Master’s Degrees in English Lit. (cum laude) and Film Studies at the Univ. of Amsterdam; writes movie reviews for the website DVDBreakdown.com; returned to his alma mater in 2003 as a teacher in the Media Studies dept.; his Ph.D. project deals with the politics and rhetoric of superhero figures in (graphic) lit. and film from a post-9/11 perspective; assistant professor of media and cultural studies at Utrecht University