About me
I am Inge, a researcher and teacher in literary and media studies. I work as an Associate Professor of Culture Studies at Tilburg University’s School of Humanities & Digital Sciences. I was a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at University of California Santa Barbara’s English Department and the Norwegian Reading Center of the University of Stavanger, and a Junior Core Fellow (2018-’19) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest.
I hold a PhD in Comparative Literature from Utrecht University (2015), where I also completed postdoctoral research on creativity in education. I am a board member of Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA). Last but not least, I teach courses on Attention Economies, Media Aesthetics, Digital Data & Techniques, and Visual Culture & the Body, and I am coordinator of Tilburg University’s university-wide Honors Program Trust in the Information Age.
You can find my CV here.
The latest
Transformations of Attention. Transcriptions Center, UCSB, March 4
March 1, 2022
This event brings together experts from diverse fields to reflect on the interrelations between attention economies and the transformation of human capacities for, and modes of, attention. We will think through the implications of attention economies for the manners in which we attend to others, to media, and to the world around us. How do
Course Attention: Economies, Media, Affect
September 1, 2021
From Sept 27 – Oct 1 I will be teaching this intensive, one-week core course for NICA (Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis) for research MA and PhD students. In this course, we explore the meaning of present-day attention economies and their psychological, sociocultural, political, aesthetic, and ethical implications. To this end, we examine theories of
Online Symposium The Human in Digital Humanities, June 23 & 24
April 1, 2021
Proud to announce the great line up of this online event I am co-organizing on behalf of Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (sponsored by NICA and OSL). How do we envision the relation between the digital and the humanities? In what terms do we think about the human as we move toward a
Interview with virtual girlfriend Jasmine (Wokies ASMR)
January 22, 2021
As part of my ongoing investigations into different media objects and how they manipulate and modulate our attention in the attention economy, I stumbled upon the genre of ASMR girlfriend roleplay videos and became fascinated with them. In these videos, uploaded on YouTube by ASMR artists, the performer plays the role of the viewer’s girlfriend
Congres De Nieuwe Lezer in het Digitale Tijdperk
November 19, 2020
Op 10 December vindt het wetenschappelijk congres De Nieuwe Lezer in het Digitale Tijdperk van Stichting Lezen plaats. Online natuurlijk. Hoe ziet lezen eruit in het tijdperk van digitale media? Aan mij de eer een keynote te mogen geven over het lezen van literaire teksten in een aandachtseconomie. Hieronder mijn abstract. Technologische ontwikkelingen in ons