Susanne C. Knittel is associate professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. She is the coordinator of the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies and the co-director of the Network for Environmental Humanities. Her research revolves around the figure of the perpetrator in cultural memory and memory politics, and the cultural representation of the genocide-ecocide nexus.
Ifor Duncan is Postdoctoral Researcher on the EcoViolence project at Utrecht University. His inter-disciplinary research and art-practice focuses on political violence in the contexts of devastated river systems and dispossessed communities.
Salomé Lopes Coelho is a scholar of film and art studies working at the intersection of aesthetics, cinema, and the environmental humanities. Her research investigates the rhythms of vegetal and inorganic matter in contemporary experimental cinema, with a focus on the work of women filmmakers and artists from Latin America, approached through a feminist posthumanist and ecomaterialist lens.
Sofia Lovegrove is a PhD candidate in the EcoViolence project. Her research and work lie at the intersection of cultural memory, museums and critical heritage studies and decolonial critique and practices. Within this project, Sofia focusses on how museums frame and remember environmental degradation as violence.
Tom van Bunnik is a PhD candidate in the EcoViolence project. His work is situated within the fields of ecopoetics, ecocriticism, and cultural memory studies. Tom’s research focuses on how contemporary eco-poetry frames and remembers environmental degradation as violence.
Bianca Visser supports the ERC research project Ecologies of Violence as a project coordinator. As such, she is responsible for the day-to-day management, carries out administrative tasks, coordinates conferences and ensures that the website is up-to-date. She also contributes to the reports that have to be delivered every so often to the ERC. Bianca is, together with the PI, the primary contact point for questions about the project. Please don’t hesitate to reach out should you have a question about our activities.
Advisory board
Diana Taylor, University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University, USA. Areas of expertise: theatre and performance studies, trauma studies, Latin America.
Michael Rothberg, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Areas of expertise: Holocaust and postcolonial studies, theories of implication, contemporary literature and culture.
Mia You, Assistant Professor of English, Utrecht University, NL. Areas of expertise: poetry, eco-poetics, creative writing, multilingual poetics, contemporary literature.
Brad Prager, Professor of German and Film Studies, University of Missouri, USA. Areas of expertise: contemporary cinema, documentary cinema, Holocaust education.
Lynn Turner, Reader in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Areas of expertise: art history and theory, contemporary visual culture, environmental humanities, animal studies.
Michalinos Zembylas, Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies, Open University of Cyprus. Areas of expertise: emotion and affect in relation to social justice pedagogies, intercultural and peace education, human rights education and citizenship education.