Marit van de Warenburg is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry and a member of the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies. Her project “Between Remembrance and Appropriation: Transcultural Circulations of Poetry and Song” is funded by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO).

The project regards the conditions under which the cultural transmission of heritage from one cultural group to another becomes the subject of (public) objections. The project looks at the topic from the perspective of cultural memory studies and particularly focuses on contested translations and reuses of spirituals and spoken word poetry. 

Marit holds a BA in English literature and German literature, and an MA in comparative literary studies. She wrote her MA thesis on the interplay between protest music and memory.