Dr Arnoud Arps

Arnoud Arps is a Niels Stensen Postdoctoral Fellow in Postcolonial and Memory Studies at the University of Oxford and an incoming Niels Stensen Postdoctoral Fellow in Postcolonial and Memory Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a staff member at the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam as a Lecturer in Film Studies.Since early 2019 he has been an editor of the scholarly journal Indische Letteren. 

His postdoctoral research project is titled From Memory Chasms to Memory Junctions: Resistance and Reconciliation in Indonesian and Dutch Cross-Media. It investigates how the end of the Dutch colonial era is transculturally, transnationally, and cross-medially remembered in the Netherlands and Indonesia, with a particular focus on contemporary cinematic and literary case studies. 

His work on cultural memory and media has, amongst others, been published in the journals M/C Journal (2022), Journal of Migration History (2022), and Southeast Asian Media Studies (2020). The Dutch Research Council (NWO) funded his recently finished PhD project on how the Indonesian War of Independence is remembered in Indonesian historical re-enactment, film, and music from the last decade.  

More information about his research can be found on his personal website: www.arnoudarps.com