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Academic Profile and Research Interests
I teach and do research on literature, film and new media at the University of Amsterdam, and I am a contributing emeritus member of Amsterdam University College where I served as Head of Studies for the Humanities from 2008-2010. My research focuses on literature, film, painting and new media, which I approach from an economic point of view. I have recently co-edited a collection of essays on comic books and graphic novels and published a number of articles on gambling, addiction, and finance in various cultural media.
I am currently co-supervising three Ph.D. theses, as well as a number of M.A. and B.A. theses. I invite students looking for a thesis supervisor at the level of Ph.D., M.A. or B.A. to contact me, and particularly students working on film, literature and new media. I am equally interested supervising theses that address the intersection of film, literature and/or new media with topics such as finance, gambling, money, play and serialization, as well as any other topic listed among my publications and conference lectures.
My current Ph.D. supervisees are:
Thijs van den Berg
A History of Our Connected Future: Communication Networks in Dystopian Science Fiction.(Preliminary)
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Erinc Salor
Sum of all Human Knowledge: Wikipedia and the Encyclopedic Urge
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Rob Allen
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Most Recent Publications
“007 Does Vegas: The Diamond Standard and the Experience Economy.” The Culturesof James Bond. Eds. Frenk, Joachim and Christian Krug, Trier: Wissenschaflicher Verlag Trier, 2011: 65-81.
“Qu’est qu’on réadapte? Ocean’s Eleven et l’esthétique de la finance”. De la page blanche aux salles obscures: Adaptation et réadaption dans le monde Anglophone. Trans. Ariane Hudelet. Ed. Hudelet, Ariane and Shannon Wells-Lassagne. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011: 49-59.
“Of Gutters and Guttersnipes: Hogarth’s Legacy”. The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature: Critical Essays on the Form. Ed. Joyce Goggin and Dan Hassler-Forest. Jefferson: McFarland, 2010: 5-25.
“From Remake to Sequel: Ocean’s Eleven and Ocean’s Twelve”. Second Takes: Approaches to the Film Sequel . Jess-Cooke, Caroline and Constantine Verevis Eds. State University of New York Press, 2010: 105-121.
“‘Nigella’s deep-frying a Snickers Bar!’: Addiction as a Social Construct in Gilmore Girls”. Screwball Television: Critical Perspectiveson Gilmore Girls. Eds. Diffrient, David Scott and David Lavery. Syracuse : Syracuse UP, 2010: 257-283.
“It Just Keeps Getting Bigger: Bond and the Political Economy of Huge” (co-author René Glas). James Bond and Casino Royale: Revisioning 007. Ed. Christoph Lindner. London : Wallflower Press, 2010.
“A Body Hermeneutic?: Corpus Simsi or Reading Like a Sim”. The Hand of the Interpreter:Essays on Meaning after Theory. Mitrano, G.F. and Eric Jarosinski Eds. Bern: Peter Lang, 2008: 205-223.
“Gaming/Gambling: Addiction and the VideogameExperience”. The Pleasures of Computer Gaming. Ed. Swalwell,Melanie and Jason Wilson. Jefferson and London: McFarland & Company, 2008: 33-52.
Recent Articles
“Playbour, Farming and Leisure.” Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization . Vol. 11, No. 4, 2011 .
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“Neuromancer and the Question of Architectural Space”. Creative Forum. Vol. 24, No. 1-2, 2011: 27-43.
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“Therapeutic Gaming and 9/11.” Cultural Productions of 9/11. Spec. issue of Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. Vol. 11: 2, 2011.
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“Fantasy and Finance: What Play Money Does in Game Worlds”. The Computer Culture Reader. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009: 125-137.
“Casinos and Sure Bets: Ocean’s Eleven and Cinematic Money”. Money andCulture. Bern: PeterLang,2008: 285-297.
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“Jane Austen Reloaded: Portraits and Adaptations”. Persuasions On-Line. 2007.
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“Corpus Simsi: Or Can a Body Tell a Story?”. Public 34, December, 2006: 110-114.
“Modernity and Mind: Addicted to Play”. Gaming Realities: A Challenge for Digital Culture. Ed. Manthos Santorineos. Athens:FOURNOS Centre for Digital Culture, 2006: 46-55.
