Published 12 May 2009
Dr. Rebecca Lindner is AUC's Head of Studies (Humanities) and Coordinator of the Academic English programme. She also teaches the Academic English courses at AUC.
Rebecca Lindner holds a PhD in Renaissance literature from the University of Wales (UK) and is a specialist in early-modern European literature, history, and culture. She has published on the rise of prose fiction in Britain, and her thesis examined politics and authorship in seventeenth-century British and French literary culture. Before joining AUC in 2009, she was an Assistant Professor of English at Northern Illinois University (USA), where she taught literature and women's studies. She has also worked in academic publishing and humanities research funding. Her main research and teaching interests are in literary history, academic English, and interdisciplinary practice in the humanities.
Direct phone number: +31 (0)20 525 8171
- Stephan Besser teaches Literature and the History of the Body at AUC. He 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) teaches Addiction and the Modern Subject. She 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.
- Christina Buckley holds a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Film from Tulane University (New Orleans, LA, US). Before joining AUC, she was Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Furman University (Greenville, SC, US) where she taught film, literature, language and cultural studies courses. She also taught Latin American Studies courses at the University of Amsterdam's International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as at its Faculty of Humanities from 2009 until 2011. Her main areas of research and teaching include Spanish language cinema (especially from Spain, Mexico, Cuba and the US), Cultural Theory, and Identity Studies (particularly with regard to class, nation, gender, and race and ethnicity). She is the author of numerous articles on Spanish and Latin(o) American Film and Culture, and co-authored the book Reframing Latin America: A Cultural Theory Reading of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (University of Texas Press, 2007). She hails originally from New York, but now lives in the Netherlands with her husband and two children.
- Adam Chambers teaches Film History and Academic English at AUC. 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 teaches Text and (Moving) Image at AUC. She 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 teaches Periods and Genres at AUC. She 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 teaches Narratives Across Media at AUC. He 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.
For more information about Charles Forceville, please see link below.
- Tamara van Kessel (1975) teaches The Art Market and Culture Industries. She studied Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Between 2004 and 2006 she was Events Officer at the European heritage organisation Europa Nostra based in The Hague. In June 2011 she completed her doctoral research at the UvA, resulting in the dissertation Cultural Promotion and Imperialism. The Dante Alighieri Society and the British Council Contesting the Mediterranean in the 1930s. Currently she is assistant professor at the Department of Art, Religion and Cultural Sciences of the UvA, teaching courses on sociology of the arts, cultural policy and heritage studies. For more information about Tamara van Kessel, please see the link below.
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Arjo Klamer teaches the theme course Introduction to Cities and Cultures at AUC. He 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.
- Inger Leemans (1971) teaches early modern history at AUC. Since July 2010, Inger Leemans is professor of cultural history at the VU University of Amsterdam. Prior to that, she taught cultural history at Utrecht University and Radboud University Nijmegen, while participating in a project on Dutch - German cultural exchange in the 18th and 19th century. She has taught at University College in Utrecht and at the History department of UCLA (University of California Los Angeles).
Inger Leemans has written extensively about the history of pornography, publishing editions of early modern erotic novels. Her interest in the infrastructure of cultural life and the economics of culture has resulted in research about censorship, journalism, literary criticism and the literary 'bubble' that accompanied the South Sea Bubble of the 1720's. This year, as a fellow of the NIAS (Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences), she is working on a History of Dutch 18th-century literature (project of the Taalunie).
- Chris Lorenz teaches philosophy of history and of historiography at the VU University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He did his MA Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and received his Ph.D in Philosophy at the same university in 1987. Between 1989 and 2004 he held a chair in philosophy of history in Leiden.
He published predominantly on philosophy of history, modern German and comparative historiography, and on higher education policies. He was awarded with a Alexander Von Humboldt Researchprize in Germany in 1996 and has been visiting professor in Graz (Austria), Erfurt (Germany), Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (USA). Publications by him have been translated into English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Hebrew, Korean and Chinese.
- Sylvia Mieszkowski teaches The Cinematic City at AUC. She wrote her dissertation (Teasing Narratives), on dysfunctional tales of seduction, as a member of the graduate funding group "Geschlechter-differenz & Literatur", and holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Munich University. After a post-doc period at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) she worked as an assistant professor at the Institute for English and American Studies (IEAS) at Frankfurt University, teaching literature, cultural studies and film. Preferred periods of research are the 19th and 20th centuries, theoretical cornerstones are provided by Gender Studies, Queer Theory, psychoanalysis, and discourse analysis. Her second book, More Than Meets the Ear, which tackles the interdisciplinary field of sound studies, is being prepared for publication.
