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Susanne Ferwerda is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, where she teaches a variety of courses in Literary Studies and Environmental Humanities at both BA and MA/RMA levels. She is actively involved in the Network for Environmental Humanities and participates in interdisciplinary research projects such as 'Whose Ocean?' (2023-25) and the 'NATURICITY' Incubator Project (2022-23). In 2022, she became a Greenhouse Green Transitions Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger, Norway, focusing on the project 'green' Green Transitions. Her research outputs include publications in the Environmental Humanities journal, as well as contributions to notable works such as Extinction Memorial Culture (2023) and forthcoming pieces in the Regeneration Blue Humanities Handbook (2026). Susanne completed her PhD in English at the University of Tasmania, Australia, with a dissertation titled "Blue Ocean Stories: Climate Colonialism Narrative Disruption Oceania." Her research critically investigates contemporary art and literature from Oceania, addressing the impacts of colonialism and advocating for decolonial narrative disruption through the lens of anti-colonial theory, Indigenous studies, and feminist theory. Key themes in her work include the Pacific Ocean, extinction, migration, (de)nuclearization, and extractive colonial economies.
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