Published 12 May 2009
Dr. Joyce Goggin is AUC's Head of Studies (Humanities). Joyce Goggin is an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, and lectures in English, Comparative Literature, Film and New Media. Joyce Goggin obtained her BA in German Studies from the Université de Montréal, studied Arts and Humanities at Universität Hanover, and was awarded her Master's in Comparative Literature by the University of Georgia and University of Toronto. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the Université de Montréal, and followed post-doctoral studies in Art History and Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Direct phone number: +31 (0)20 525 8786
- Rachel Esner, Lecturer.
Rachel Esner is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, where she lectures in Art of the Modern Period.
Rachel Esner obtained her BA in Art History from Barnard College/Columbia University, studied art history at the University of Hamburg (Germany), and received her PhD from the Graduate Center of City University of New York. She pursued postdoctoral work at the Centre allemande d'histoire de l'art in Paris. She has taught History of Modern Art at the University of Amsterdam, and the history and theory of photography at Leiden University. For more information about Rachel Esner, please see link below.
- In being the managing director of the Centre for Advanced Media Research Amsterdam (CAMeRA) at the VU University Amsterdam, senior associate professor Johan F. Hoorn works in an intensively multi-disciplinary and international research environment.
Johan has two PhDs, one in literature and one in computer science. Most of his work is cognitively oriented with a focus on creative technologies such as virtual characters, emotionally intelligent agents, and AI robots. Published papers range from author identification, virtual reality, genre rules, and metaphor to user studies, requirements engineering, and software architecture. He has a patent pending regarding a user tracking system that utilizes Wii technology. Johan is the leading coordinator of the VU University's activities in the creative industries and one of the three founding members of THNK, the Amsterdam top school for creative leadership and entrepreneurship. Recently, he was granted a Lorentz Fellowship at the KNAW/NIAS to develop a unified theory of creativity.
Arjo Klamer is professor of the Economics of Art and Culture at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and holds the world's only chair in the field of cultural economics.
Prior to that and after acquiring his PhD at Duke University, he taught for many years at several universities in the US, including Wellesley College and George Washington University. In 1984, he attracted a great deal of attention with his Conversations with Economists. In his latest book, Speaking of Economics (Routledge, 2007), he pursues themes that emerged from that book. He has collaborated with Deirdre McCloskey to promote the rhetorical perspective on economics.
The Economic Conversation, a textbook forthcoming in 2008 (Palgrave)and co-authored with McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak employs a groundbreaking "open-method" approach to teaching first-year micro- and macroeconomics.
His current research focuses on the cultural dimension of economic life and the values of art. He is member of the board of various cultural organisations and chairman of the board of trustees of "Het grafisch lyceum" te Rotterdam. He is actively involved in public debates in the Netherlands and is founding director of a new university, Academia Vitae in Deventer.
- Elly Konijn is an Associate Professor in Communication Science and Chair of the Department at VU University Amsterdam. She has won the FSW (Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit) prize for best lecturer.
She is an interdisciplinary scholar, with a background in Psychology, Media Studies, and Social Scientific Information Systems. Elly Konijn studied at the University of Amsterdam, earned her PhD from Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and was a visiting scholar at the City University of New York. She received a prestigious ASPASIA grant to further explore the blurring borders between fiction and reality in contemporary media fare (including TV, film, internet and games). Her research focuses on processing information via media and the role of emotions therein.
She has published in major scientific journals, written several books, and has recently published the edited volume Mediated Interpersonal Communication (Routledge, 2008). Elly Konijn also serves on various editorial boards, and is currently co-editing the Handbook of Emotions and Mass Media (Routledge, 2009). Her fields of interest are media psychology (the underlying mechanisms and individual differences in media use and effects), emotion processes, perceived realism, and mediated interpersonal communication. Furthermore, she is interested in adolescents and video games, serious games, entertainment-education, and current developments in online virtual worlds.
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Marco de Waard is a Lecturer and Tutor at Amsterdam University College and a Research Affiliate in the Department of English at the University of Amsterdam. Marco de Waard holds MA degrees in English and Comparative Literature (University of Amsterdam) and Nineteenth-Century Studies (University of Sheffield) and obtained his PhD in History from the European University Institute in Florence. Before joining AUC in August 2009, he taught in the Department of Literary Studies at Utrecht University (2005-2007) and in the Department of English at the University of Amsterdam (2007-2009).
Among Marco de Waard's current projects is an edited book (with Joyce Goggin) titled Imagining Amsterdam: Global Visions and Revisions, based on an international conference which he co-organised in association with the Institute of Culture and History (ICG) and which took place at the University of Amsterdam in November 2009.
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