Curriculum Vitae
Personal Information
Name: Ingrid Maria HOOFD
Date of birth: 14 December 1970
Place of birth: Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
Address: Blk 41 Hindhede Walk #05-07, Singapore 587972
E-mail: abqbqq@r.postjobfree.com or abqbqq@r.postjobfree.com
Mobile: +65-9348-3039 or +65-8382-4328
Current position: Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Communications and New Media Programme (CNM), Faculty of Arts
and Social Sciences (FASS), National University of Singapore (NUS)
Website: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/cnmhim/
Languages: English, Dutch, German
Educational Background
July 2006 Awarded the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Faculty of Arts
and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore
2002 2006 PhD Candidate, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University
of Singapore. Dissertation title: Between Activism and Academia: the
Complicities of Alter-Globalist Resistances in Speed
April 2001 Master of Arts (MA) Cum Laude (with Distinction) in Women s
Studies and Media Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Thesis
title: Western Cyber-feminism at the End of the Second Millennium
1997 1998 Women s and Equality Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland
July 1996 Bachelor of Arts ( Propaedeuse ) in Language and Culture Studies,
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
1994 2001 Language and Culture Studies ( Algemene Letteren ), Humanities
( Geesteswetenschappen ) Faculty, Utrecht University, the Netherlands,
Specialisations: Women s Studies and Media Studies
1988 1990 Theoretical Physics, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
1982 1988 Stedelijk Gymnasium Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Awards and Scholarships (Academic)
February 2011 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, FASS
July 2010 Writing Semester Award, Asia Research Institute (ARI), NUS
May 2010 University Annual Teaching Excellence Award, NUS
November 2009 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, FASS
June 2009 CNM Excellent Teacher Award
December 2007 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, FASS
January 2005 President s Graduate Fellowship (PGF) Award for exceptional promise
or accomplishment in research. Dept. of English Language and Literature,
FASS, NUS
July 2002 Full Four-Year PhD Scholarship, NUS
Teaching Experience (Academic)
2006 Assistant Professor, CNM, FASS, National University of Singapore
Full modules developed and taught:
NM2218 Critical Approaches to Interactive Media
XD3102 Gender Studies across Disciplines
NM4204 Ethical Issues in Emergent Technologies
NM4212 Media and Representation
NM6101 Advanced Theories in CNM
NM6202 Technological Embodiments
2006 Modules co-taught:
NM1101E Introduction to CNM
NM2216 Aesthetics of New Media
NM4101 Advanced Research Methods
NM5211 Serious Games and Learning Media
NM6102 Graduate Research Methods in CNM
2006 Graduate supervision to date: MA (8) and PhD (5)
Jan. May 2006 Lecturer and tutor for NM2218 Critical Introduction to Gaming, and
for NM4204 Ethics in the Information Age, CNM, FASS, NUS
Jan. May 2005 Tutor and co-teacher for IF2210 Aesthetics of New Media, Dept. of
Information and Communication Management (ICM), FASS, NUS
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Jan. May 2005 Tutor for GEK1031 American Film, Dept. of English Language and
Literature (ELL), FASS, NUS
July Nov. 2004 Tutor for EN1101E Introduction to Literary Studies, ELL, FASS, NUS
Jan. May 2004 Tutor for IF2210 Aesthetics of New Media, ICM, and GEK1031
American Film, ELL, FASS, NUS
November 2001 Teacher for Internet, E-mail, Privacy, Databases and Security at
Digitales: Three days of meetings on women and ICTs (Brussels, Belgium)
Sept. Dec. 2001 Co-teacher and tutor for European Online Distance Learning (ODL)
course Gendering Cyberspace: Multimedia and Multicultural Gender
Studies in Europe, Utrecht University (UU), the Netherlands
October 2001 Co-teacher Cyber-feminism and Feminism on Issues of Globalisation
for Gender, Ethnicity and Cultural Criticism, Women s Studies,
Humanities Faculty, UU
September 2001 Teacher Digital Activism and Resistance for the NOISE European
Summer School Diasporic Identities and Medi@ted Cultures: Gender, Power,
Representations (Madrid, Spain)
March April 2001 Co-teacher Digital Activism and Resistance for New Media and New
Citizenship, Women s Studies, Humanities Faculty, UU
Teacher of ICT classes for NOISE European Summer School Diasporic
September 2000
Identities and Medi@ted Cultures: Gender, Power, Representations (Pisa, Italy)
Sept. Nov. 2000 Tutor and manager for European Online Distance Learning (ODL)
course Gendering Cyberspace: Multimedia and Multicultural Gender
Studies in Europe, UU
1999 Co-teacher for Computer and History, History Department,
Humanities Faculty, UU
Coordination, Service and Administrative Experience (Academic)
