C U R R I C U L U M  V I T A E

Education

September 2009 – June 2010 PhD Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Roehampton University, London, UK. Dissertation entitled: AcKNOWLEDGEing Bodies: Intimate Entanglements of Science and Technology in Contemporary Dance Performance.

September 2008 – August 2009  PhD Humanities, York University, Toronto, Canada

February 2007 – August 2007  Master Comparative Women’s Studies in Culture and Politics, Utrecht University (Diploma dated August 29th 2007). Final thesis: Stitch and Split: Feminist Alternatives to Frankensteinian Myths in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl.

September 1998 – May 2007  Doctoraal English Literature and Culture, Utrecht University (Diploma dated August 31st 2007, Cum Laude). Final thesis: Multiplying Narratives, Disclosing Bodies: Story-Telling and Embodiment in Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry and The Powerbook.

September 2003 – December 2006  Research Master Gender and Ethnicity, Utrecht University (completed except Master’s thesis)

January 2001 – July 2001  University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. One semester as an undergraduate Arts student

August 2000  Heriott-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. Intensive course in literature, economics, law and drama.

Selected additional courses

2005 – 2006  Literature study on psychoanalytic theories supervised by Prof. dr. Rosemarie Buikema

2004 – 2005  PhD seminars on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze supervised by Prof. Dr. Rosi Braidotti and Prof. Dr. Anneke Smelik

2003 – 2006  PhD Courses at the Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies (NOV).

Selected work experience

August 2010 – present Teacher at the English Teacher Training Programme at the University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool Utrecht) in Utrecht. Areas: academic writing, language proficiency, Shakespeare studies, youth literature, and drama.

February 2010 – April 2010  Project Assistant at Human European Consultancy, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Tasks included website management, conference planning, and editing and translation of tenders and project rapports for the European Commission.

September 2009 – present  Owner of Denying Floors: translation and text editing service. Specialised in academic texts in the fields of visual studies, dance and performance studies, feminist theory, and contemporary philosophy.

September 2008 – August 2009  Teaching Assistant, York University. TA of the undergraduate course in Humanities, “The Networked Imagination” (HUMA 1650); course director Dr. Steve Bailey.

February 2008 – June 2008  Junior Teacher, English Department, Utrecht University.   Teacher of various Bachelor level courses, including: ‘Creative Writing’, ‘International Journalism’, ‘English for Social Sciences’, and ‘Accurate English – Writing & Speaking’.

September 2007 – February 2008  Teacher of English, James Boswell Institute, Utrecht University. Teacher of: “English Level 3”, “Teaching your Subject in English”, “English for Academic Purposes”.

October 2007 – January 2008  Assistant Project Manager, EU Liaison Office, Utrecht University. Management assistance of three projects financed by the European Commission.

October 2003 – January 2007  Assistant coordinator Gender Graduate Programme (GGeP), Utrecht. Main responsibilities included developing PhD courses and organising the annual NOISE summer school in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Letter of recommendation available on request.

April – June 2006 & April – June 2007  Assistant Teacher, University College Utrecht (UCU). Coaching of students of the Dance as Symbols and Signposts course; selecting course materials, assisting in final production, stage design. Letter of recommendation available on request.

January 2002 – June 2002  English teacher, James Boswell Institute, Utrecht. Intensive TOEFL® training for Chinese students.

January 1999 – June 2000  Teaching assistant Department of English, Utrecht University. Development and grading of written and oral examinations.

Publications

•   Translation to Dutch of Donna Haraway’s “Able Bodies and Companion Species” in the art exhibition catalogue Niet Normaal: Diversiteit in Kunst, Cultuur en Wetenschap. Ine Grevers (ed.), 278-287. NAi Uitgevers, Rotterdam, 2009. ISBN 978 90 5662 714 0.

