Staff
| Directors of Research | Prof. Giovanna Fossati |
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| Research Coordinator | |
| Directors of the Research Programmes | Gender Studies: Prof. Sandra Ponzanesi |
All staff
- Opera Librettos, Baroque Music and Culture, Early Modern Cultural History, History of International Relations, Music Historiography, Music and (Cold War) Politics and Diplomacy, Musicology, Paleography, Archives, History of Music Theory and Musicology, Music and Material Culture, Music, Diplomacy
- Philosophy and Literature, Language Acquisition, Archival Research, Comparative Literature Studies, Digital Humanities
- Literature in the 19th / 20th Century, Modern Dutch Literature, Gothic Studies, Gender Studies, Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning, Cultural History, Interdisciplinary Education, Scholarship of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning (SoITL), Postcolonial Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Didactics of Literature
- Musicology, Music Historiography, Opera, Cultural History of the 19th Century, Music and Media, History of Music Theory and Musicology, Practice-Based Research, Political History 19th / 20th Century
- Cultural History, Interbellum, Literary (Post)Modernism, Literary History, Literary Criticism, Modern Dutch Literature, Poetics, Contemporary Literature
- Digital Ethnography, Digital Culture, Qualitative Research, Globalisation, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Media, Cross-Cultural, Platform Studies, Social Media, Democratic Governance, Decoloniality, International Comparative Research, Postcolonial Studies, Critical and Feminist Pedagogies
- Comparative Literature Studies, Contemporary Poetry, Literary Theory, Intermediality, History of Textiles, Translation Studies, Queer Theory, Feminist Literary Criticism , Diaspora and Transnational Studies
- Contemporary Literature, Environmental Humanities, French Culture and Literature, Psychoanalysis, Reading, Modern and Contemporary Art, Posthumanism, New Materialism, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Critical Theory, Feminism
Clare Beesley
Email: c.beesley@uu.nl- History of the Book, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Medieval Culture, Medieval Manuscripts, Medieval Literature, Middle Dutch
- Cultural Memory
- Cultural Heritage, Political Activism, Colonial History, Postcolonial Studies, Public History
- Patronage, Authorship, Cultural History, Institutions, Citizenship, Popular Culture, Cultural Policy, Creative Humanities, Value Orientations
- Medieval French, Medieval Culture, Medieval Literature, Middle Dutch, Historical Fiction
- Gender Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Political Theory, Feminist Philosophy, European Philosophy, French Culture
- Creativity, China and Europe, Medical Humanities, Creative Humanities, Literature and (New) Media, Intermediality, Philosophy of Art, Literary Theory, Music, Aesthetics
- Early Modern French Literature, Renaissance Literature, History of the Book
- Environmental History, Literary History, Modern Dutch Literature, Cultural History 1960s in Global Perspective, Avant-Garde, Poetry from the First World War, Poetry, Song Culture
- Collective Memory, Feminist Theories, Gothic, Grotesque, Literary Biography, Media, Postcolonial Studies, Psychoanalysis, Representations of Truth and Reconciliation, Semiotics, Comparative Literature Studies
- Comparative Literature Studies, Literary Theory, Environmental Humanities, Cultural Memory, German Literature, Modernism, Literary (Post)Modernism
- Constantinople, Late Antiquity, Early Christianity, Rhetoric, Latin Language and Literature, Ancient History, Reception Studies, Alexander the Great, Roman history, Democracy, History of Education, Constantine the Great, Latin Epigraphy
- Science and Technology Studies, Emotion, Philosophy of Technology
- Synchronous Computer Mediated Communication, Task-Based Language Teaching, Telecollaboration, Virtual Worlds and Serious Games, Foreign Language Teacher Education
- Philosophy of Technology, Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence
- Italian Literature, Dante Studies, Medieval Culture, Renaissance Culture, Reception Studies, Translation Studies, Digital Humanities, Archives
- Gender Studies, Feminist Literary Criticism , Migration, Postcolonial Studies
Nisrine Chaer
