Past PhD-Research

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Philipp Schmerheim

Skepticism Films. Knowing and Doubting the World in Contemporary Cinema
Supervisor: prof. dr. Josef Früchtl | University of Amsterdam 2013