•    Article “Linking and Stitching: Patchworking Collective Knowledge in Hypertext Fiction” in: fragmentation of perception / perception of fragmentation – forthcoming

•    Braidotti, Rosi and Annabel van Baren (Eds.). The Making of European Women’s Studies, volume VI. A Work in Progress Report on Curriculum Development and Related Issues. ATHENA, Advanced Thematic Network in Activities in Women’s Studies in Europe. Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 2005. ISBN 90 806128 5 5

Conference presentations

•    “Dissecting Dancing Bodies: Science and Technology as Sites/Sights of Enquiry in “The Autopsy Project”. Presentation at the 7th European Feminist Research Conference on “Gendered Cultures at the Crossroads of Imagination, Knowledge and Politics”, at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, held from the 4th of June to the 7th of June, 2009.

•    Panel proposal “Bodies Transformed and Transduced: The Politics and Poetics of Sensation as Embodied Knowledge” for the “Bodies of Knowledge” Multi-Disciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Physical Education and Health, held on the 8th of May, 2009. Paper entitled “Of Wet Bodies and Hard Objects: Tropes of Scientific Knowledge Production in André Gingras’ Choreography “The Autopsy Project”.

•    Panel proposal “Choreographed bodies: movement, technology, and the sensorium” for the “Bodies in Motion” Interdisciplinary Graduate conference at the University of Rhode Island, held on the 28th of March, 2009. Paper entitled Wetware vs. Hardware? Moving Science and Technology through Choreographed Dissections.

•    “Linking and Stitching: Patchworking Collective Knowledge in Hypertext Fiction”. Presentation at the 17th Archaeology and Theory Symposium at Leiden University, the Netherlands, on the 26th of January, 2008.

•    “Choreographed Apparitions: Sense(s) and Mediation in Enter Ghost”. Paper presentation at Uncanny Media: International conference on the gothic shadows of mediation, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 7-9 August 2008

Graduate Courses undertaken (selection)

University College Dublin         Writing and Gender
University College Dublin        Irish Postmodernism
Utrecht University            Modern British Drama
Utrecht University            Masculinity and World War I
Utrecht University            Eros & Pathos
Utrecht University            Feminist Theory
Utrecht University            Transitions in Post-Apartheid S.A.
Utrecht University            Technobodies in Cyberspace
Utrecht University            Historiography of Feminist Ideas
Utrecht University            Politics of Representation
Utrecht University            New Media New Citizenship
Utrecht University            Deleuze Seminar
York University            Critical Methodologies in Humanities Research
York University            Culture and Technology
University of Toronto        The Performing Body

Selected extra-curricular activities

February 2009 – August 2009  Co-organiser series of events Art Meets Science at York University, including keynote lectures, exhibition, and workshops.

September 2008 – August 2009  Secretary, Humanities Graduate Student’s Association (HuGSA), York University, Toronto.

September 2003 – July 2008  Co-founder and president of the Gender Studies student organisation in Utrecht. Activities include organising seminars, workshops, and student coaching.

September 1999 – September 2000  PR-manager of SUDS (Students of Utrecht Drama Society). Active in a number of plays. Responsible for budgeting and communication between actors, producers and SUDS

Selected performances

February 2005 – May 2005  Acted in a trans-national benefit performance of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, in Utrecht. Assisted the director, was responsible for PR-management and finances.

January 2005 – April 2005  Choreography and performance in the SpringDance community-art project entitled [U] Bevind[t] Zich Hier (You Are Located Here)

January 2005 – May 2005  Organisation of a performance of Adelheid Roosen’s De Gesluierde Monologen [The Veiled Monologues] in a Utrecht community centre.

Collaborations

André Gingras: Hypertopia & Trans/Form & The Autopsy Project
Ivana Müller: While We Were Holding it Together
Emio Greco / PC: Salon de Danse

Membership of Research Networks

Vereniging voor Dansonderzoek in Nederland (VDO) – the Association for Dance Research in the Netherlands.
ATACD – A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics.
WeAVE - a network for European gender studies students, postgraduate students, PhDs, post-doc researchers.
The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES), York University, Canada.

Languages
Dutch:          native
English:       native (bilingual)
German:      intermediate
French:        intermediate
Italian:         beginner

Computer skills
Windows 7, Vista and XP, LINUX, Microsoft Office, CMS (Joomla!, WordPress and Alfresco) and HTML.