After obtaining my MA in musicology, Russian literature and cultural analysis, I started researching mermaids in music. Now, I am working on a PhD on the topic of how modern media invite people to create new mermaid stories. Ongoing projects: ♫ – The Queer Mermaid. Together with various (other) artists, such as Sylé, I am designing an RPG with a gang of queer mermaids as its main characters. ♫ – Jazz Jennings’s transmedial transformation of transition. ♫ – “Meerminnen”. An article about this song by Maria Zwollo-v.d. Maas and Louis Couperus. ♫ – A Mermaid’s Soul Beliefs. The concept of the soul in 20th century storytelling. Soulless creatures? Recent work: ♫ – The Bubbling Mermaid – or: how Internet invites the personal to become public. ♫ – …

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