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On this page you will find a selection of my paper presentations, which are in connection with my thinking about the Cyborg Mermaid. More can be found via Academia, Google Scholar and Research Gate. *** Nehalenia’s Nachleben: A Celtic-Roman Goddess in the 21st Century – July 6 2021 at the International Medieval Congress 2021, University of Leeds, UK. Playing (With) Alfred: An ‘Auti-Ethnographic’ Analysis of the Portrayal of Alfred the Great (849-899) in Two 21st-Century Computer Games – July 9 2020 at the International Medieval Congress 2021, University of Leeds, UK. Collaging / Mindmapping / Zine making with your research [workshop] at the International Medieval Congress 2020, University of Leeds, UK.#KingAlfred – the historical re-imagination of King Alfred of Wessex (847/49-899) in early 21st century multimedia – 25th Medieval Studies Day, …

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On this page you will find a selection of my publications, which are in connection with my thinking about the Cyborg Mermaid. More publications (for example on Celtology, autism and classical music) can be found via Academia, Google Scholar and Research Gate. *** Mussies, M. (2010). Keltische meerminnen: Tussen verlangen en vrees. Kelten: Mededelingen van de Stichting A. G. van Hamel Voor Keltische Studies. Mussies, M. (2012). Hoe Keltisch is “Ondine”? Kelten: Mededelingen van de Stichting A. G. van Hamel voor Keltische Studies, 55, 2–4. Mussies, M. (2016a). De “fantastische” geografie van De Kleine Zeemeermin. Geografie (Vakblad van het Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap). Mussies, M. (2016b). The Bisexual Mermaid: Andersen’s fairy tale as an allegory of the bi-romantic sexual outsider. Full-Text of a Presentation at EuroBiCon. Mussies, …

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New year's holiday concept

It was and is a strange year, 2020. Nevertheless, a lot of great things have happened for me personally. I have been given many good opportunities and therefore I could achieve almost all of my 2020 goals. So now, on these (for me) “Churchless” Christmas Days, just days away from 2021, it is time to write my New Year’s resolutions for 2021! And I hope that these will also inspire you to enter 2021 with a wish to make the world a better place.

As you can imagine, the transmedial storytelling around Wiedźmin [The Witcher] combines many of my interests. Therefore, I wish to contribute to this phenomenon by means of a new translation (from Polish to English) of the short stories from the collection Ostatnie życzenie (The Last Wish) by Andrzej Sapkowski. This is the fifth story – with many thanks to my teacher Sławomir! Please let me know if you have any comments or suggestions.

Once in a while, you come across a piece of writing that deeply resonates with what lives inside you, in words you did not have yet. That happened to me, on a sleepless night. I fell in a YouTube rabbit hole and ended up at a recording of Adrienne Rich’ ‘Diving Into the Wreck’, a feminist poem from 1973.

For The Art of Autism and Proud2Bme, I wrote this blog about the challenges around eating that persons with ASD might face. An abridged version (in Dutch) was also published in Lister magazine UP.

Next to my artistic research, I am also involved in academic research. On this page, you can read more about my current academic research projects. I mainly focus on three themes – the Cyborg Mermaid, Inside the Autside, and #KingAlfred – but also dabble in related subjects. As an academic, my keywords are autism, cyborgs, fanart, games, languages, medievalism, mermaids, music(ology), (neuro)psychology. The Cyborg Mermaid As a PhD student at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, I am writing my thesis about the Cyborg Mermaid, or to be more concrete: about the ways modern media empower people to create new stories based on mermaid mythology. What fascinates me most about the study of fantastic beings is that the way in which we shape them tells us so …

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