Academic staff

  • Dr Evelyn Wan (Programme Coordinator)

    Evelyn Wan is a researcher in the domain of computation and digital culture, specialising in cultural theory such as biopolitics, affect, posthumanism, gender, queer, and postcolonialism. Also, she is a performance artist specialising in contemporary dance, contact improvisation, urban dance, site-specific work, and choreography.

  • Dr Toine Minnaert

    Toine Minnaert's main scholarly focus is on the relationship between national and cultural identity, and their influence on national, international and transnational cultural policy (including EU cultural policy). He lectures on e.g. programming cultural institutions, the structure of the cultural field, and Dutch and European cultural policy.

  • Dr Sigrid Merx

    Sigrid Merx is an Assistant Professor Theatre Studies at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on performative interventions in public space and on the concept of public space ‘as’ performance. Interested in the question how we are and can be a society nowadays, she seeks to explore theatricality and performativity in the urban public sphere in order to outline “a dramaturgy of engagement”. She is member of the research group [Urban Interfaces] and one of the artistic directors of Platform-Scenography.

  • Dr Zuleika Sheik

    Zuleika Sheik (she/they) is a South African decolonial feminist, poet, yogi and Assistant Professor in Black Studies, Gender and Decolonial Approaches. She works with Feminism in the plural, particularly from the perspective of the Global South, this includes, women of colour, Dalit, Chicana, Afro and African feminism. Her particular interest is in ‘decolonizing methodologies’, considering the ‘how’ of doing research that is non-extractive, life-affirming and aimed towards social justice and collective liberation.

  • Dr Trine Friis Sørensen

    Dr Trine Friis Sørensen researches institutional structures and curatorial methods, as art institutions become increasingly multi- and interdisciplinary. She works actively in the field as a curator and publishes on commissioning, education and archives.

  • Dr Lianne Toussaint

    Lianne Toussaint researches the emerging phenomenon of 'techno-fashion': garments that fuse technological functionalities with the aesthetic, expressive, critical, and communicative roles of fashion. She lectures on a variety of topics, including fashion, technology and culture, gender, visual culture and cultural theory.