E.H. Langeveld (Eeva) MA

Eeva Langeveld works on memory, postcolonialism, and comics. Her PhD project, titled "Imperial Pasts in Contemporary Comics: Interrogating German and Dutch Colonialism through Word and Image", investigates how comics challenge and confront normative ways of remembering and forgetting colonialism in the Netherlands and Germany, as well as propose new forms of memory.

Comparing the Netherlands and Germany allows for a study of transnational parallels and national specificities in these two countries. These have significantly different colonial pasts but overlapping cultural memories of it today. The project’s aim is to contribute to postcolonial debates by paying attention to new and productive graphic interventions in the cultural archive.

Eeva has a BA degree from Amsterdam University College and an MA National and Transnational Studies and an MA Social Anthropology from the University of Münster (Germany). During her studies, she spent a semester in Edinburgh and one in Helsinki. Her other research interests include children’s literature, audio-visual ethnography, and life writing.