For my PhD project ‘Reimagining Ways of Living with Water in the Neerlandophone Space,' I explore alternative relationalities with water in places where people are or have been in contact with Dutch language and culture. Taking an ecocritical, decolonial and neo-materialist approach, I engage with contemporary art, performance, literature and oral history in the Netherlands, Brazil and Indonesia. This environmental humanities project aims to provide counter-stories to the age-old Dutch narrative of a 'battle against the water' in order to welcome water discursively and materially. This research ultimately seeks to imagine a more 'amphibious' way of living, where relations with water as material realities and metaphorical concepts can inspire new ways of learning to live with sea-level rise, fluvial and coastal flooding, drought, and climate crises. 

I am particularly interested in thinking with and through water in the Environmental Humanities and in exploring experimental aesthetic interventions. I am very open to collaborations in interdisciplinary projects on topics as broad as marine ecologies, water management, pollution, decoloniality, climate change and rights of nature. 

I hold a research master's degree in Social & Political Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen, and a bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences (cum laude) at Amsterdam University College. During my MA degree, I did a research internship at the Posthumanism Research Institute at Brock University (Ontario, Canada), where I conducted research on contemporary eco-feminist art engaging with rivers, dam infrastructures and Indigenous knowledge in Canada and Colombia.