Dr Arnoud Arps
IAS Residential Fellow
University of Amsterdam
Arnoud Arps is an Assistant Professor of Extended Cinema, Film Heritage and Memory at the University of Amsterdam’s Media Studies department and Academic Staff Member at the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture.
Prior to this he was a Niels Stensen Postdoctoral Fellow in Postcolonial and Memory Studies consecutively affiliated with the University of Oxford hosted by Elleke Boehmer and the University of California, Los Angeles hosted by Michael Rothberg. He has held visiting appointments at The University of Melbourne, the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), and the University of California, Berkeley. He is an editorial board member of the scholarly journals Popular Culture Review and Indische Letteren as well as a member of the International Advisory Board of Southeast Asian Media Studies Journal. His work investigates how the colonial era is transculturally, transnationally, and cross-medially remembered in the Netherlands and Indonesia with a special interest in cinema, literature, and popular culture. His work on cultural memory and media has, amongst others, been published in the journals Memory Studies, M/C Journal, and Journal of Migration History.
During their IAS Fellowship, Dr Arps is collaborating with Professor Emily Keightley from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.