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Martin van der Linden is a doctoral researcher at Linnaeus University, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Cultural Sciences. His work is embedded within the Linnæus University Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS), its environmental cluster MEDEM (IMS Green), and the Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo).
His research explores the digital aesthetics of Shinto, focusing on multimodal and intermedial representation on platforms like YouTube. Key themes include religion's relationship to ecology, popular culture, and media theory, with interdisciplinary connections to climate crisis discourse and postcolonial studies.
The two articles he has published in 2024 analyze Shinto's philosophical dimensions in Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke and critically examine Shinto shrines' historical entanglement with Japanese imperialism. These works reflect broader trends in digital humanities approaches to religious representation.
As a PhD candidate in Global Humanities, he contributes to transdisciplinary research on religion's evolving digital epistemologies, though no formal awards, students, or funding grants are explicitly mentioned in his current profile.