Marrigje Paijmans Marrigje Paijmans
Marrigje Paijmans is a literary scholar at the University of Amsterdam focusing on the intersection of colonialism and ecology through the lens of water.
She is currently Assistant Professor in Dutch Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She was awarded the KNAW Early Career Award 2022 for investigating early modern literature from a critical perspective, thus recovering marginalised voices and balancing our understanding of the past. She has published widely on neerlandophone literature regarding, for example, Spinozist settlerism in North America, blackface in seventeenth-century theatre, and Afro-Surinamese resistance in plantation poetry.
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