Mathilde Roza

Background

About Mathilde Roza

Mathilde Roza obtained her PhD in American literature from Radboud University in 2005. In her courses on North American Literature she centralizes issues of cultural diversity, cultural contact, and the social and political dimension of literary work. She also teaches courses in the field of North American Indigenous Studies. From 2009 to 2014, Mathilde Roza was Program Director and developed the BA and MA curriculum in American Studies. Her research lies in two fields: 1) American and transatlantic modernism and 2) indigenous studies. In the first, her critical and biographical research on the American avant garde writer Robert Myron Coates plays a central role. Following her critical biography, there has been an upsurge of interest in his work; three Coates novels are currently in the process of being republished. In Indigenous Studies her research is currently centered on indigenous American soldiers in the Netherlands during World War II, especially Operation Market Garden.