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Name: Annie van den Oever
Location: FADA Building Bunting Road Campus
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About Prof. Annie van den Oever
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Annie van den Oever is a writer and scholar, and the author/editor of over a dozen books and close to a hundred articles and book chapters in the fields of film theory, aesthetics of technology, visual media, experimental media archaeology, and the theory and history of the grotesque. She was a Professor of Film and Head of the Film Archive & Media Archaeology Lab at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (until 2024), and Professor by special appointment to the chair in “Film and Visual Media” at the University of the Free State in South Africa (2011-2023). She was a Research Fellow at Utrecht University, at the Research Centre for Gender Studies in the Netherlands (2008); a Visiting Professor and Associated Researcher for Cinema and Audiovisual Studies at the Research Institute ACTE – UMRS CNRS, Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne, in 2016; and a Research Fellow at the University of Luxembourg in 2019-2020. She is now the 2024 Guest Professor for Film at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. She has recently been appointed as a Distinguished Visiting Professor and Associated Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg.
Before she specialized in film and cinema studies in the second half of the 1990s, she was an awarded literary writer (Dame in Broekpak won the debut prize, Het Gouden Ezelsoor) and a literary critic, publishing in Vrij Nederland. In academia, since 2003, she has been awarded with publications grants and research fellowships, including NWO internationalization and innovation grants from the Netherlands Foundation for Research.
She is the founding (series) editor of The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies, published by Amsterdam University Press since 2010, and she is an Advisory Board member and one of the founders of Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies. She is an Advisor to the Dalkey Archive Press, USA; an Advisory Board of the series Cinema and Technology at Amsterdam University Press; and an Editorial Board Member of the South-African academic journal Image & Text.
She is a prolific researcher who publishes regularly in academic journals, including Leonardo, Cinéma et Cie, Image & Text, De Arte, and Early Popular Cinema Studies. She has co-authored dialogues, books, and edited volumes with Laura Mulvey, Malte Hagener, Tom Gunning, Anna Backman Rogers, Andreas Fickers, Ian Christie, Giovanna Fossati, Dominique Chateau, and Nicholas Baer.
Her recent publications include Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory, written with Andreas Fickers and published by De Gruyter in 2022, and Technics: Media in the Digital Age, edited with Nicholas Baer and published by Amsterdam University Press in 2024.
She is currently working on a monograph on the intricate relationship between novel technologies and the aesthetics of the grotesque, Digital Distortions and the Dominance of the Grotesque Today, to be published by Amsterdam University Press in 2025. In addition, she is working with Giovanna Fossati and Erkki Huhtamo and on an edited volume that will be published by Amsterdam University Press in 2025: Devices, Dispositifs, and Moving Images.
My latest publications include:
Speaking Back to the Landscape Canon: Cultural Translation in Phumulani Ntuli’s Cloud Migration and the Liewe Land! Exhibition, available at:
https://www.tandfonline.com/
and,
Memorials, landscape and white masculinity: dialogic interventions in South African art, in Image & Text, available at: http://www.imageandtext.up.ac.