Dr M.H. Roza (Mathilde)

In her research and teaching, Mathilde Roza centralizes issues of cultural identity and cultural contact in political-historical contexts. She is especially interested in the impact of cross-cultural, often transatlantic, cultural contact on the production of cultural identity and on cultural (self-)expression. One of her fields of expertise is North American Indigenous Studies. Next to work on Indigenous literature and visual art, she has conducted several projects related to Indigenous soldiers in the liberation of the Netherlands during WWII, including a project on First Nations and Métis soldiers buried in Canadian war graves in the Netherlands. As part of these projects, she curated the exhibition "Albert & Theo: A Social Friendship" in 2022, which was followed by the exhibition "Indigenous Liberators" on Native American, First Nations and Métis soldiers in the Netherlands during WWII. A very different field of expertise is American literary modernism, especially the work of the avant-garde author Robert M. Coates (1897-1973). Generally, the ways in which humanity expresses itself through culture are her prime fascination.