PhD Candidate
TSHD: Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences
TSHD: Department of Culture Studies
I have a background in Literary Studies, Dutch Language and Culture, and Cultural Analysis, which I studied at the University of Amsterdam. My NWO-funded research project focuses on gender and emotions in children’s literature and is titled “From Silent Containment to Empowering Rage: Gendered Constructions of Anger Expression and Diversion in Contemporary Picturebooks.” Drawing on cognitive linguistics and cognitive literary theory, I explore which social-emotional values regarding expressed and diverted anger contemporary picturebooks for young children seem to disseminate by applying multimodal analysis.