International Study & External Programs :: Kasteel Well: Faculty Profiles

FALL 2009 FACULTY PROFILES

Dulcia Meijers has been the Director/Executive Director of Emerson College's European Center at Kasteel Well, the Netherlands, since 1992. Ms. Meijers graduated from the University of Nijmegen [now Radboud University] with an M.A. in Art History and Classical Archeology and a Ph.D. in the Architectural History of Italian/Venetian palaces from the late Renaissance and Baroque period. In addition to many scholarly articles, Ms. Meijers is co-author (with B. Aikema) of the book Nel Regno dei Poveri. Arte e storia dei Grandi Ospedali veneziani in eta moderna, 1474-1797(1989), and author of De gouden schemer van Venetie. Een portret van de Venetiaanse adel in de achttiende eeuw (1991). She has consulted with the city architects of Venice, Italy, on restoration projects, conducting archival research and art historical analysis of historically important buildings. In 1988 Ms. Meijers curated a retrospective exhibition of the artist Peter Goldschmidt (1923-1987) at the Museum of Rijswijk, and in 1991 she curated for the Historical Museum of Amsterdam the loan exhibition De Gouden Schemer van Venetie. Een portret van de Venetiaanse adel in de Achttiende eeuw. She is a member of the Board of Editors of the scholarly periodical Het Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, and secretary and treasurer of the foundation "Collection Mos" for the stimulation and development of the study and research of Italian Art in European context. Since 1986 Ms. Meijers has taught many courses at Kasteel Well in the areas of European Studies and Civilization, European Cultural History, and European Art History. Dr. Meijers co-teaches History of Western Art I: Renaissance and Baroque.
Chester Lee is the Assistant Director of Emerson College's European Center at Kasteel Well, the Netherlands. He graduated with his B.A. (Hons.) in World History from Chinese University of Hong Kong and has since studied, lived and traveled in different continents. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Media Studies and Cross-cultural Communications from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His academic interest lies in the area of anti-Semitism, xenophobia and the implementation and promotion of multicultural tolerance in a global perspective. Chester teaches Intercultural Communication.
Rob Dückers is Assistant Director for Administration and Management of the Emerson College European Center at Kasteel Well, the Netherlands. He studied Art-History at the Radboud University, Nijmegen and Codicology at the University of Leiden. In 1998, he received an honours-degree in Art-History from Radboud University, Nijmegen. His specialist fields are manuscript illumination, especially from the so-called Upper-Quarter of the Duchy of Guelders (i.e. present-day North-Limburg in the Netherlands) and medieval church-treasures. He regularly publishes and lectures on these subject. He taught and did research at the Radboud University, Nijmegen for over three years and was invited by Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, to curate the internationally acclaimed exhibition "The Limbourg Brothers. Nijmegen Masters at the French Court, 1400-1416", which was held in 2005 and showed loans from museums all over the world, amongst others the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museé du Louvre, Paris, the Vatican Library, Rome, and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles. At present, he is curating two more exhibitions, to be held in 2008 and 2009. Apart from his duties at Kasteel Well, he is writing his doctoral dissertation on two paraliturgical manuscripts from Maastricht and is also curator of the Treasury of the Basilica of Saint Servatius in that town, which has the finest collection of medieval and post medieval ecclesiastical art in situ in the Netherlands. Rob co-teaches History of Western Art I: Renaissance and Baroque.
Gerlo Beernink studied Science and Nature Studies at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. Since his graduation, he has been working as a freelance photographer and given many short-term courses on European Photojournalism to various audiences. In 2003 and 2004, he taught at the School of Journalism in Utrecht. Professionally, Gerlo has won several prominent prizes for his photo work : in 1991 he won a third prize at the World Press Photo Award under the category of “Daily Life”. In the same year, he also won the first prize for the Silver Camera Award under the category of foreign country. Gerlo teaches History of Photography at Kasteel Well.
Sophie Bonhôte is an actress, singer, theatre teacher, director, and Tai Chi Chuan instructor. She is originally from Switzerland but has lived in Liège, Belgium since 1987. She holds a graduate degree in modern languages including English, German, Italian and Spanish. Ms. Bonhote graduated in 1985 from the Royal Conservatory in Liège, majoring in Dramatic Arts. She has been an official teacher of the International Tai Chi Chuan Association since 1994, as well as an acting instructor at Castle Well. She has also conducted Clown and Improvisational Workshops since 1990. Ms. Bonhote has continuously played an active part in various public theatrical performances. She has been involved in many different acting companies in Belgium and Switzerland along with staging her own solo performances in various venues. Her professional knowledge on movement and skills of writing on stage through improvisation remains her strength as an acting instructor. Ms Bonhote co-teaches Acting III: Scene Study.