Email: n.chaer@uu.nl- Gender and Sexuality, Anthropology, Migration, Transgender Studies, Cultural Studies, Social Movements, Queer Theory, Political Economy, Middle Eastern Studies, Human Geography
dr. Simon Cook
Email: s.j.cook@uu.nl- Computational Humanities, Early Modern Literature and Culture, Natural Language Processing, Cultural History, Digital Humanities, Data Mining
- Digital Society and Culture, Social Media, Media and Culture
- European Philosophy, Food Studies, Environmental Humanities, Comparative Literature Studies, Creative Humanities, Philosophy of Art, Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinarity, Postcolonial Criticism, Modern and Contemporary Art
- Animal studies, Posthumanism, German Literature, Literary Translation, Literary Theory, Modernism, Literary (Post)Modernism, Comparative Literature Studies, Literary Criticism, Environmental Humanities, Contemporary Literature
dr. Linda Duits
Email: l.duits@uu.nl- Translation Studies, Testing and Assessment
- Cultural Sociology, Globalisation, Digital Culture, Social Participation, Public Participation, Resilience, Poverty, Social Inequality, Indentured labour in Suriname, Philosophy and Theory of Institutions
- Digital Media, Middle Eastern Studies, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Studies
- Antislavery and Abolitionism, Cultural History, History of Feminism, Literature and Memory, Literary Theory, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, Political Activism and Rhetoric, Magazine Studies, Transnationalism
- Cultural Studies, Collective Memory, Turkey Studies, Biographies and Life Stories, Autobiographical Memory, Political Activism, Social Movements, Life Writing
dr. Leila Essa
Email: l.essa@uu.nl- Comparative Literature Studies, Anglophone Indian Literature, German Literature and Culture, Contemporary Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Literature and Space, Literature and Memory, Literature and (New) Media, Social Justice, Postmigrant Authorship
- Gender and Sexuality, Critical Race Studies, Media and Subjectivation, Film and Television, Queer Theory, Continental Philosophy, European Studies, Postcolonial Criticism
- Artificial Intelligence
- Comparative Literature Studies, Climate Change, Gender and Literature, Feminist Literary Criticism , New Materialism, Postcolonial Studies, Queer Theory, Literary Theory, Australia, Modern Dutch Literature, Contemporary Literature, Migration
- Late Antiquity, Medieval Latin, Early Middle Ages
- Theatre, Gender Studies, Contemporary Literature, Identity, Migration, Exile
- Software Studies, New Media Art, Philosophy of Computing
- Authorship, Patronage, Social Poetry, Women's Writing, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Literature
- English Language, Game and Play Studies, Environmental Policy, Creativity, Youth Participation in Research, Hermeneutics, Postcolonial Studies
- Legal and Multidisciplinary Research, Artificial Intelligence and Law
dr. René Glas
Email: r.glas@uu.nl- Cultural Transfer, German Literature and Culture, Intermediality, Popular Culture, Popular Literature, Didactics, Migration in/to Europe
- Digital Humanities, Media and Diaspora, Media History, Television Culture in the Digital Environment, Eastern Europe
- Critical Respiratory Studies, Feminist Theories, Critical Theory, Posthumanism, Feminist Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy, Environmental Humanities, Gender Studies, Disability Studies
- Dramaturgy, Scenography, Theatre and Performance Studies, Creative Humanities

Shuangli Guo
Email: s.guo@uu.nl- Empirical Study of Literature, Promotion of reading, Medical Humanities, Media Psychology, Interdisciplinarity, Interdisciplinary Education
dr. Laurens Ham
Email: l.j.ham@uu.nl- Authorship, Institutions, Creative Writing, Popular Music, Political Activism, Contemporary Poetry, Art and Engagement
- Musicology, Music Analysis, Music Historiography
- Cultural Theory, Race and Gender, Postcolonial Criticism, Political Economy, Transmedia Storytelling, Popular Culture, Fan Studies, Media History, Television Culture, Urban Media
Guanqin He
Email: g.he@uu.nl- Digital Methods, Social Media, Platform Studies, Software Studies, Digital Media, Digital Culture, Internet and Media, Mobile Communication, New Media, Internet and Media, Datafication, Social Media
- Culture and Identity, Renaissance Culture, Heritage and Tourism, Italian Culture, Literature and Memory
