About

Saskia Kroonenberg is a lecturer in cultural studies at Radboud University. Her work covers Antonio Gramsci, postcolonial and gender studies, new materialism and literature. She has published her articles in various journals as well as a monograph about the notion of the mother tongue in Italy. She has been a visiting fellow at inherit. heritage in transformation of the HU Berlin, the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, the Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies in Cologne, the University of Zurich and Utrecht University.

She was previously a Marie-Curie fellow at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities (University of Cologne), where she wrote a PhD on Antonio Gramsci’s political philosophy, postcolonial literature and new materialism. It was graded summa cum laude and won the Antonio Gramsci dissertation prize 2023.

She sometimes writes blogs for Atria and is a board member of Radboud’s Halkes Women+ Faculty Network. She also loves to dance.