Leiden University 2019
2018
Lonneke van der Velden
Surveillance as public matter: Revisiting sousveillance through devices and leaks
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Richard Rogers | University of Amsterdam 2018
Evelyn Wan
Clocked! Time and Biopower in the Time of Algorithms
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Maaike Bleeker | Utrecht University 2018
Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz
Transnational Material Politics: Constructions of Dutch Design, 1970-2012
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Ginette Verstraete, Prof. dr. Timo de Rijk, and Dr. Javier Gimeno Martínez | Free University 2018
Lianne Toussaint
Wearing Technology: When Fashion and Technology Entwine
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Anneke Smelik and prof.dr.ir. Peter-Paul C.C. Verbeek | Radboud University 2018
Mikki Stelder
Queering the occupation: From zionist sexual politics to Palestinian decolonial-queer imaginaries
Supervisor: em. Prof. Dr. Mirelle Rosello | University of Amsterdam 2018
Penn Ip
Female Migrant Workers Navigating the Service Economy in Shanghai: Home, Beauty, and the Stigma of Singlehood
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Jeroen de Kloet, Prof. Dr. Esther Peeren | University of Amsterdam 2018
Alexander Paul Isiko
Gender Roles in Traditional Healing Practices in Busoga
Supervisors: Em. Prof. Dr. Ernst van Alphen, Dr. Astrid van Weyenberg | Leiden University 2018
Ali Shobeiri
Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography
Supervisors: Em. Prof. Dr. Ernst van Alphen, Dr. Helen Westgeest | Leiden University 2018
Asli Ozgen Tuncer
The Image of Walking: The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Patricia Pisters and prof. dr. Frank Kessler | Leiden University 2018
Alejandra Espinosa
The Politics of Public Construction in a Globalized World: Imagining Urban Space in Ecuador
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christof Lindner and prof. dr. Esther Peeren | Leiden University 2018
Vesna Vravnik
After the Fall of the Pink Curtain: Alliances between Nationalists and Queers in Post-Yugoslavian Cinema
Supervisors: Em. Prof. Dr. Mirelle Rosello, dr. Srdjan Sremac | Leiden University 2018
Müge Ozoglu
No Man’s Land. Erotic Narratives in the Late Ottoman Empire
Supervisors: Em. Prof. Dr. Ernst van Alphen, dr. Petra de Bruijn| Leiden University 2018
2017
Eva Meijer
Political Animal Voices
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Yolande Jansen, Prof. dr. Robin Celikates | University of Amsterdam 2017
Cui Chen
The savage as living ghost: representations of Native Americans and scholarly failures to dismantle the notion of the savage
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Frans-Willem Korsten and Dr. Maria Boletsi | Leiden University 2017
Simon Ferdinand
I Map Therefore I am Modern: Cartography and Global Modernity in the Visual Arts
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Jeroen de Kloet & Prof. Dr. Esther Peeren | University of Amsterdam 2017
Ilse van Rijn
The Artists’ Text as Work of Art
Supervisors: prof. dr. Thomas Vaessens, dr. Jeroen Boomgaard | University of Amsterdam 2017
Irene Villaescusa Illan
Writing the Nation: Transculturation and Nationalism in Hispano: Filipino Literature of the Early Twentieth Century
Supervisors: prof. dr. Jeroen De Kloet, Prof. Dr. Esther Peeren | University of Amsterdam 2017
Teresa Havelkova
Opera as Hypermedium. Meaning-Making, Immediacy, and the Politics of Perception
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Rokus de Groot & Prof. dr. Maaike Bleeker | University of Amsterdam 2017
Mari Nakamura
Emancipation in postmodernity : political thought in Japanese science fiction animation
Supervisors: prof. dr. Cwierta Katarzyna, Dr. Florian Schneider | Leiden University 2017
2016
Judith Naeff
Precarious Imaginaries of Beirut: A City’s Suspended Now
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christof Lindner | University of Amsterdam 2016
Pedram Dibazar
Non-visibility and the politics of everyday presence: A spatial analysis of contemporary urban Iran
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christof Lindner | University of Amsterdam 2016
Annelies Kleinherenbrink
The Politics of Plasticity. Sex and Gender in the 21st Century Brain
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Patricia Pisters | University of Amsterdam 2016
Ellen Kleijnen
Route to Reading. Promoting Reading through a School Library: Effects for non-Western Migrant Students
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Frank Huysmans, Prof. Dr. Ed Elbers and dr. Rudy Ligtvoet | University of Amsterdam 2016
Melle Jan Kromhout
Noise Resonance. Technological Sound Recording and the Logic of Filtering
Supervisor: Dr. Sander van Maas | University of Amsterdam 2016
Eugen Octav Popa
Thought Experiments in Academic Communication
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Frans van Eemeren | University of Amsterdam 2016
Martijn Boven
Metaphor and metamorphosis: Paul Ricoeur and Gilles Deleuze on the emergence of novelty
Supervisor: prof. dr. B.P. van Heusden | University of Groningen 2016
Birkan Tas
Reclaiming Hope: Affect, Temporality, Politics
Supervisors: Dr. Murat Aydemir and em. Prof. Dr. Mirelle Rosello | University of Amsterdam 2016
Fabiola Camuti
The Trained Experience: A study on the Relationship between Meditation Practices and the Actor’s System of Knowledge
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Kati Röttger and dr. Roberto Ciancarelli | University of Amsterdam 2016
Jeffrey Manoel Pijpers
Sonic Resistance. Diaspora, Marginality and Censorship in Cuban and Brazilian Popular Music
Supervisors: em. Prof. Dr. Mieke Bal, Prof. Dr. Esther Peeren, dr. Cornelia Graebner | University of Amsterdam 2016
Amir Vodka
The Human Chameleon. Hybrid Jews in Cinema
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Patricia Pisters | University of Amsterdam 2016
Paula Albuquerque
The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Patricia Pisters , dr. Jeroen Boomgaard | University of Amsterdam 2016
2015
Blandine Joret
Today, Icarus: On the persistence of André Bazin’s myth of total cinema
Supervisor: dr. Marie-Aude Baronian | University of Amsterdam 2015
Aylin Kuryel
Image acts and visual communities: everyday nationalism in contemporary Turkey
Supervisors: em. Prof. Dr. Mieke Bal and Prof. Dr. Esther Peeren | University of Amsterdam 2015
Miriam Meissner
Global Financial Crisis and the City: Narrative, Myth and the Urban Imaginary
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Lindner | University of Amsterdam 2015
Lucy van der Wiel
Freezing fertility: Oocyte cryopreservation and the gender politics of ageing
Supervisors: em. Prof. Dr. Mieke Bal and Prof. Dr. Jose van Dijck| University of Amsterdam 2015
Renske Wierda
Experience-based authority argumentation in direct-to-consumer medical advertisements: An analytical and empirical study concerning the strategic anticipation of critical question
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Frans van Eemeren and Dr. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans | University of Amsterdam 2015
Tim Yaczo
Brains with character: Reading and writing neuronarrative
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Patricia Pisters and Dr. Jan Hein Hoogstad | University of Amsterdam 2015
Marie Beauchamps
Paradox of Sovereignty: Denaturalization in the Age of Globalization
Supervisor: em. Prof. Dr. Mirelle Rosello | University of Amsterdam 2015
2013
Philipp Schmerheim
Skepticism Films. Knowing and Doubting the World in Contemporary Cinema
Supervisor: prof. dr. Josef Früchtl | University of Amsterdam 2013