Los Angeles, California, United States
As Editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Popular Culture Review (Wiley) I ensure Popular Culture Review publishes compelling, well-argued, and well-researched articles on a variety of topics related to popular culture. More traditional forms of popular culture are welcomed as well as emerging ones. Besides advancing the journals’ academic rigour, I aim to strenghten the journal’s expertise in popular culture in relation to globalisation, non-Western contexts, and cultural memory.
While at UCLA's Department of Comparative Literature, I will work on my NWO Rubicon project "Gastronational Memories: Postcolonial food media and ownership of intangible cultural heritage of a shared colonial past".
As an Assistant Professor I continue my research on Dutch and Indonesian cultural memory and media in regard to postcolonial Indonesia and the Dutch East Indies. At the same time I will be teaching and supervising students in the BA Media and Culture as well as the MA Film Studies, the MA Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, and the MA Documentaire en fictie.
'Indische Letteren' is the academic journal of the Working Group Indo-Dutch Literature, a working group of the Society of Dutch Literature. The quarterly journal was founded in 1986 and has since primarily focused on Dutch-East Indies literature, but also publishes articles on topics that address Dutch East Indies literature in media, history, theatre and art. As an editor of 'Indische Letteren' I am alternatingly -and in collaboration with the other editors- responsible for arranging topics and speakers for the ongoing lecture series; editing submitted journal articles; approaching speakers for the annual ‘Indische Letterenlezing’ and organising the annual symposium in Bronbeek. The other editors are currently Rick Honings (editor-in-chief), Peter van Zonneveld (chairman), Coen van ’t Veer (treasurer), Jacqueline Bel, Geert Onno Prins, Inge Tromp and Petra Boudewijn.
During my time as Residential Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Loughborough University, I have been working on my book projects as well as collaborating with scholars from the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture such as Emily Keightley, who is Professor of Media and Memory Studies.