Published 12 May 2009
Dr. Rebecca Lindner is AUC's Head of Studies (Humanities). Before joining Amsterdam University College , Rebecca Lindner was Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Northern Illinois University (USA), where she taught literature and women's studies.
She holds an MA in Literary Studies and a PhD in Renaissance Literature from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UK). Her main research and teaching interests are in early modern literature, reader reception, women's journal writing, and academic English. Direct phone number: +31 (0)20 525 8171
- Stephan Besser has been teaching Literature at the University of Amsterdam since 2008.
He studied Germanic studies, Literature, History and Media Studies in Marburg, at the University of Amsterdam and at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin. In Berlin, he was also member of a research project on cultural and literary history of German colonialism. His PhD thesis entitled, "Pathography of Tropical," concerns the construction of the tropics as a zone of madness, illness and infection in literature, medicine and colonial discourses around 1900. His interest centre around the poetics of knowledge in different media and discourses, and literature as interdiscursive phenomenon.
- Gemma Blok (1970) studied history at the University of Amsterdam. After her studies, she worked at the Trimbos Institute of Mental Health and Addiction in Utrecht, where she specialised in the history of psychiatry.
From 1998 to 2003, Gemma engaged in doctoral research at the University of Amsterdam, which resulted in the dissertation "Boss in your own brain. ‘Anti-Psychiatry' in the Netherlands, 1965-1985," (Amsterdam 2004). In 2004, she worked on the design of semi-permanent exhibition of Het Dolhuys, National Museum of Psychiatry in Haarlem. From 2005-2009, Dr. Blok worked on her post doctoral research entitled, "Converting the addict: Addiction treatment in the Netherlands during the Twentieth Century ," She is now a university lecturer in the Department of Dutch History of the UvA and a guest lecturer in the Master of Medical History at the VU University Amsterdam.
- Adam Chambers is a Lecturer in Film at Amsterdam University College.
After receiving his BA in literature and cinema studies from McGill University (Montreal, Canada), and a Master's of Philosophy in Humanities from Memorial University (St. John's, Canada), Adam moved to Amsterdam in 2007 to pursue his Doctoral studies at the University of Amsterdam. As a research affiliate of both the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), Adam conducts research on the relationship between twentieth-century French Philosophy and contemporary European cinema. His PhD thesis is supported by the institute's "Visual Analysis Research Group, 2008-2012", a project devoted to the study of aesthetics and theories of the image in contemporary culture. Adam is also a member of the European Network for Cinema and New Media Studies (NECS).
In addition to researching and lecturing on cinema, Adam is also a practicing filmmaker.
- Laura Copier studied Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She completed her PhD at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Her dissertation, entitled "Preposterous Revelations: Visions of Apocalypse and Martyrdom in Hollywood Cinema 1980 - 2000", focuses on representations of the Apocalypse and notions of martyrdom in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Currently, she is a lecturer both at the Media and Culture department as well as the department of Religion Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
- 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.
- Charles Forceville is Associate professor in the Faculty of Humanities at UvA.
For the past ten years, Forceville has worked in the Media Studies department, where he directs the Research MA program. He studied English at the VU University Amsterdam and held part-time appointments in the English, Word & Image, and Comparative Literature departments at his alma mater from 1988-1999.
His PhD dissertation (VU 1994), funded by the Dutch National Science Council was published by Routledge (Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising, 1996). He did a post-doc on "Narration in Fiction and Film" at the Universiteit Leyden and in 2009 co-edited, with Eduardo Urios-Aparisi, Multimodal Metaphor (Mouton de Gruyter).
In 2008 he was Fellow, with Kurt Feyaerts and Tony Veale, at the Royal Flemish Academy (VLAC) in Brussels, Belgium, working on the project The Agile Mind: Creativity in Models and Multimodal Discourse.
Forceville's teaching and research interests include documentary film, animation, advertising, comics, and cartoons. From 1987-2007 he regularly reviewed English-language fiction for Trouw.
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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.
- David B. Nieborg is a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, department of Media and Culture studies and a PhD student at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) where his thesis discusses the political economy of the game industry.
Nieborg has published his work on new media and digital culture and the implications of the interaction between commercial game culture, technology, marketing and military culture. He earned his Master's in Media Studies at Utrecht University, and was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. David works as a curator, consultant and as a journalist he writes for various Dutch newspapers, blogs and (online) magazines.
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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.
For more information about Marco de Waard, please see link below.
- Marcel Worring is Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, and lectures in Information Visualization, Visual Analysis and Visual Analytics.
After obtaining a master in Computer Science from the VU University Amsterdam, Marcel became a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam, where he is now employed as an associate professor. During his PhD, he was a visiting scholar at Yale University working on medical computer vision and later at the University of California San Diego where he worked on automated indexing of film. His research focus is on Multimedia Analytics, the integration of Multimedia Analysis, Multimedia Mining, Information Visualization, and Multimedia Interaction into a coherent framework which yields more than its constituent components.
For more information about Marcel Worring, please see link below.
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