2010 Graduate Students Teaching Award Selection (GSTA) committee
member, FASS, NUS
2009 University Town Third Module (Senior Seminar) curriculum
development committee member, NUS
2008 Co-producer and Programme Committee Member ISEA2008
(International Symposium on Electronic Art), Singapore
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2007 International Non-Graduating and Student Exchange Programme (SEP)
Coordinator, CNM, FASS, NUS
Co-editor for Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices, ISSN 1753-0873
2007
2005 2006 Co-developer of the Open Spaces for Dialogue and Enquiry (OSDE)
Methodology, CSSGJ, Nottingham University, United Kingdom
1999 2002 Multimedia Project Coordinator, Women s Studies, UU
Major projects:
Website programmer and new media coordinator for the
Fourth European Feminist Research Conference Body, Gender,
Subjectivity. Crossing borders of disciplines and institutions
(Bologna, Italy) http://www.women.it/quarta/ and
http://nextgenderation.let.uu.nl
Coordinator of all websites and digital courseware related to
Women's Studies, Humanities Faculty, Utrecht University
Website programmer and coordinator of the Online Distance
Learning (ODL) module Gendering Cyberspace: Multimedia
and Multicultural Gender Studies in Europe
Coordinator of the Women s Studies Educational and Research
Database, in cooperation with the International Information
Centre and Archives for the Women s Movement ( IIAV,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Humanities Faculty, UU
1999 2001 Member of the curriculum development committee for Women s
Studies, and Member of the Faculty ICT Coordination Committee,
Humanities Faculty, UU
1999 2000 Co-organiser HelpB92 and NetAid for the independent media in
former Yugoslavia, De Balie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Co-programmer HelpB92 website http://helpb92.xs4all.nl/, XS4ALL and
De Balie (Amsterdam) in cooperation with Radio B92 (Belgrade, Serbia)
1998 1999 Co-producer Next Five Minutes 3 Conference on Tactical Media
(N5M3), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Curator N5M3 Cyber-feminism Theme, and Co-programmer N5M3
website De Waag - Society for Old and New Media, De Balie, The
Digital City (Amsterdam), V2_Organisation (Rotterdam)
1999 Digitalisation Historisch Ambacht module, Department of History,
Humanities Faculty, UU
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1995 1996 Secretary of the University Environmental Platform ( Universitair Milieu
Platform UMP ), UU
1992 1993 Project Coordinator Environmental Friendly Inner City, Milieu
Actiewinkel Nijmegen in cooperation with the Ministry of Housing,
Spatial Planning and the Environment ( VROM ), the Netherlands
Monograph
HOOFD, I M, Ambiguities of Activism: Alter-globalism and the Imperatives of Speed. Forthcoming
with the Routledge series in Media and Cultural Studies, 2012.
Articles in Journals
Refereed
HOOFD, I M, Questioning (as) Violence: Teaching Ethics in a Global Knowledge Enterprise.
Ethics and Education, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2011).
HOOFD, I M, The Accelerated University: Activist-Academic Alliances and the Simulation of
Thought. Ephemera: Theory and politics in organisation, Vol. 10, No.1 (September 2010).
HOOFD, I M, Between Baudrillard, Braidotti and Butler: Rethinking Left-Wing Feminist Theory
in Light of Neoliberal Acceleration. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies Vol.7, No.2 (July
2010).
HOOFD, I M, Singapore: bridgehead of the west or counterforce? The s[t]imulation of creative
and critical thought in Singapore s higher education policies. Globalisation, Societies and Education,
Vol. 8, No.2 (June 2010).
HOOFD, I M, De Acceleratie van Verschillen: De Rol van Feministisch Transnationaal
Activisme in Technocratische Globalisering. Gender. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies 12, No.4
(Winter 2009).
HOOFD, I M, Activism, Academia, and the Humanist Aporia: Indymedia intensified in the age of
neo-liberal globalisation. Cultural Politics, Vol.5, No.2 (2009).
HOOFD, I M, Complicit Subversions: Cultural new media activism and high theory. First
Monday, Vol. 13, no.10 (2008).
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HOOFD, I M, The Neoliberal Consolidation of Play and Speed: Ethical Issues in Serious
Gaming. Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices, Vol.1, no.2 (2007).
Biemann, U. and HOOFD, I M, Remote Sensing: routing female bodies in the age of geographic
information systems. Static Online Journal, no. 2 (Trafficking) (2006).
HOOFD, I M, De obsessie met Hirsi Ali en de broodnodige kritiek op het neo-liberalisme.
Gender. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, no. 4 (Winter 2005).
HOOFD, I M, The Migrant Metaphor in Radical Italian Thought. Cultural Studies Review, 11, no.
2 (Italian Effects) (2005).
HOOFD, I M, Dialogues between Paul Virilio and Chela Sandoval. Towards a better
understanding of uses and abuses of new technologies. Genders, no. 39 (2004).
