Jaap Kooijman

 
Jaap Kooijman (Amsterdam 1967) is Associate Professor of Media and Culture at the Media Studies department of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. His essays on American politics, pop culture, and art have been published in The Presidential Studies Quarterly, The Velvet Light Trap, Post Script, The European Journal of Cultural Studies, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and the Journal of American Culture. His latest book is Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture (Amsterdam University Press, 2008), for which he won the 2009 ASCA Book Award. Kooijman is co-founder and co-coordinator of the joint ASCA-ICG research group The 9/11 Effect: Art and Cultural Politics in Post-9/11 Europe, and, together with Murat Aydemir, of the What’s Queer Here? research project. He is also the ASCA coordinator of the European Summer School in Cultural Studies (ESSCS). In 2003, Kooijman was a visiting professor at the Cinema Studies department of New York University, and in 2009 at the Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature department of the University of Minnesota.

 

Employment

• Associate Professor Media and Culture, Universiteit van Amsterdam (2007-present)
• Assistant Professor Media and Culture, Universiteit van Amsterdam (2000-2007)
• Lecturer Film and Television Studies (freelance), Universiteit van Amsterdam (2000)
• Lecturer American Studies (freelance), Universiteit Utrecht (1999)
• Project Coordinator, Star UvA BV, Universiteit van Amsterdam (1999)
• Lecturer American Studies (freelance), Universiteit van Amsterdam (1996-2000)
• Research Assistant, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands (1994-1998)

Visiting professorships

• Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America, Spring 2009
• Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, United States of America, Fall 2003

Education

• PhD American Studies (cum laude), Universiteit van Amsterdam, 8 June 1999
  Dissertation: … And the Pursuit of National Health: The Incremental Strategy Toward National Health Insurance in the United States of America
  Supervisor: Prof.dr. Rob Kroes, Universiteit van Amsterdam
• MA English Language and Literature, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 31 August 1994
  Thesis: “Bret Easton Ellis, Literary Trash Man: The Novels Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho as Literary and Mass-Cultural Products”
• MA American Studies (cum laude), Universiteit van Amsterdam, 23 May 1994
  Thesis: “Condition Critical: The Exclusion of a National Health Insurance Program from the Social Security Act of 1935″
• Minor Humanities / American Studies (exchange program), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America, 1991-1992

Management and coordination

• Initiator and co-coordinator (with dr. Murat Aydemir) research group What’s Queer Here?, 2008-present
• Initiator and co-coordinator (with dr. Marieke de Goede) interdisciplinary research group The 9/11 Effect: Art and Cultural Politics in Post-9/11 Europe, 2007-present
• ASCA coordinator and representative European Summer School in Cultural Studies, a collaborative venture between the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, Literature, and the Arts, the London Consortium, the Giessener Graduiertenkolleg, and the Norwegian Doctoral School in Cultural Studies of Oslo University, 2007-present
• Program director and coordinator of the newly established BA and MA Television Studies program, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2004-2006
• Member of the Employees Council of the Faculty of Humanities, including chair of the committee Research and Education, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2003-2006
• Board member of the Benelux chapter of the International Association of the Study of Popular Music, 2002-2006
• Audit committee (with dr. Tity de Vries) of the Netherlands American Studies Association, 2001-present

Advisory and Editorial Boards

• Associate editor, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2009-present
• Member editorial committee Folia, independent weekly of the University of Amsterdam, 2009-present
• Member advisory board of the Academie voor Popcultuur (Leeuwarden), Hansehogeschool Groningen, 2009-present
• Member editorial advisory committee Film and Media, Amsterdam University Press, 2008-present

Other relevant experience

• Jury member of the Theodore Roosevelt American History Award, Theodore Roosevelt Association and the Roosevelt Study Center, 2007-present
• Fellow Salzburg Seminar in American Studies: The Politics of American Popular Culture: Here, There, and Everywhere and American Culture in the U.S. and Abroad, Salzburg, Austria, respectively October 2002 and September 2005
• Fellow Fulbright American Studies Summer Institute: American Regional Diversity, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Summer 2001
• Instructor American Studies program, IMC Weekend School, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1999-2003