- Transgender Studies, Disability Studies, Aesthetics, Race and Gender, Critical Theory, Visual Culture, Feminist Theories, Queer Theory
- Manuscripts and Early Prints, Reading, Material Religion, History of the Book, Dutch History of Religion, Religion and Media, Paleography
- Historical Fiction, Popular Literature, Women's Writing, Cultural Heritage, Posthumanism, Animal studies, Children's Literature
- Vocational Education, Artificial Intelligence, Media Literacy, Citizenship
- Transnationalism, Refugees, Exile, Gender, Cultural Identity, Migration
- Cultural Memory, Film and Television, Italian Culture, Literary (Post)Modernism, Mobility and Migration, Precarity, Transnationalism, Cultural Heritage, Multilingualism
dr. Eric Jas
Email: e.t.f.jas@uu.nl- Music of the Renaissance, Music Theory
- Literary Theory, Feminist Literary Criticism , Postcolonial Studies, Decoloniality, New Materialism, Aesthetics, Literature in the 19th / 20th Century, Contemporary Literature, French Culture and Literature, German Literature
- Videogame Music, Phenomenology, Music and Media
- Philosophy of Technology, Ethics, E-Health
- Media and Culture, Film and Television, Film History, Fan Studies, Digital Media, Archives
- Environmental Humanities, Infrastructure, Television Theory, Television in Transition, Television History, Media Events, Media Technologies, Film and Television, Documentaries, Historiography, Public History, Memory Studies, Gender Issues in Visual Media
- Digital Communication, Media History, New Media, Digitalisation

Annika Kirbis
Email: a.kirbis@uu.nl- Archives, Discourse Analysis, English Language, Film History, Text Analysis, Translation English-Dutch
- Modern Germany, German Literature and Culture, German Modern Literature, Collective Memory, Cultural Transfer, Intercultural Competence, Didactics of Literature, Cultural Memory
- Cultural Memory, Perpetrator Studies, Environmental Humanities, Disability Studies, Posthumanism, German Literature and Culture, Italian Literature, Italian Culture, Literary Theory, Modernism
Li-An Ko
Email: l.a.ko@uu.nl- French Culture, French Language and Culture in the Netherlands in the Modern Times, History of French Language Teaching and Learning, Intercultural Competence, Intercultural Mediation, Language and Identity
- Creative Writing, Narratology, Poetry and Poetry Analysis, Translation English-Dutch, Translation Studies
- Academic Writing Pedagogies, Digital Ethnography, Digital Culture, Ethnographic Fieldwork, Fan Studies, Feminist Theories, Film and Television, Politics of Representation, Political Economy, Popular Culture, Queer Theory, Television in Transition, Transmedia Storytelling
- Digital Media, Interactive Media, Smart Cities, Sustainable Cities, Alternative Interfaces, Social Inclusion
dr. Rob Leurs
Email: r.h.leurs@uu.nlJiaxin Liu
Email: j.liu1@uu.nl- Museum Studies, Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities, Interactive Media, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, User Experience
Xiaomo Liu
Email: x.liu4@uu.nl
Jesper Lust
Email: j.lust@uu.nl- Gender and Literature
- History of Music Theory and Musicology, History of Science, Media and Culture, Music Analysis, Music and Media, Music Theory, Musicology, Philosophy of Technology, Science and Technology Studies, Videogame Music
- Music and Material Culture, Medieval Manuscripts, Medieval Culture, Music Historiography, Music Notation, History of the Book, Music and (Cold War) Politics and Diplomacy, Music of the Middle Ages
- Digital Ethnography, Ethnography, Ethnographic Fieldwork, Discourse Analysis, Narrative and Discourse, Media Literacy, Social Identity, Identity, Critical Pedagogy and Methods of Learning, Critical Theory, Critical and Feminist Pedagogies, Social Context, Social Media, Organisation Studies, Organisational Culture, Qualitative Research Methods, Multidisciplinary Research and Education, Art and Engagement, Multimedia Methods, Mixed Methods
- Political Philosophy, Feminist Theories, Postcolonial Criticism, Postcolonial Studies, German Idealism, Race and Gender, Critical Theory
- Children's Literature, Gender and Literature, Queer Theory
- Mediatisation of Culture and Society, Datafication, Food Communication, Environmental Humanities, Television Culture in the Digital Environment, Popular Television, Participatory Cultures, Audiovisual archives and re-use
