Sandra Ponzanesi appointed as Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies
On 1 February, Prof. Sandra Ponzanesi has been appointed as Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies, with a special focus on research. She will hold this chair for the coming five years.
Ponzanesi works at the Gender Graduate Programme of the Department of Media and Culture Studies. Since August 2013, she is also Head of Humanities at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 College (UCU).
She has led several international research projects, among which the High Potential project, (2007-2012); the 7th European Framework (2010-2013) and the NWO (2011-2014). Currently, she is the director of the , which she also founded and is supported by the focus area .
As a visiting professor, Ponzanesi spent time at UCLA and the 木瓜福利影视 of California, Riverside. Recently she was a Gemma fellow at Rutgers 木瓜福利影视.
Her research activities combine gender analysis with postcolonial critique from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, ranging from comparative literature to (new) media studies and European migration studies.
She has published widely in the field of postcolonial studies at the crossroads of other disciplines. Her most recent publications are (Palgrave, 2014) and (Routledge, 2014). She has co-edited several volumes among which (2012) and (Routledge, 2012) and guest edited several special issues, the most recent being (2014).