Teaching

Experience

I teach introductory and advanced courses and workshops in philosophy and cultural analysis. As a curious intellectual and academic, I teach within and beyond my core specialization.

My teaching has, so far, included teaching and coordinating courses and BA thesis supervision at Universiteit van Amsterdam, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, RU Bochum, and Universität Münster, in:

  • social and cultural theory
  • philosophy of science
  • social and political philosophy
  • philosophical anthropology
  • gender studies
  • cultural analysis
  • philosophy of language and cognition

Courses Taught

  • “Philosophy of Science and Humanities” BA seminar
  • “Introduction to Philosophy of Language and Cognition” MA seminar
  • “Menselijk bestaan: De toekomst van (het zelfbegrip van) de mens” (Human existence: The future of (the self-understanding of) the human) Bachelor philosophy thesis course
  • “Analyzing Texts and Arguments” BA philosophy core seminar
  • “Back to the Object/Practicing Cultural Analysis“, BA Literary and Cultural Analysis, core course.
  • “20th Century Cultural Theories“, BA Literary and Cultural Analysis, core course.
  • “Conjunctural Analysis:Populism, Ecoprecarity, and AI as articulations of crisis”, MA seminar, Comparative Cultural Analysis.
  • “Critical Histories: Literary and Cultural Theory before 1900“, BA LCA, core seminar
  • “Art, Science, Technology“, BA seminar, Literary and Cultural Analysis
  • “Global Identity Experience“, liberal arts Bachelor seminar
  • “Working With Concepts: Porn, Virus, Author, Trans“, BA seminar, Literary and Cultural Analysis
  • “Theories of Justice“, MA seminar, Philosophy
  • “Feminism and Philosophy“, BA lecture course, Philosophy
  • “Conspiracy theories: introduction to theory and practice of critical thinking” [“Verschwörungstheorien — Einführung in die Theorie und Praxis kritischen Denkens”], BA seminar, philosophy of science
  • “Interpretations of Sex in Philosophy & Cultural Studies” [“”Natürlich, wild, frei’: Zentrale Interpretationen von sex in Philosophie und Cultural Studies”], BA seminar political science
  • “Scientific Facts or Artefacts of Science? Scientific Realism Contested” [“Wissenschaftliche Fakten oder Artefakte der Wissenschaft? Wissenschaftlicher Realismus und seine Herausforderungen”], BA seminar, philosophy of science

Further Teaching Experience

  • 2020 & 2021: Workshops on conceptions of gender (with dr. Katrine Smiet, at Nederlandse Organisatie voor Gender Studies).
  • 2021 UvA, Teaching Assistant, pan-humanities Master elective course “Art & Activism”, taught by dr. Sruti Bala & dr. Elize Mazadiego.
  • 2019 & 2020 Guest lectures on Judith Butler and Hannah Arendt (ReMA Philosophy at UvA; and BA program at Ciee)
  • 2019  UvA, “Sexual violence and hegemonic masculinity: An analysis of Connell’s concept of ‘hegemonic masculinity'” [“Seksueel geweld en hegemonische mannelijkheid: Een analyse aan de hand van het begrip ‘hegemonische mannelijkheid’ van Connell”], Bachelor Philosophy thesis supervision (with dr. Karen Vintges).