Anastasia Hacopian is an assistant professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences bachelor program at the School of Liberal Arts at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. She is coordinator and instructor of the courses Multidisciplinary Project and the Interdisciplinary Capstone. Next to her work in the School of Liberal Arts, Anastasia is instructor in the program 鈥淣avigating Insecure Futures鈥� in the Honours College. Anastasia is of the faculty of Humanities working commission for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.
After studying German at the 木瓜福利影视 of California Berkeley and San Francisco State 木瓜福利影视, Anastasia completed her doctoral studies in German Literature & Culture at Humboldt 木瓜福利影视 in Berlin, using an multidisciplinary approach to research the bed motif in Franz Kafka's writing and its relationship to the modern boundary between private and the public space.
As the child of Japanese and Iranian-Armenian immigrants to the United States, Anastasia is stimulated by the access her "otherness" grants to multiple cultures and vantage points. Her current research in higher education focuses on the dynamics between positionality and interdisciplinarity. She applies creative research methodology in the classroom as well as the city, where she studies architectural humanities through the work of Joan Didion. She is a member of the
The statue "Moments Contained" by Thomas J Price stands in front of Rotterdam Central Station and serves as a representation of urban identity for many Rotterdam residents.