“Architectural Space, Cyber Bodies and theLiterary Text: A Voyage through Neuromancer”. Essenses, Vol. 13: 1, 2006: 5-23.
“The Playing Card’s Progress: A Brief History”, in The Games Reader, 2006
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“Dire Straits: Paul Auster’s The Music of Chance and Economic Loss”. Critical Studies: Metaphors of Economy, 2005,Vol. 25: 125 – 134.
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“Metaphor and Madness: Stacking the Deck on Iraq”. Bad Subjects, March 2005.
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“Stacking the Deck on Iraq: Playing Cards as Generative Metaphor”. Literary Research/Recherche littéraire,2004. Vol. 21: 231-239.
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“VANIADA : Cousinage-dangereux-voisinage adage”.The Oxford Literary Review. Vol. 25, 2004: 179-198.
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Other Publications
“World of Warcraft” (review of Hoskins, Andrew and Ben O’Loughlin. War and Media: The Emergence of Diffused War, Polity Press: Cambridge, 2010). Radical Philosophy: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy, March/April, 2011, pp. 53-54.
"World of Warcraft
"Joyce Goggin herleest Huizinga", Nieuwsbrief Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen, Vol. 121, (2009), 6.
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“‘Liefde doet veel, maar geld doet alles’: over literatuur en geld”. Parmentier - Literair tijdschrijft,18-3, 2009: 29-36.
Liefde doet veel, maar geld doet alles
“Reading and Watching: Literature and Games”. Reading and Watching: What Does theWritten Word Have that Images Don’t. Amsterdam:Stichting Lezen, 2009: 79-93.
Reading and Watching: Literature and Games
“Excess and the Aesthetics of Finance”, Business Guide to Switzerland. No. 4, July/August 2007: 60-63.
Excess and the Aesthetics of Finance
Conference Report: “From the Blank Page to the Silver Screen: Re-adaptation”. Scope: An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies, June, 2007.
From the Blank Page to the Silver Screen: Re-adaptation
Articles Forthcoming
“The Dark Knight: Free-Play, Counter-Playand the Manufactured Middle”. Counter-Play. Ed. JackPost. Amsterdam: AUP, forthcoming.
“Of Gutters and Guttersnipes: Hogarth’s Legacy”. Out of the Gutter: Reading Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Ed. Joyce Goggin andDan Hassler-Forest. McFarland, forthcoming.
“My Future’s so Bright, I’m already Dead”. Ed. Thomas Bay. Tamara Journal for Critical OrganizationInquiry. Forthcoming.
“Bad Economics: Hard Cash/Soft Culture”. Cultural Studies. Special issue, Bad Economics. Ed. Mark Haywood. Under review.
“Charles Williams and the Metaphysics of Otherness”. Tarot in Culture. Ed. Emily Auger. Edwin Mellen Press, Forthcoming.
“Being Past and Passing: From Heathcliff to Oberon and Back”. Fleshing Out: Racial Passing from Text to Film.
Books Co-Edited
The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature: Critical Essays on the Form. Ed. Goggin, Joyce and Dan Hassler-Forest. Jefferson : McFarland, 2010, pp. 235.
Of Gutters and Guttersnipes
Travelling Concepts II: Meaning, Frame and Metaphor. Co-editor Michael Burke. Amsterdam: ASCA Press, March 2002, pp. 416.
Making Meaning Happen at the High End of Low Life
TravellingConcepts I: Text, Subjectivity, Hybridity. Co-editor SonjaNeef. Amsterdam: ASCA Press, March 2001, pp. 259.
Translations
“Early Cinema as a Challenge to Film History” (“Le cinéma des premiers temps: Un défit pour l’histoire du film?”) André Gaudreaultand Tom Gunning, in The Cinema ofAttractionsReloaded, Wanda Strauven, ed. University of Amsterdam Press, 2006: 365-381.
“Du vieux vin dans de nouvelles outres: remarques surle‘New Historicism.’” (“Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen: Bermerkungen zum ‘New Historicism’”) Hans-Robert Jauss, in Texte, Vol. 12, 1992: 49-65.