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Niels Niessen is an Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, specializing in Culture Studies within the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences. He completed his Ph.D. in 2013 in Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. Niessen's research focuses on everyday life and cinema, particularly in the context of streaming media studies, feminism, queer theory, and the literacy of both analogue and digital forms. Since 2019, he has worked on a project funded by the European Research Council entitled 'Platform Discourses: A Critical Humanities Approach to Big Tech Companies'. Recently, he has been engaged in writing a book titled 'Big Tech Colonizes Everyday Life—and Resist.' He has published essays addressing various topics including Apple, 'Black Panther', Kendrick Lamar, and David Lynch. In addition to his research, he has taught courses such as the PhD MA seminar 'Minor Movements: Creating Space for Personal Political Change' at the Research School Gender Studies in the Netherlands and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis. His academic contributions have also appeared in notable publications, exploring the intersections of culture, media, and society.
Tilburg University • Tilburg, Netherlands
Focus on research and teaching within the realm of Culture Studies.
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