HOOFD, I M, Een alternatieve geografie van gender en globalisering. Gender. Tijdschrift voor
Genderstudies, no. 1 (Spring 2003).
Non-Refereed
HOOFD, I M, The Use of Peer Review as a Pedagogical Tool in a New Media Ethics Module.
CDTL Brief, December 2010.
HOOFD, I M, Minding the Gap: Barack Obama and the Demise of Representational Politics.
Flow, Vol. 9, no.7 (2009).
HOOFD, I M, Between Structure and Agency: On art and politics in the age of techno-
capitalism. Singapore: Post-museum Exhibition Brochure, 2009.
HOOFD, I M, East Talking to West : The Digital Mediation of Arundhati Roy. Flow, Vol. 9,
no.3 (2008).
Biglia, B., HOOFD, I M, and Zavos, A., Questioning the Political Implications of Feminist
Activism and Research in Different Settings. CASAZine, no. 1 (2005).
HOOFD, I M, Cyborg Manifesto 2.0: discussions in feminist figurations, new technologies and
social change. CyberartsWeb, n/a (Cyberspace, Hypertext, and Critical Theory) (2002).
HOOFD, I M, A Hypertext Poetics: from Aristotle to neo-katharsis. CyberartsWeb, n/a
(Cyberspace, Hypertext, and Critical Theory) (2002).
HOOFD, I M, The development of Open and Distance Learning through the use of ICTs in
Women s Studies. Athena. The Making of European Women s Studies, 3, no. 1 (2000).
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Currently under Review
HOOFD, I M, The Acceleration of the East-West Difference: Feminist cross-border politics
and technocratic globalisation. Under review for Angelaki.
HOOFD, I M, The Accelerated Community: On the Tensions and Paradoxes of Social Media .
Under review for Leonardo Electronic Almanac.
Book Chapters
HOOFD, I M, Making Sense of the AWARE Saga: the Aporetic Enactment of Feminist
Responsibility in Singapore. Troublesome Women in Asia. The Politics of Gender in Singapore and
Malaysia, ed. Koh, Adeline and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (forthcoming 2011).
HOOFD, I M, The Advancement of Student Empowerment through e-Learning in Higher
Education: Some Larger Concerns. Technology in Higher Education: the State of the Art, eds. Liew
Shin Dee and Chng Huang Hoon. Singapore: Grenadier Press, 2011.
HOOFD, I M, Feminist activism in the high-tech West: The complicity of transversal and
networked politics in speed. In Gender and Citizenship in a Multicultural Context, ed. Waaldijk, B.,
Olesky, E., and Peto, A. Peter Lang Publishing Group, Berlin/New York, 2007.
Conference Papers
HOOFD, I M, Of Revolutions, Springs and Riots: the Usurpation of Democratic Ideals in
Techno-Economic Velocity. The Formation of Normative Orders, 18-20 November 2011,
Goethe Universit t, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
HOOFD, I M, Baudrillard and the Urgency of Absence: The Subject of Feminist Representation
Revisited. American Comparative Literature Association 2011, 31 March - 3 April 2011, Simon
Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
HOOFD, I M, Making Sense of the AWARE Saga: Multiculturalism, Religion, and the Limits of
the Secular in Singapore. Joint Seminar Series in History, Literature, Religion and Philosophy, 26
Oct 2010, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia.
HOOFD, I M, Raising the Stakes: New Intersections of Baudrillard's Strategy and Feminist
Theory. Asia Research Institute (ARI) Seminar Series, 19 Oct 2010, Singapore.
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HOOFD, I M, The acceleration of critical thinking in the Asian global knowledge enterprise.
ACS Crossroads 2010, 17 - 21 Jun 2010, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
HOOFD, I M, The simulation of gender under techno-capitalism: a case for revisiting feminist
representational strategies. Representation Now, 16-17 April 2010, Saint Louis University,
Madrid, Spain.
HOOFD, I M, Whither conventional notions of emancipation? The collusion of feminist agency
in the neo-liberal acceleration of capital. 34th Annual Social Sciences and History Association
Meeting Agency and Action, 12 15 November 2009, Long Beach, California, United States.
HOOFD, I M, The Calculated Community: On the Tensions and Paradoxes of Social Media .
Workshop The Calculus of Community, 16 October 2009, University Scholars Programme,
National University of Singapore.
HOOFD, I M, Singapore: Bridgehead of the West or Counterforce? The S[t]imulation of
Creative and Critical Thought in Singapore s Higher Education Renaissance City Policies.
(Invited paper). The perils and opportunities of the internationalisation of higher education, 25-
26 September 2009, Universit de Lausanne, Switzerland.
HOOFD I M, The Acceleration of the East-West Difference: Feminist cross-border politics and
technocratic globalisation. Gendering East/West, 8-10 July 2009, University of York, United
Kingdom.