- Lourens Minnema teaches World Religions - History and Politics at AUC. He has been teaching Religious Studies and Comparative Religion at the VU University (Amsterdam) since 1995. He studied Religious Studies and Comparative Religion at Kampen Theological University (NL), Birmingham Selly Oak Colleges (UK), University of Göttingen (D), Chantilly Jesuit Cultural Centre (F), and Kyoto University (JAP). His PhD in Comparative Study of Religions (1990) was a cross-cultural comparison between the Zen Buddhist world view of Keiji Nishitani and the Roman Catholic world view of Karl Rahner. He recently finished a book manuscript entitled Tragic Views of the Human Condition: Cross-cultural Comparisons between Western Views of Man and Human Nature in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy and Hindu Views of Man and Human Nature in the Mahabharata Epic and Bhagavadgita.
- Bruce Mutsvairo teaches Mass Communication at Amsterdam University College. Bruce was a NIZA scholar at Cardiff University, UK, where he earned a MA in International Journalism in 2005. His journey has encompassed over five years of professional journalism experience with the Associated Press in Amsterdam. Earlier, Bruce enjoyed a two-year international studying stint in Russia and New Zealand, where he completed a Certificate in Radio Journalism at Peter Arnett School of Journalism. A 2004 University College Utrecht graduate, he is currently completing a PhD in Political Communication at the University of Hull, England. Bruce was awarded a prestigious University of Hull fellowship for his research, which explores the use of new and social media in political campaigning and is supervised by Prof. Raphael Cohen-Almagor and Prof. Lord Philip of Louth.
- Janna Schoenberger teaches Periods and Genres and Introduction to Visual Methodologies at AUC. She studied fine art, biology and German at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. After receiving her BA she moved to Berlin, Germany with a Fulbright Grant. In 2007, she completed her MA in art history at Utrecht University. She was awarded an MPhil from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she is currently a PhD candidate. Janna moved to Amsterdam in 2011 to research her dissertation entitled, Ludic Conceptualism: Play and Art in the Netherlands from 1959 to 1975.
- Dr. Eliza Steinbock teaches the Humanities course Art and the Subject and the Academic Core subjects Academic English levels I and II at the AUC. Her fields of interest include aesthetics, visual culture, corporeal feminist theory, (post)modernism, Continental philosophy, the Frankfurt School, transgender studies, and sexuality studies.
She received a Masters in Cultural Studies (with distinction) at the University of Leeds, UK (2004). In 2006 she was awarded an Amsterdam School for Analysis (ASCA) fellowship to complete her interdisciplinary doctoral research, Shimmering Images: On Transgender Embodiment and Cinematic Aesthetics, which she defended successfully (University of Amsterdam, June 2011).
Before coming to AUC in 2010, Eliza has lectured at the Media Studies Department of the UvA, and the School for International Training’s study abroad program “International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender,” amongst other programs. At AUC, she is a core faculty member and tutor.
For more information her research and publications, please see the link below.
Direct phone number: +31 (0)20 525 5893
- Marc Tuters is a researcher in new media. He has degrees from Concordia (CDN) and University of Southern California (USA), and has worked as a artist & researcher in organizations including the Annenberg Centre, the Banff Centre, National University of Singapore, Waseda University. He is currently based in Amsterdam.
- Dr. Marco de Waard teaches the courses Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, Literature in the Age of Globalization, and Big Books at AUC. He is also a Research Affiliate in the English Literature Research Group at the University of Amsterdam, where he taught prior to coming to AUC in August 2009.
Marco de Waard holds M.A. degrees in Nineteenth-Century Studies (University of Sheffield, 2001) and in English and Comparative Literature (University of Amsterdam, 2004). He obtained his Ph.D. in History from the European University Institute, Florence (2007), where he specialized in European intellectual history. While working towards his doctoral degree he also spent a semester as visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
Before coming to AUC in 2009, he taught in the Department of Literary Studies at Utrecht University and in the Department of English at the University of Amsterdam. At AUC he is a core faculty member, a tutor, and a member of the Board of Examiners. In September 2010 he received the first AUC Teacher of the Year Award.
For more information about Marco de Waard, please see the link below.
Direct phone number: +31 (0)20 525 8168.
- Maryn Wilkinson teaches Academic English and Film and the Body at AUC. She completed her BA in Film Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury in 2002, and her MA in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick in 2003. Her PhD thesis on feminist film theory (Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis) is expected to be completed by early 2011, and is entitled Wondergirls: the Representation of Teenage Girls in 1980s American Cinema.
Maryn has been part of the teaching staff at the department of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam since 2004, where she has subjected many a student to her enduring love for all things Bruce Springsteen, Shah Rukh Khan, Cary Grant and Molly Ringwald. She continues to do so now in her new role as a member of the Academic Core Staff at Amsterdam University College.
Direct phone number: +31 (0)20 525 5899
- Arno Witte (1968) teaches the Representing the City through History course at AUC. He is assistant professor in Cultural Policy, coordinator of the MA programme of Dutch Art in European Context, and he is also Head of Studies of the department Art, Religion and Cultural Studies of the UvA. Moreover, since 2005 he is honorary secretary (and former webmaster) of the Dutch Society for Italian Studies (Werkgroep Italiestudies).
For more information on Arno Witte, please see the link below.
- Marcel Worring teaches Information Visualisation at AUC. He 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.
Source: AUC
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