Anastasia Hacopian is an assistant professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences bachelor program at the School of Liberal Arts at Utrecht University. She is coordinator and instructor of the courses Multidisciplinary Project and the Interdisciplinary Capstone. Next to her work in the School of Liberal Arts, Anastasia is instructor in the program “Navigating Insecure Futures” in the Honours College. Anastasia is member of the faculty of Humanities working commission for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and a guest lecturer in the Rector's League. 

After studying German at the University of California Berkeley and San Francisco State University, Anastasia completed her doctoral studies in German Literature & Culture at Humboldt University in Berlin, using an multidisciplinary approach to research the bed motif in Franz Kafka's writing and its relationship to the modern boundary between private and the public space.

As the child of Japanese and Iranian-Armenian immigrants to the United States, Anastasia is stimulated by the access her "otherness" grants to multiple cultures and vantage points. Her current research in higher education focuses on the dynamics between positionality and interdisciplinarity. She applies creative research methodology in the classroom as well as the city, where she studies architectural history, urban aesthetics, modes of mapping, and creativity (slowness, failure, messiness).