Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei is a philologist and publisher at independent open access humanities publisher punctum books, where he also manages Dotawo, the imprint of the Union for Nubian Studies. At home he directs project bureau for the arts and humanities The Department of Eagles, organizing cultural projects in Tirana, Albania. His recent publications include Cross-Examinations (Gent: MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015), and the edited volumes Going Postcard: The Letters(s) of Jacques Derrida (Earth: punctum books, expected 2017), Allegory of the Cave Painting (Milan: Mousse, 2015; co-edited with Mihnea Mircan), and Lapidari, 3 vols. (Brooklyn: punctum books, 2015). As a translator, Van Gerven Oei works with mostly anonymous Medieval Nubian scribes and more recent authors such as Jean Daive, Alessandro De Francesco, Hervé Guibert, Dick Raaijmakers, Avital Ronell, and Nachoem M. Wijnberg. His writings have appeared in ArtPapers, continent., nY, postmedieval, and Theory & Event, among other venues.
Edited:
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 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