Dr. Esther Peeren

Biography

Esther Peeren is a Professor of Cultural Analysis and the Academic Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the processes of marginalization, questions of agency, and the underilluminated impact of globalization on rural areas. She leads the ERC-funded project "Imagining Rural Globalizing World," employing a comparative approach to analyze the crucial role cultural imaginations play in rural literature, film, and television. Esther's interests encompass popular culture, modern literary and cultural theory, 20th- and 21st-century British and American literature, film, and television. Her significant publications include 'Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts Agency Invisibility' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and she has made extensive contributions to scholarly discourse on the topic of spectrality in contemporary culture. With past positions as an Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam and a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford, she has established herself as a leading voice in her field.

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