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Lieks Hettinga is an Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at Utrecht University's Department of Media and Culture Studies. Their work bridges transgender studies, disability studies, and visual culture, focusing on non-normative embodiment and intersectional critiques of systems like neoliberalism.
- Education: BA in Liberal Arts (Maastricht University, 2011), RMA in Cultural Analysis (University of Amsterdam, 2015), PhD in Gender Studies (Central European University/Utrecht University, 2021).
- Affiliations: Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Utrecht University), GRACE Marie Curie Fellowship (2016-2019), Fulbright Visiting Scholar (New York University, 2020).
Research explores trans-crip aesthetics, visual politics of marginalized bodies, and how race/disability intersect with transgender identity frameworks. Current project: monograph Appearing Differently: Trans-Crip Aesthetics of Refusal based on their dissertation.
Key publications include 2025 work on trans-crip materialism in healthcare, 2023 analysis of transgender art practices, and 2020 theorization of trans-disabled epistemologies. Their scholarship often employs critical theory and intersectional methodologies.
- Scientific Awards:
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (GRACE program, EU Horizon 2020)
- Fulbright Visiting Scholar (NYU Media, Culture & Communication, 2020)
Teaching includes courses on Gender, Art and Activism, Intersectionality, and Politics of Representation. Their work challenges normative understandings of embodiment through interdisciplinary frameworks.