Babs Boter is a lecturer and researcher in the Departments of Gender Studies and American Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Having a background in history, literary studies and cultural studies, she teaches a variety of courses focusing on issues such as the representation of race, gender, and ethnicity in film and literary texts; the American sixties; canon formations; and postcolonial theory. She also teaches at University College Utrecht, where she offers an advanced course on “Gothic Traditions: Race, Gender, and Cultural Critique.” Dr. Boter’s dissertation, which she defended in 2005, is entitled: Fabrication of Selves: Girls of Color Coming of Age (University of Amsterdam, 2005). Her current research focuses on Dutch travelers’ accounts of North America (1870-1950) — in particular the ways in which female and male visitors to the US position themselves vis-à-vis America’s marginalized (and gendered, racialized) subjects. For a description, please go to http://www.genderstudies.nl/. In the Spring of 2009 Dr. Boter began teaching at Kasteel Well. She teaches Topics in Global Literature: Gender, Race, and Diaspora.
Patrick Cattrysse worked for several years as a media consultant/scriptwriter/producer before deciding to focus on scientific research and professional training within the field of audiovisual storytelling and communication. He has been teaching script writing since 1985 at several Belgian and international universities and film schools, among them the University of Antwerp (Masters in Film Studies), the University of Luuven (Postgraduate Cultural Studies), Turku University (Finland), NARAFI (Film Academy Brussels), St. Lukas Brussels (Section Graphic Novel) and the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (San Antonio, Cuba). He also works as a consultant/script-analyst for film and TV producers and directors. He has published numerous articles in many international scientific journals, mainly in the field of film and literary studies, film adaptation and script writing. In 1992, he published a book on film adaptation titled Pour une théorie de l'adaptation filmique. Le film noir Américain and in 1995 he published a Dutch manuals on scriptwriting called Handboek Scenarioschrijven. Patrick teaches Media Criticism and Theory, Writing the Feature Film and Intercultural Communication.
Richard Chetwynd graduated from Emerson College in Boston, USA. He obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Iowa where he taught briefly before taking up an opportunity to teach writing and poetry courses in Poland. In between 1991 and 1992, he taught respectively at the Pedagogical College in Bydgoszcz and Mikolai Copernicus University in Torun in Poland. He has also received teaching Fellowships and won several prizes honoring his talents in the area of translation and writing. Apart from his compassion for teaching, he is also a poet who has been active in writing and publishing poems since 1990s. He currently resides in Poland. He teaches a range of writing and literature courses including European Literature and Literary Foundations.
Michaëla Gauduchon was born in France. She received her D.E.A. in English Literature at the University of Nantes in France. She also holds a B.A. in English and French at Catholic University of l'Ouest in Angers, France. Afterwards, she pursued her M.A. at the University of Notre Dame in the U.S. She has extensive teaching experiences in teaching French as a Foreign Language both in France and in the U.S. She worked as an adjunct Professor of French at the University of Notre Dame between 1984 and 1989. She is also a qualified teacher teaching French/English translation. Currently she resides in the Netherlands and teaches Elementary French I at Kasteel Well.
Bianca Janssen Groesbeek was born in the Netherlands. She graduated from the Radboud University of Nijmegen, where she received an M.A. in Biology and in Philosophy. Ms. Janssen Groesbeek has extensive teaching experience at Dutch high schools in Biology, General Natural Sciences and Philosophy. She also co-authors school teaching methods. She has experience tutoring undergraduate students at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. She gives several courses, workshops and lectures for different audiences on the subject of evolution and animal behavior. She is a member of the editorial staff of the Philosophical Café in Nijmegen. Bianca teaches Ethics or Value Theory and Sophomore Honors Seminar.
Marjon de Groot was born in the Netherlands. She attended Moller-Institute, a teacher training-college, studying English between 1976 and 1977. Afterwards, she took several courses in drawing, needlework and art-history. She graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Tilburg in the field of painting, drawing and art-history. She then spent two years attending a postgraduate academy in Haarlem in the Netherlands specializing in the area of painting and drawing. In 1995, she started giving short courses in relation to the exhibitions in the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Later on she became the writer of exhibition texts for the Van Abbemuseum, writing more than 200 educational texts about 20th century works of art, ranging from cubist paintings by Picasso and Braque, expressionist works by Kandinsky and Kokoschka to postwar American artists such as Stella, Kelly or Nauman, European paintings and sculptures by Baselitz or Schütte and contemporary video art by Viola and Oursler. From 2002 onwards, she became teacher of History of Modern Art at the Parasol in Veldhoven. She co-teaches History of Art IV: Post WWII.
Martine Janssen graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Dance degree in Education from the Rotterdam Dance Academy. Prior to that she completed her pre-dance education at the Artez Dance education in Venlo. Martine specializes in the following dance styles: jazz, classical ballet, modern, children's dance and tap. Since 2005 Martine has taught at and run her own dance school, Dance School Martine, in Well, Limburg. The school enrolls approximately 350 students of all ages. Martine also teaches at the Arts Centre Jerusalem where she offers dance lessons for musical courses. She is currently preparing and will produce and choreograph a recital at a local theatre. She also produces dinner shows and performs in the area with her own production group. At Kasteel Well she is teaching Ballet I.
