Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei received a PhD in Media & Communications from the European Graduate School and another PhD in Modern Thought from the University of Aberdeen. He is a philologist and the co-director of punctum books. He is a specialist in Old Nubian and co-editor-in-chief of Dotawo. Monographs include A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian (Peeters, 2021) and Cross-Examinations (MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015). His three-volume work Lapidari (punctum, 2015) provides the first complete overview of socialist monumentality in Albania. As a translator, Van Gerven Oei works mostly with anonymous Makuritan Nubian scribes and contemporary authors such as Jean Daive, Hervé Guibert, Werner Hamacher, Dick Raaijmakers, Avital Ronell, and Nachoem M. Wijnberg. His scholarly work has appeared in Afterall, Glossa, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, postmedieval, and Theory & Event, among other venues.
Edited:
- paq’batlh: The Klingon Epic (2nd edn.)
- Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 7
- Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures
- The Miracle of Saint Mina – Gis Miinan Nokkor
- Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura
- ’Pataphilology: An Irreader
- Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida
- The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri
- Lapidari, Volume 1: Texts
- Lapidari, Volume 2: Images, Part I
- Lapidari, Volume 3: Images, Part II
- continent. Year 1
- Workers Leaving the Studio. Looking Away from Socialist Realism.
- Pedagogies of Disaster
- Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 1
- Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 2
Contributor:
- Mineral Policies
- Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures
- Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 6
- Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 5
- Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 4
- Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida
- Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 2
- Lapidari, Volume 1: Texts
- continent. Year 1
- Workers Leaving the Studio. Looking Away from Socialist Realism.
- Pedagogies of Disaster
- Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 1