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I am an Assistant Professor of Global Media Histories in the Department of Media Studies (University of Amsterdam) and the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies. My work analyzes the globalization of settler colonial imaginations by asking how genre - affectively, aesthetically, and historically - mediates the function of and resistance to settler colonialism. My research and teaching are anchored in decolonial and queer methodologies, and broadly asks how media shapes the tricky ways in which people collectively, intimately, and differentially navigate and inherit historically interlocking forms of power/oppression. Other areas of interest include speculative history; cultural critique and analysis; ambivalence; pop cultural mediations of friendship, conflict, normativity, and difference; indigenous studies; black feminist theory; queer of color studies; multilingual and transnational media; haunting; cultural geography and rural studies. I obtained my PhD - a study which, through the work of Sylvia Wynter, Raymond Williams, and Laurent Berlant, investigates genres of spatialization and their affective and political function in popular cultural imaginations of North American rural geographies – at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) as part of the ERC-funded project ‘Imagining the Rural in a Globalizing World’. I hold a BA in Chinese Studies from Leiden University, a MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a rMA in Gender & Ethnicity Studies from Utrecht University.You can find my writing in PhiloSOPHIA, Collateral Journal for Cross-Cultural Close Reading, Junctions, Armada: Tijdschrift voor Wereldliteratuur, and my latest publication "Ambivalence and Resistance in Contemporary Imaginations of US Capitalist Hinterlands" (Open Access) appears in the edited volume Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment, and Care (Palgrave 2023). Currently I am co-editing a forthcoming volume with Esther Peeren on cultural imaginations of the rural (Brill 2025), and am working on a monograph (based on my dissertation) titled Affective Inheritances: Rurality, Genre, and Settler Colonial Legacies in Contemporary US Pop Culture. I am also an active member of the Terra Critica: Interdisciplinary Network for Critical Humanities, where you can find some short writings and reflections.
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Assistant ProfessorUniversity Of AmsterdamAmsterdam, Nh, Nl -
Assistant ProfessorUniversity Of Amsterdam Sep 2024 - PresentAmsterdam, North Holland, NetherlandsDepartment of Media Studies.
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LecturerUniversity Of Amsterdam Jan 2020 - Sep 2024Amsterdam, North Holland, NetherlandsTeaching BA and MA-level courses in Literary and Cultural Analysis; Gender, Race, Sexuality Studies; supervising BA thesis projects.
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Phd CandidateUniversity Of Amsterdam Jan 2019 - Jan 2023Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsIn 'Genres of Rurality: Unsettling Affect in Popular Imaginations of the Globalized US Rural' (2023), I ask what kind of understandings of the 21st-century globalized US rural emerge through popular reiterations of established rural genres like the pastoral idyll, the Western, and the anti-idyll. My study engages these understandings as determinately affective in their function and, as such, I provide an analysis of what kind of divergent feelings dominant genres of US rurality manage, and investigate how such feelings inform political mobilizations of the US rural in a contemporary moment that is marked by a supposed increasing rural-urban divide. This interrogation of imagined US ruralities is not merely important to the national context, as particular desires and anxieties managed by dominant imaginations of the US travel globally. By turning my attention to critical reframings of US rural and non-urbanized space, I ask what happens when, for example, queer, Black, and/or Indigenous subjects, experiences, and histories interrupt dominant historical and contemporary imaginations of US rurality. At the same time, while critical and subversive rearticulations of US rurality can certainly misalign rural-urban binaries and divides, redirect normative feelings that stick to US rural geographies, and potentially inform different political futures, such texts also often fall back on some of the insidious and exclusionary promises dominant genres of rurality exude. This suggests that it will take a great deal of imaginative and affective labor to radically unhinge the popular imagination of the globalized US rural from the good-life promises it has articulated since the early days of settler colonialism and prompts my main question: what kinds of collective and ambiguous attachments, fantasies of belonging and moments of discontent, affective investments and disinvestments, and political stakes do contemporary imaginations of US rurality manage, and for whom?
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Producer / CuratorTerra Critica: Interdisciplinary Network For The Critical Humanities Sep 2016 - May 2019Utrecht Area, NetherlandsInvolved with the curation and production of ReadingRoom. ReadingRoom is a local Terra Critica practice in Utrecht with the collaboration of Casco Art Institute. It is open to anyone interested in careful close readings. ReadingRoom is meant to create an open and inclusive space for substantial and meaningful conversations in the humanities, the arts and beyond. ReadingRoom holds one thematic series per year, with 4-6 meetings per series. Each time we base our conversations on a few key texts (including films & artworks) from a wide range of disciplines. Thematic series include: speculation & fabulation (critique in the SF mode); relationality - envisioning new wor(l)dings; Who Cares? - Politics and Poetics in the Affirmative; un/learning: the p/re/distribution of knowledge.About Terra Critica:Terra Critica is an international and interdisciplinary research network in the critical humanities. It provides different platforms that bring together scholars specializing in critical and cultural theory, as well as practitioners in education, activism and the arts. The network aims to reexamine critical theory and practice under the conditions of the 21st century – in light of our terran existences that are globally entangled across flows of capital, people, and ideas. Given the persistent need to decolonize knowledge and institutional practice, as well as the fact that we are living in interdependent ecological and economic systems with growing inequalities, our critical vocabularies and practices also have to be refined and revised.
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Research AssistantUtrecht University Sep 2016 - Jul 2017UtrechtResearch Assistant in the Graduate Gender Studies Program -
Project Officer - Policy & DevelopmentFonds Podiumkunsten Jul 2014 - Dec 2015The Hague Area, NetherlandsThe Performing Arts Fund NL is one of the biggest culture funds for music, musical theatre, dance and theatre in the Netherlands and provides support on behalf of the government to every form of the professional performing arts. My main fields of work include assisting the director and head of policy & development in researching what socio-economic changes are impacting the national performing arts industry and how to adjust the organisation's policy to those changes. Research includes topics like diversity issues (changing audience demographics), (increasing) collaborations between producing and presenting parties in a regional/national/international context (supply and demand issues), (new) financial and organisational models used by performing arts organisations, and interpretations and measurements of quality. As a project leader on 'Fonds On Tour' I organise smaller expert meetings and national meetings on these topics and co-write, edit and produce on- and offline publications. -
Producer - Project ManagerPresent Plus Nov 2012 - Jun 2014Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Tjalling Valdés Olmos, Phd Education Details
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Cultural Studies/Critical Theory And Analysis
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Gender And Ethnicity Studies
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History Of International Relations -
China Studies
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