Pamela Pattynama

Bio

 

Professor dr. Pamela Pattynama is Indisch Huis Professor of Dutch East-Indies Literature and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She teaches film studies and literary studies in the departments of Media and Culture, Dutch Modern Literature and Literary Studies. She has published widely on (post)colonial discourse and the representation of gender and mixed race in Dutch (post-)colonial films and literature. Currently, she is working on a book on postcolonial cultural memory in literature, film and life narratives.