- Democracy, Social Media, Digital Media, Conflict and Mediation, Political Sciences
- Datafication, Digital Methods, Digital Humanities, Framing, Interdisciplinary Education, Nationalism and Transnationalism, Digital Society and Culture
- Anthropology, Audiovisual Arts, Documentaries, Ethnomusicology, Feminist Theories, Visual Ethnography, Feminist Film, Film Theory, Media Studies, Politics of Representation, Semiotics, Technologies of Vision, Visual Studies, Queer Feminism, Postcolonial Studies, Ethnography, Critical and Feminist Pedagogies, Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Gender Issues in Visual Media, Visual Culture, Community Engaged Learning
- Humanitarian Communication
- Women's Writing, Latin Language and Literature, Intellectual History and Early Modern Europe, Early Modern Cultural History
- Literary Theory, Comparative Literature Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminist Literary Criticism , Contemporary Literature, Postcolonial Criticism, Archives
- Animation Films, Conservation, Cultural Heritage, Film History
- High Middle Ages, Celtic Languages and Culture, Medieval Literature, Medieval Science and Intellectual Culture, Medieval History, Language and Translation in the Middle Ages, Medieval Culture, Translation Studies, Literary Theory, Reception Studies, Intellectual History and Early Modern Europe, History of the Book
- Medieval Culture, Medieval Literature, Cultural Heritage, Middle Dutch Songs, Middle Dutch, Suster Bertken
- European Studies, Gender, Colonial History, Media Studies, Migration, Postcolonial Criticism, Postcolonial Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, Visual Culture
- Modernism, Contemporary Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, Literature and (New) Media, Media Studies, Literary Theory, Russian Avant-Garde Art and Theory
- Film and Television, Film Theory, Screen Cultures & Society, Film History, Television Culture, Media and Culture, Race and Racism, Communication Studies, Aesthetics, Qualitative Research Methods, Case Study Method
- Digital Communication, Digital Culture, Digital Humanities, Environmental Humanities, Game and Play Studies, New Media

Timna Rauch
Email: t.k.rauch@uu.nl- Film and Television, Film Theory, Philosophy, Popular Television, Ethics, Television Theory
Fleur Renkema
Email: f.renkema@uu.nl- Gender and Sexuality, Social Movements, Queer Theory, Culture and Identity, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Political Theory
- Platform Studies, Digital Sustainability, Media and Culture, Media Ecology, Media History, Digital Society and Culture, Climate Change
- Collective Memory, Historical Fiction, Historical Theory, Intermediality, Literary Theory, Nationalism and Transnationalism, Reception Studies, Narratology, Walter Scott, Social Movements
- Medieval Latin, Medieval Religions, Liturgy, Saint Martin, Christian Apocryphal Literature, Early Middle Ages

dr. Loes Rusch
Email: l.rusch@uu.nldr. Subro Saha
Email: s.saha@uu.nl- Narratology, Narrative and Discourse, Italian Culture, Italian Language, Semiotics, Cultural Memory, Media and Culture, Political Activism, Gender Studies, Intercultural Communication
- History of the Book, Children's Literature, Media Studies, Popular Culture, Relation between Literature and Science, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Cultural History
- Philosophy of Human Rights, Constitutional Philosophy, Philosophy and Theory of Institutions, Philosophy of Criminal Law, Philosophy of Law, Decolonial Ecology, Onto-Epistemologies of Music Performance, Semiotics
- Digital Humanities, Documentaries, Film and Television, Media Studies, Production Studies
- Artificial Intelligence, Applied Ethics, Socio-Political Debates on Technology, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods, Social Media
- Improvisation, Music and Material Culture, Music Notation, Performance Studies, Music and Media, Music and Postcolonial Theory
- Modern Dutch Literature, Literary Theory, Literary Criticism, Postcolonial Criticism, Postcolonial Studies, Decoloniality, Cultural Critic, Ecology, Environmental Humanities
- Early Middle Ages, Late Antiquity, Medieval Latin
- Latin America, Psychoanalysis
- Community Engaged Learning, Interdisciplinary Education, Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning
dr. Nike Stam
Email: n.stam@uu.nl- Celtic Languages and Culture, Medieval Manuscripts, Medieval Literature, Language and Translation in the Middle Ages
