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 cdirector of open-access publishing platform 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, forthcoming 2020) 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 more recent 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:
The Miracle of Saint Mina – Gis Miinan Nokkor
paq’batlh: The Klingon Epic
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:
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
The Jews