Academic Writing
Afterword to a reprint of Kopzorg (1988) by Edgar Cairo. Uitgeverij Cossee, 2024. Find it HERE.
Peer-reviewed article ‘Of Backyards and Hinterlands: ‘Cairojan’ and Dutch Caribbean literature’ in Dutch Crossings, December 2022. Open Access.
Research blogpost A mysterious ivory item,’ National Trust for Scotland. July 2022. Find it HERE.
Research blogpost Plague, fire, floods and a king. National Trust for Scotland. June 2022. Find it HERE.
Choose Your Own Protest by Thalia Ostendorf in Antonis Pittas’ jaune, geel, gelb, yellow. Monochrome. With text contributions by Maria Barnas, I.K. Bonset, Laurie Cluitmans, Johan F. Hartle, Dirk van den Heuvel, Bram Ieven, Bruno Latour, Bart Rutten, Doris Wintgens. The book is published in conjunction with the exhibition jaune, geel, gelb, yellow. Act on modernism with Antonis Pittas and Theo van Doesburg at Centraal Museum, Utrecht. Buy the book HERE. [English]
InclusivEU: Encouraging diversity in EU Institutions, EUROPAEUM policy recommendations (cohort 2020-2021), by Ashlee Beazley, Eduardo García Cancela, Riccardo Nanni, Thalia Ostendorf, Elena Porter, Lewin Schmitt, Inga Steinberg, Mariana Vega Martinho and Sue Anne Teo. Read the policy brief and the policy proposal. [English]
Surinamese Voices in the Dutch Museum of Literature on the Scottish BAME Writers Network, November 2021. Read the blog HERE. [English]
Literary Courage as a Roadmap to Activism: A Conversation with Kathy Kelly by Thalia Ostendorf. Interview with American pacifist and peace activist Kathy Kelly in FRAME 34.1 Literature and Activism, June 2021. Buy the issue HERE. [English]
Watch me talk about my research for the Literatuurmuseum, where I looked into the archives of Surinamese authors Anton de Kom, Bea Vianen, Rudie van Lier and Albert Helman. Watch the video HERE [Dutch]
Over Lucebert XII by Thalia Ostendorf in response to Andrew Ricca, Tommy van Avermaete, Jessie de Geus, Tessa de Zeeuw, Frans-Willem Korsten, Esther Edelmann, Marijke Gravemaker, Nike van Helden, Hubertus Mayr, Lieke Smits, and Bram Ieven, who preceded her in this chain letter about Lucebert. [Dutch]. Originally published for SKUT, August, 2018. READ HERE. [Dutch]
Also available for PURCHASE in the print publication DOOR DE SCHADUWEN BESTORMD.
Enjoyment After the End of Times: The Role of “Enjoyment” in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale in Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities, September, 2017. READ HERE. [English]