- Contemporary Poetry, Modern Dutch Literature, Performance Poetry, Poetry, Reading, Youth, Social Media
Kyra Stefels
Email: k.stefels@uu.nl- Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, European Identity, Early Modern Cultural History
- Digital Humanities
- Queer Theory, Queer Feminism, Literature and Film, Comparative History, Cultural History, Transgender Studies, Documentaries, Politics of Representation, Gender Issues in Visual Media
- Translation Studies, Exile, Transnationalism
- Gender Studies, Feminist Philosophy, Queer Feminism, Gender and Sexuality, Critical Theory, Environmental Humanities, Decolonial Ecology, Posthumanism, Continental Philosophy
Jaron Toonen
Email: j.t.toonen@uu.nl- Fashion Theory, Fashion Studies, Socio-Political Debates on Technology, Philosophy of Technology, Visual Culture, Cultural Theory, Visual and Material Culture, Cultural Studies, Creative Humanities
- Post-Yugoslav Transitions, Feminist Art History, Feminist Theories, Gender Issues in Visual Media, Memory Studies, Migration in/to Europe, Oral History, Postcolonial Criticism, Postsocialist Transitions, Visual Culture
- Theory of Cultural Inquiry, New Materialism, Creative Humanities, Interdisciplinarity, Interdisciplinary Education, Scholarship of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning (SoITL), Philosophy of Science, Feminist Epistemology
Nina Vabab
Email: a.n.vabab@uu.nl- Cultural Identity, Manuscripts and Early Prints, Middle Ages, Middle Dutch Language and Culture in European Perspective, Freedom of Speech
- Film History, Film Theory, Media Archaeology, Digital Media, Intermediality, Early Cinema, Screen Cultures & Society, Popular Culture
- Screen Cultures & Society, Urban Media, Creative Humanities, Media Studies, Digital Media, Digital Culture, Interactive Media, New Media Art, Audiovisual Arts, Film Theory, Early Cinema
- French Culture and Literature, Early Modern Literature and Culture, Late Middle Ages, History of the Book, Multilingualism, Literary Translation
- Renaissance Literature, Early Modern Literature and Culture, Early Modern Cultural History, Intellectual History and Early Modern Europe
- Literary Theory, Collective Memory, Social Movements, Feminist Literary Criticism , Biographies and Life Stories, Creative Writing
- Identity and Cultural Diversity, National Identity, Cultural Memory, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Theory, Critical Theory, Digital Media, Discourse Analysis, Qualitative Research
- Dramaturgy, Theatre and Performance Studies, Performance, Choreography, Critical Theory
- Postcolonial Studies, Digital Media, Film and Television, Globalisation, Media History, Heritage and Tourism
- Augmented Reality, Media Archaeology, Virtual Reality, Digital Humanities, Wireless Technology, Mobile Communication, Urban Media, New Media, Social Media, Digital Culture, Digital Media, Internet and Media, Communication Studies
- Feminism, Gender and Historiography, History of Social Work, Social Justice, Welfare State, Globalisation, Women's Movements, Postcolonial Studies
- Fables and Animal Stories, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Medieval Culture, Medieval Literature, Medieval Science and Intellectual Culture, Middle Dutch Literature, Reynaert the Fox, Language and Translation in the Middle Ages
- English Language, Game and Play Studies, Narratology, Historiography, Creative Humanities
dr. Evelyn Wan
Email: p.y.wan@uu.nl- Cultural Theory, Theatre and Performance Studies, Digital Media, Algorithms, Decoloniality, Gender Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Creative Humanities
Bei Wang
Email: b.wang1@uu.nl- Social Media, Digital Media, Digital Culture, Digital Humanities
Chuanhe Wang
Email: c.wang3@uu.nl- Environmental Humanities, Film and Television, Infrastructure
- Literary Theory, Cultural Memory, Literature and Memory
- Cultural History of the 19th Century, Music and Media, Musical Infrastructure, Post-War Remigration of Jewish Musicians, World Expositions
- Game and Play Studies, Media Comparison, Practice-Based Research, Social Media, Software Studies
- Algorithms, Big Data, Quantitative Data Analysis, Quantitative Data Analysis, Social Media, Software Studies
Ruowen Xu
Email: r.xu@uu.nlZheng Ying
Email: z.ying@uu.nldr. Mia You
Email: m.m.you@uu.nl- Creative Humanities, Creative Writing, Contemporary Literature