Editorial Team

Editors-in-Chief

Sasha Staggs
is French-American from Los Angeles, California, and is a graduate from the University of Amsterdam where she earned her MA in English Literature & Culture. Her research looked at Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (2019). She previously obtained her BA in Linguistics, with a minor in East Asian Language & Literature, from McGill University in Montreal. Throughout her education she had pursued subjects like historical and sociolinguistics, gender studies, queer theory, decolonial scholarship, and migration studies. Her literary interests include speculative, dystopian, historical, and literary fiction, plays, and (web)comics, as well as reading and writing poetry. She is passionate about editing and helping authors publish the best work they possibly can.

Anouck Masse
is a French-Dutch RMA student Comparative Literary Studies at Utrecht University where she also completed her BA in Literary Studies. She is interested in narratives of counterinsurgency in human and non-human conflicts as well as in the use of Narrative Foresight Techniques and dystopian formal devices when describing these possible future conflicts by military actors. Points of interests in these narratives include form, temporality and materiality, which she explores through feminist, ecocritical, and Marxist literary theory. 

Editorial Staff

Tanya Ardila
was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and currently resides in Amsterdam. She earned a BA in Literary Studies and an MA in Comparative Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. Her MA thesis, entitled “Hunting Lives: How Taxidermy Incites Decoloniality,” argued that taxidermy, which shares its chronology with colonialism, can be reread as a site for decolonial critique, thereby destabilizing binaries such as human/nonhuman, subject/object, and life/death. Through a comparative analysis of taxidermized projects, her work demonstrated how their ambiguity, materiality, and spectatorship construct extradiegetic spaces that can be thought of subjunctively and within a ‘poetics of relation.’ Her current research interests are critical animal studies and ‘bad’ cinema. Her personal interests include JRPGs, baking, and spending time with her cat and dog.

Alex Krokou
is a Literary Studies research master’s student at the University of Amsterdam, and holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is interested in anti-coloniality and dialogues between the post- and de-colonial. Her current research centres on feminist Caribbean thinking and Afra-Caribbean diasporic identity, particularly considering how the Afra-descendant wish for the return to Africa converses with the rhizomatic and archipelagic character of Caribbean identity. 

Xinyi Fern Li
recently graduated from a research master’s in Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Born and raised in Hangzhou, China, Xinyi came to the Netherlands with an intuitive passion for literature which has become more intertwined with theory. She tends to weave autobiographical threads into research, testing out the (in)efficacy of feminism and queer theory, postcolonial and migration studies, and writing aesthetics. Besides academic and editing work, you may find her walking in a park, knitting, or taking photos of trees.

Irene Pagano
is a Research Master’s student in the Literary Studies programme at the University of Amsterdam. Their research interests include body horror, queer theory, form, care ethics and disability studies. They have presented their work at several conferences and festivals, including ACLA 2025’s Annual Meeting, Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, and Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference. Part of their thesis work, analysing depictions of caregiving within horror narratives through Eugenie Brinkema’s theory of radical formalism, was featured in FRAME’s medical humanities issue Paper Pills.

Iren Serbetcioglu
is a Turkish Comparative Literary Studies RMA student at Utrecht University. She completed her Bachelor’s degree at University College Utrecht with a focus in Literature and Classics. In her BA thesis, she challenged the 20th century focus on the literary study of absurdism. She mainly focuses on modern and contemporary literature, and is interested in the political use of literature, especially in national identity creation. She is interested in non-fiction and journalistic writing as well and regularly writes for music, art and news publications.

Eirini Arampatzi
is a Greek RMA student of Comparative Literary Studies at Utrecht University, where she also completed her first MA in Literature Today and a BA in English Language and Culture. Her research interests center on identity and memory, with a particular focus on postcolonial studies. More recently, she has begun exploring ecoviolence and its intersections with colonialism. In her free time, she enjoys reading, with a particular appreciation for distinctive writing styles.

Mace Bielderman
is an RMA student of Comparative Literary Studies at Utrecht University and holds a BA in English Language and Culture from Radboud University. They are interested in contemporary Gothic and speculative fiction, particularly when these narratives include transgender or genderqueer experiences. Their research explores these literary works through frameworks of transgender studies, queer theory, ecocriticism, posthumanism, and affect theory.

Trisha Bhaya
is from Singapore, and is a Research Master’s student in Comparative Literary Studies at Utrecht University, where she is currently completing her thesis. Her current research focuses on critical animal studies and zoopoetics in the short fiction of Clarice Lispector, and the way in which figurations of the animal, enable Lispector to work through, with, and against the binaries of gender, human/animal, and the sacred/profane, for example, with particular attendance to encounter, form and materiality. She loves to read all kinds of literature, and is also interested in translingual poetics, creative-critical research methods, autotheory, decolonial/anticolonial studies, and Marxist critical theory.

Anna Dijkstra
graduated with an MPhil in English Studies from the University of Cambridge and has a dual background in philosophy and literature from the University of Amsterdam. She mainly works on the intersection between the two, working on the epistemological entanglements of modernist literature (both anglophone and more broadly), with a deeply-held love for Wittgenstein. She has a wide range of secondary interests, from animal studies and philosophy of science to transgressive and weird literature and horror. Previous writing on topics including Musil, Wittgenstein, and Gertrude Stein has been published in journals including JCLA, Echinox Journal, and The Modernist Review.

Victor Keyser
is a research master’s student of Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where he also  completed a BA in Literary and Cultural Analysis. His BA thesis titled “Cryptic Sympathy and the Non-Work of Melancholia,” which develops a concept of telepathic haunting, was published in the Fall 2025 issue of the Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal of Berkeley University.  He is currently expanding this research on cryptic secrets and weird forms of consciousness-raising into a broader study of Weird Fiction, Gothic Marxism, and theories of literary form. Work emerging from this project will be presented at the Listening to Possible Worlds Conference at Leiden University (October 2026) and published in Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis (2027).

Ollie Köhn-Haskins
is an RMA student of Comparative Literary Studies at Utrecht University and a student assistant of UU’s Pathways to Sustainability. They hold a BA, with a focus in Literature, Philosophy, and Media Studies, from University College Utrecht. A chapter of their BA thesis, which focuses on the power of water imagery in contemporary Palestinian-American poetry in mediating postgenerational and transnational memories of occupation, genocide, and exile while challenging colonial worldviews and emphasizing Palestinian agency, resilience, and hope, can be read in FRAME’s issue Controlling the Narrative. Their current work focuses on artistic research as well as queer, decolonial, ecocritical poetics, and how it foregrounds the materiality of the world we share. Ollie has lived in New York, Miami, and Berlin, and now lives in Den Haag with their partner and their cat Ozymandias.

Lotte Suardi
is a German-Indonesian graduate of the research MA Comparative Literary Studies at Utrecht University, where she also obtained her BA in Literary Studies. Her research interests include postcolonial and decolonial theory, speculative fiction, and migration and diaspora. The growing popularity of the “anticolonial fantasy” and “Asian fantasy” subgenres in the West led her to her MA thesis, which explored how Anglophone fantasy novels inspired by East Asian histories interrogate modernity as a universal colonial epistemology that subjugates local people and their knowledges. Having also traced a genealogy of anti-Asian tropes and their subversions in speculative fiction, Lotte is further interested in the way popular fiction texts, such as those of science fiction and romance, play around with the conventions of their genre