Since September 2021, I have been a lecturer in modern European literature at the Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, where I teach widely on European culture, focusing specifically on queer studies, postcolonial studies, and literary multilingualism. Per the academic year 2022-23, I am also co-coordinator of our BA programme, with specific responsibilities for the Dutch track and the first year.

The main portion of my research focuses on the social history of HIV/AIDS in the Netherlands, the emergence (or lack thereof) of a memory culture around the epidemic, and the construction of its cultural archive. With Bram Mellink (modern and contemporary history, UvA), I have obtained an NWO Open Competition M grant to further this research. I am also the co-founder of the European HIV/AIDS Research Network, which met for the first time in Amsterdam in June 2025.

Before coming to Amsterdam, I was a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature with University of Groningen / Campus Fryslân, the Netherlands. My dissertation centred on six writers from Finland to the United Kingdom, and from the Netherlands to Spain. I combined perspectives from world literature, minority studies, and European studies to elaborate a “worldly reading” strategy that is attuned to how these writers negotiate pressures of the national in times of globalization. A revised version of my dissertaton is set to appear with Bloomsbury's series "New Horizons in Contemporary Writing".

In addition to my activities at the University of Amsterdam, I serve on the editorial board of Armada. Tijdschrift voor wereldliteratuur. I am a member of the advisory board of the Nederlands Letterenfonds, and chair the annual meetings handing out subsidies to Dutch writers for new projects. I am also secretary of the Stichting House of Hiv.

I hold a BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences from University College Utrecht (2012, cum laude), an MA in Comparative Literature from University College London (2013, cum laude), and an MA in Euroculture from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the University of Groningen (2016, cum laude).