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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.<\/p>\n

Ongoing projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u266b – The Queer Mermaid<\/a>. Together with various (other) artists, such as Syl\u00e9<\/a>, I am designing an RPG with a gang of queer mermaids as its main characters.<\/p>\n

\u266b – Jazz Jennings’s transmedial transformation of transition.<\/p>\n

\u266b – “Meerminnen”. An article about this song by Maria Zwollo-v.d. Maas and Louis Couperus.<\/p>\n

\u266b – A Mermaid’s Soul Beliefs. The concept of the soul in 20th century storytelling.<\/p>\n

\"soul\"
\nSoulless creatures?<\/i><\/p>\n

Recent work:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u266b – The Bubbling Mermaid<\/a> – or: how Internet invites the personal to become public.<\/p>\n

\u266b – The Bisexual Mermaid<\/a> – Andersen’s fairy tale as an allegory of the bi-romantic sexual outsider.<\/p>\n

\u266b – Geografie<\/a> – various publications about mermaids in the journal of The Royal Dutch Geographical Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u266b – The Cyborg Mermaid<\/a> – or: how techn\u00e8 can help the misfits fit in.<\/p>\n

\u266b – Celtic Mermaids<\/a> – between longing and belonging.<\/p>\n

\u266b – Hellen(ist)ic Mermaids<\/a> – between longing and belonging.<\/p>\n

\u266b – Mermaids in Video Games<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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