About
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei received his Ph.D. in Media & Communications from the European Graduate School and Ph.D. in Modern Thought from the University of Aberdeen. He is a philologist and co-director of independent open-access publishing platform
punctum books. He is a specialist of the Old Nubian language and co-editor-in-chief of
Dotawo, the imprint of the Union for Nubian Studies. He also directs project bureau for the arts and humanities
The Department of Eagles and is editor of the
New World Summit.
Van Gerven Oei’s recent publications include
Cross-Examinations (MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015), and the edited volumes
Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura (2019, with Marco Mazzi) and
‘Pataphilology: An Irreader (2018, with Sean Gurd). His three-volume work
Lapidari (punctum books, 2015)
provides the first complete overview of socialist monumentality in Albania.
As a translator, Van Gerven Oei works mostly with anonymous Medieval Nubian scribes and more recent authors such as Jean Daive, Hervé Guibert, Werner Hamacher, Dick Raaijmakers, Avital Ronell, and Nachoem M. Wijnberg. His writings have appeared in
Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry; ART PAPERS; Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics; postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies; Theory & Event; and
tripwire, a journal of poetics, among other venues.