HOOFD, I M, Repeating the Dream of Speed: Left-Wing Techno-Feminism and the New
Nostalgia. 7th European Feminist Research Conference, 4-7 June 2009, Utrecht University, the
Netherlands.
HOOFD, I M, Ethics, Ethnics, and Pedagogy: On Teaching Ethics in a Multicultural Classroom.
Re-visioning English Studies in Asia, 20 - 22 November 2008, Seoul National University/ELLAK,
Onyang, South Korea.
HOOFD, I M, Mediations of East and West : The Productive Borders of Networked
Globalisation. International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), 25 July - 3 August 2008,
National University of Singapore and Singapore Management University, Singapore.
HOOFD, I M, Between Nostalgia and Techno-Salvation: Left-Wing European Feminism and
the Implosion of Alterity in the Media. Console-ing Passions 2008: International Conference on
Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism. 24 26 April 2008, University of California
Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States.
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HOOFD, I M, Tools of Engagement: Critical Thinking for the Creative Industries. The Fourth
Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment 3 - 5 Dec 2007, Storey Hall, RMIT
University, Melbourne, Australia.
HOOFD, I M, The Neoliberal Consolidation of Play and Speed: Ethical Issues in Serious
Gaming. Internet Research 8.0: Let's Play 17 - 20 Oct 2007, Simon Fraser University (SFU)
Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada.
HOOFD, I M, The Accelerated University: Academic Alliances and the Militarisation of
Thought. Theory, Culture and Society anniversary conference Ubiquitous Media: Asian
Transformations, University of Tokyo, Honsei Campus, Tokyo, Japan.
HOOFD, I M, Questioning (as) Violence: Teaching Ethics in a Global Knowledge Enterprise.
Forty Years of Structure, Sign, and Play: Critical Method in the Humanities and Sciences,
National University of Singapore, Singapore.
HOOFD, I M, Feminist activisms in high-tech Europe: the complicities of resistance in the age
of speed. Sixth European gender Research Conference, 31 Aug 3 Sep 2006, University of
d, d, Poland.
HOOFD, I M, The migrant metaphor in radical Italian thought: whose liberation are we talking
about, anyway? 9 Sep 11 Sep 2004, The Italian Effect: Radical Thought, Biopolitics and
Cultural Subversion, University of Sydney and University of Technology, Australia.
HOOFD, I M, Problematic empowerments, complicit resistances: the dreams and tools of new
media alter-globalist activism. Centre for Global Education Seminar. 12 May 2005, School of
Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Nottingham University, United Kingdom.
HOOFD, I M, Being indebted to Derrida and feminism: a brief in memoriam to Jacques
Derrida. Seminar Derrida and Debt. 3 November 2004, Department of English Language and
Literature, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.
HOOFD, I M, Academic Feminism and the Global Spread of Eurocentrism. Gender Studies in
Asia: Peoples, Politics and Power. 23 - 24 Sep 2004, Asia Research Institute, National University
of Singapore, Singapore.
HOOFD, I M, The problem with activism and academia: the problematic repetition of the
Eurocentric subject as the centre of liberatory social change. CASA 2004: Acting and Spectating
2 - 5 July 2004, ASCA, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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HOOFD, I M, Problems within the Indymedia project. The Other Internet: Exploring Digital
Resistance 2 3 Apr 2004, American University of Paris, France.
HOOFD, I M, New Cyberfeminism in the New Millennium. The Fourth European Feminist
Research Conference: Body, gender, subjectivity. Crossing borders of disciplines and institutions.
28 Sept 1 Oct 2000, Bologna, Italy.
Book Review
HOOFD, I M, Of Lethal Tanks and Uncertain Ends. A Review of Bishop s Baudrillard Now.
Current Perspectives in Baudrillard Studies, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1
(January 2011).
HOOFD, I M, The Mechanics of the Liberatory Promise: A Review of Joss Hands @ is for
Activism. Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture, Cultural Politics (forthcoming 2011).
Public Talks
HOOFD, I M, The Virtues and Vices of SlutWalk: Some Feminist Concerns. Invited talk for
SlutWalk Singapore, 3 December 2011, Substation, Singapore.
HOOFD, I M, Female Empowerment in a Post-colonial Context. Female Empowerment:
Challenges and Opportunities, 27 Oct 2009, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management
University (SMU), Singapore.
HOOFD, I M, Online Social Movements: New Media and the Simulation of Democracy. NSCS
Think Forums, 26 Mar 2009, Ministry of National Development (MND), Singapore.
Editorial Work on Book
HOOFD, I M, Margaret Tan, and Katharine Ho Kit Ying, Proceedings of ISEA2008: The 14th
International Symposium on Electronic Art, Singapore: ISEA 2008, ISBN: 978-***-**-****-9.
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