Nanna Verhoeff

Prof. Dr. 

Nanna Verhoeff is Professor of Screen Cultures & Society at the Department of Media and Culture Studies of Utrecht University. She teaches in the MA Arts & Society and the Research MA Media, Art, and Performance Studies. She specializes in the analysis of screen technologies and practices, with a key interest in contemporary transformations in screen and interface culture. She has published on (early) cinema, mobile screens, and location-based media, interactive screen-based installations, urban media art, and media architecture. Her current research focuses on the development of concepts and methods for the analysis of performative technologies, situated arts and media, and urban interfaces.

Together, Iris van der Tuin and Nanna Verhoeff initiated the Creative Humanities Academy of the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University: an infrastructure for collaboration between academic scholars and creative professionals, post-academic teaching, and consultancy on humanities theories, methodologies, and pedagogies. See: https://www.uu.nl/en/education/creative-humanities-academy. Their co-authored book Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities will be published by Rowman & Littlefield International in the fall of 2021.