Programme director

Prof Mireille Rosello

Core lecturers

Murat Aydemir
is assistant professor in comparative literature and cultural analysis. As research leader courtesy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, he advises over a dozen PhD projects. His Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning (2007) is published by Minnesota University Press. The book analyzes representations and conceptualizations of male orgasm, ejaculation, and semen in literature (Proust), theory (Lacan, Barthes, Derrida, Bataille), art (Andres Serrano) and film (hard-core pornography). He is currently working on two edited volumes, Indiscretions: At the Intersection Between Queer and Postcolonial Theory and Migrant Settings, and on a new book-length study, titled Islands, Deserts, Poles: Landscapes of the Future. 

Sophie Berrebi 
is assistant professor of art history, with an emphasis on the history and theory of photography. Her research interests include contemporary art and globalization, and document and documentary in contemporary art theories of modernism. She is currently working on a book on modernism and the work of Jean Dubuffet.

Joost de Bloois
holds a degree from the University of Utrecht and is assistant professor of literary studies. He has written on Bataille, Derrida and Deleuze and is editor of Discern(e)ments: Deleuzian Aesthetics/Esthetiques deleuziennes. New York/Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.

Deborah Cherry
is professor of Contemorary and Modern art at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, with interests in contemporary art, installation and the senses. Her recent publications include Location, 2007, edited with Fintan Cullen; About Stephen Bann, 2006; Local/Global, 2005; and Art: History: Visual: Culture, 2005. She is currently editing a collection of essays entitled About Mieke Bal. She is the editor of the journal, Art History.

Mireille Rosello
is  professor of comparative analysis at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Her most recent books are: France and the Maghreb: Performative Encounters (UPF 2005) and its French version Encontres méditerranéennes (Harmattan 2006); Postcolonial Hospitality: The immigrant as guest (Stanford UP 2001). Her research interests are diasporic and migrant voices in literature and cinema (Caribbean, Maghreb and Europe).

Affiliated faculty members:

Joyce Goggin
is assistant professor of literature and film. She holds degrees from the University of Toronto and Université de Montréal, where she wrote a dissertation on card games in twentieth -century fiction. She previously taught in Canada, and at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

Catherine Lord
is assistant professor of film and television studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. In her publications, she develops a new model for creative reading, not just between different artists, but between theorists and artists. She is also working on two short films.