Academic staff
Our lecturers are internationally recognised as experts in their fields. The core lecturers of the research Master's programme in Gender Studies include:
Dr Eva Midden (Programme Coordinator)
Eva Midden is an Assistant Professor in Gender Studies. Midden's current research focuses on gender, religion and national identity in the context of conversion to Islam. Her general research interests include feminists theory, postcolonial theory, intersectionality, (post)secular(ism), whiteness and media analysis.
Dr Domitilla Olivieri (Programme Coordinator)
Domitilla Olivieri is an anthropologist, activist, teacher, and researcher. She works as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate Gender programme. Olivieri's research and didactics are in the field of feminist, queer, postcolonial and decolonial theory, documentary film, visual anthropology, media, and cultural studies.
Prof. Sandra Ponzanesi
Sandra Ponzanesi is a Professor and chair of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies/Graduate Gender Programme. Her expertise is gender and postcolonial critique from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Her research areas include postcolonial studies, transnational feminist theories, comparative literature, Italian colonial history, European migration studies, visual culture, postcolonial cinema, media and conflict studies.
Dr Kathrin Thiele
Kathrin Thiele is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. Trained transdisciplinarily in Gender Studies, Sociology, Literary Studies and Critical Theory, Kathrin's research engages with questions of critical inquiry, ethics and politics from queer feminist, decolonial and posthuman(ist) philosophical perspectives.
Dr Jamila Mascat
Jamila Mascat is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Graduate Gender Programme. She is also one of the Programme Coordinators of the MA Gender Studies. Her transdisciplinary research works across the fields of Political Philosophy (German Idealism and Marxism in particular), Postcolonial Studies, Feminist Theories, and Critical Race Theories. Her current research interests focus, on the one hand, on theories of partisanship and political engagement and, on the other hand, on theories of postcolonial justice and postcolonial reparations.
Dr Magdalena Górska
Magdalena Górska is Assistant Professor at the Graduate Gender Programme. She is also one of the Programme Coordinators of the MA Gender Studies. Górska's research focuses on feminist politics of breathing and vulnerability. She is the founder of the Breathing Matters Network.