M茅lissa (Lili) A茂nseba is s a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Culture Studies and part of ERC-funded project RESPIRE, studying intersectional power dynamics and socio-environmental in/justice through planetary breathing and suffocation. This research is supervised by Prof. dr. Kathrin Thiele and dr. Magdalena G贸rska.
Lili holds an MSc in Cultural Anthropology from Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, where her thesis explored agency and resistance in climate activism. Alongside this, she pursued an interdisciplinary honours programme with the 木瓜福利影视 of Hong Kong, which deepened her commitment to transdisciplinary and ecological thinking. She also holds a Msc in Applied Linguistics and a BA in Chinese studies.
Her love for academia is fueled by a passion for intersectional social justice, climate awareness, and creative, transdisciplinary research. Her field experiences, ranging from transit camps to rural cooperatives in various countries, inform her commitment to decolonial perspectives and feminist ethics of care. She is drawn to slow, attentive research and collaborative knowledge-making. Her work thrives on conversations across disciplines, borders, and species, cultivating wonder in the everyday.