Experience

KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen

• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Interim Policy Officer

  • Dec 2022 - Present



MarieB. Atelier

• Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Creative Entrepreneur

  • May 2021 - Present



Academy of Theatre and Dance

• Netherlands
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Guest Teacher

  • Aug 2017 - Present

  - Workshops engaging the notion of citizenship ("acts of citizenship in particular") for students in creative producing (both BA and MA programs) - Workshops engaging the notion of citizenship ("acts of citizenship in particular") for students in creative producing (both BA and MA programs)



Queen Mary University of London

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc fellow

  • May 2019 - May 2021

  Passionate about creative reading and creative writing, my work engages with the histories of norms that define our political, juridical, and scientific landscape. An expert on citizenship deprivation as a technology of government, my work empirically engages with themes such as citizenship, migration, and security. In terms of methods, I’m most familiar with a genealogical approach to contemporary phenomena. This means that my departure point is to wonder: which are the conditions of possibilities that have enabled a norm to become legitimate? Whose voice does a norm, a law, a political standpoint, represent? And whose voices does it repress, negate, disallow? When practicing creative reading, I engage with reading methods from literary studies to read juridical and political texts. When practicing creative writing, I seek to allow for multiple voices to enter the text, thereby giving space for the multiple layers of knowledge that contribute to our understanding of the world, whether rational, affective, or intuitive. Show less



University of Amsterdam

• Netherlands
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer at the College of PPLE, and in Literary and Cultural Analysis

  • Aug 2015 - Aug 2019

  Courses taught:PPLE:- Power, Politics and Governance I (BA 1st year)- Rhetoric (BA 1st year)- Integrative Seminar: Human Rights Politics (BA 1st year)- Configurations of Citizenship (BA 2nd year)- Thesis (BA) (supervision + coordination)- Personal student mentorLiterary and Cultural Analysis:- Thesis supervision (BA, MA and RMA)

• PhD candidate and lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis

  • Sep 2011 - Sep 2015

  Title PhD: Affective Identities: Denaturalization and the Politics of Nationality in FranceSynopsis:My dissertation investigates the prominence of denaturalization within the politics of citizenship and nationality in France. Combining research insights from history, legal studies, security studies, and narratology, it demonstrates that the language of denaturalization shapes national identity both as a form of formal legal attachment and—predominantly—as a mode of emotional belonging. As such, denaturalization operates as an instrumental frame to maintain and secure the national community. Going back to eighteenth-century France and to both World Wars, periods during which governments deployed denaturalization as a weapon against "threatening" subjects, the analysis exposes how the language of denaturalization interweaves concerns about immigration and national security. It is this historical backdrop that helps understand the political impact of denaturalization in contemporary counterterrorism politics, and what is at stake when borders and identities become political weapons.Courses taught in Literary Studies and Cultural Analysis: - 7 masterpieces (BA elective humanities 2nd and 3rd years)- Textual Analysis (BA; Core course in the Comparative Literature programme)- Cultural Conflicts (BA; elective course of the department Languages and Literature; The Politics of Language, Literature and Culture (minor); Undergraduate Certificate Programme in Humanities)- Thesis supervision (BA, MA and RMA) Show less



Université libre de Bruxelles

• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD visiting fellow

  • Sep 2012 - Dec 2012

  Visiting fellowship at the Centre of Political Theory (CTP). Collaboration with Teresa Pullano. Visiting fellowship at the Centre of Political Theory (CTP). Collaboration with Teresa Pullano.



University of London Institute in Paris

• France
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• PhD guest researcher

  • Jan 2012 - Mar 2012

  - Archival research on denaturalization discourses in France. - Archival research on denaturalization discourses in France.



University College Maastricht

• Netherlands
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Tutor in Political Philosophy

  • Apr 2011 - Jul 2011

  - Tutor in the course Political Philosophy (introductory course) supervised by Dr Philipp Dorstewitz. - Tutor in the course Political Philosophy (introductory course) supervised by Dr Philipp Dorstewitz.



Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

• Netherlands
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sales assistant

  • Mar 2008 - Apr 2011

  Financial and general administrative tasks, tickets sales and information supply.

• Audience attendant, Production assistant

  • Oct 2005 - Mar 2008

  Responsible for safety measures, audience attendance, and productional assistance during public events.



La Vie sur Terre Foundation

• Production assistant

  • Mar 2008 - May 2008

  Coordinator hospitality for musicians from the Middle East. Coordinator hospitality for musicians from the Middle East.



Entrée, Vereniging Jong Publiek van het Concertgebouw en het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest

• Board Member

  • Aug 2006 - Nov 2007

  Elaborating, conducting and realising (international) events in cooperation with the Concertgebouw and the Royal Orchestra of the Concertgebouw. Bij Entrée heb ik gewerkt aan jongeren te enthousiasmeren om naar muziek te komen luisteren. Naast bestuurlijke taken heb ik creatieve marketing campagnes uitgevoerd, was productioneel medeverantwoordelijk voor een kinderpersconferentie en ‘SOUK 2 Dutch Arabic Music and Dance’, en tot slot was ik eindverantwoordelijk voor het Entrée Kamermuziekconcours voor jonge amateursmusici. Show less



La Branche

• Savigny, Switserland

• Caretaker for people with a disability

  • Aug 2003 - Dec 2003

  Daily care for people with severe mental disabilities. This job has taught be more about people than anything else. I remember a banal morning: I was showering an elderly man, helping him to put cloths on, giving him his medicines which included an injection in his upper arm. I realized how much he was dependent upon us, his care takers, and how he might feel having to deal with new people at his side, again and again, sharing parts of his most intimate life. I felt a tremendous respect for his patience, and I felt a deep responsibility to be there for him while keeping a decent distance. Show less