Clara Vlessing is an interdisciplinary scholar in the humanities and an affiliated researcher of the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON). Her work looks at the relationship between memory and social movements with particular attention to the role of gender. She teaches literary and cultural analysis across media; theories of memory, decolonisation and gender; and creative and academic writing.
Clara has worked as a lecturer at 乐鱼后台 since 2018. In June 2023 defended her PhD, which was a part of the ERC-project . In 2024 she was a postdoctoral researcher on the NWO NWA-ORC project at Radboud University, Nijmegen. She is co-chair of the and has held organisational roles with the and .
Her expertise on the cultural remembrance of radical women is reflected in her peer-reviewed articles (, ), book chapters (, ) and co-edited collection ().
Clara is currently working on a monograph 鈥楻emembering Revolutionary Women: The Cultural Afterlives of Louise Michel, Emma Goldman and Sylvia Pankhurst鈥� which will be published in De Gruyter's series on Media and Cultural Memory Studies.