Geoffrey King was born in Croydon, England. His first musical training took place at the Royal School of Church Music. Later he studied at the Royal College of Music in London. Subsequently, a grant from the Italian government enabled him to do post-graduate work with Ernesto Rubin de Cervin and Giuseppe Sinopoli at the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in Venice, Italy. Geoffrey King lived in Edinburgh between 1976 and 1988. During that period he taught at St. Mary’s Music School and was also active in concert promotion in partnership with his colleague Peter Nelson. Together in 1979 they founded ECAT (Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust) which has become one of the foremost organizations for promoting new music in Scotland. He was composer-in-residence at Huddersfield Polytechnic and with the NCOS Symphony Orchestra, London at the end of the 80s. He then moved to the Netherlands, receiving a Dutch government scholarship to study at the Koninkijk Conservatorium in Den Haag. Subsequently, he settled in the Netherlands and in 1995 moved to Amsterdam where he now lives. Margritte Weather, King’s largest ensemble work, received its Belgian and Dutch premieres with the Schoenberg Ensemble under the direction of Oliver Knussen and in February 2000 performances were given by the London Sinfonietta in Paris and London. In March 2000 the first two of his series of concertetudes for keyboards were premiered in Utrecht, with harpsichord and piano. Geoffrey teaches History of Music: European.
Jenneke Lambert was born in the Netherlands. She graduated from the University of Leiden majoring in History of Art. She also holds a teaching degree from the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag. Her career path has since been related to teaching art history to various audiences. She lived with her family in Chappaqua, New York for two years. She is also actively involved in various art-related committees including the Municipal Committee for the Visual Arts in Geldrop and Eindhoven area. Since 2001, she has been working for Van Abbemuseum preparing courses on 20th century art. She co-teaches History of Art IV: Post WWII.
Emile Schra is active as a theatre consultant in an international & intercultural context. He was trained as a dramaturg (M.A. in 1985, State University of Utrecht, the Netherlands) and also has experience as a director. He has published several articles and books on theatre. In 1997 he started the PassePartout Studio, aiming at an international exchange in performing arts by means of training and research projects. His experience as a teacher varies from the Brabant Conservatory in Tilburg, the Netherlands (1999-2001) and the Drama school in Eindhoven, the Netherlands (1997-1999) to the School for Performing Arts in Bandung, Indonesia (2001). At Kasteel Well he teaches World Drama in Its Context I.
Ralph Trost was born in Germany. He studied History of Economics, History of the 19th and 20th Century and Political Science at the University of Mannheim in Germany. He has conducted research at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain on the Spanish Civil War. He received his Masters Degree from Mannheim focusing on “Structural Changes in Eastern Germany between 1989-1993.” Afterwards, he wrote his doctoral thesis on “National Socialism, War and End of War in Xanten” and completed his doctorate at the University of Flensburg in Germany. He has published several articles and books and has worked as a journalist for different German newspapers, journals, radio and television stations. From 2003 to 2007 he has worked at the National Bevrijdings museum 1944-1945 in Groesbeek in the Netherlands on several historical projects. Since 2007 he is the director of the museum “Nibelungen(h)ort” in Xanten. At Kasteel Well he teaches The World since 1914.
Gert-Jan van der Heiden is a Dutch national. He is an Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) at the Department of Metaphysics and Epistemology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Radboud University, Nijmegen. He studied philosophy and mathematics at the University of Groningen. In 2003 he completed his dissertation in mathematics entitled Weil Pairing and the Drinfeld Modular Curve (University of Groningen). In 2008 he completed his dissertation in philosophy entitled Disclosure and Displacement: Truth and Language in the Work of Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Derrida (Radboud University Nijmegen). His main field of interest concerns contemporary hermeneutic thought and deconstruction, and he publishes mainly on contemporary French thought. He is especially interested in the relation between philosophy and literature or poetry. At Kasteel Well he will teach Ethics or Value Theory.
(as of 7/2/09)

Dulcia Meijers has been the Director/Executive Director of Emerson College's European Center at Kasteel Well, the Netherlands, since 1992. Ms. Meijers graduated from the University of Nijmegen [now Radboud University] with an M.A. in Art History and Classical Archeology and a Ph.D. in the Architectural History of Italian/Venetian palaces from the late Renaissance and Baroque period. In addition to many scholarly articles, Ms. Meijers is co-author (with B. Aikema) of the book Nel Regno dei Poveri. Arte e storia dei Grandi Ospedali veneziani in eta moderna, 1474-1797(1989), and author of De gouden schemer van Venetie. Een portret van de Venetiaanse adel in de achttiende eeuw (1991). She has consulted with the city architects of Venice, Italy, on restoration projects, conducting archival research and art historical analysis of historically important buildings. In 1988 Ms. Meijers curated a retrospective exhibition of the artist Peter Goldschmidt (1923-1987) at the Museum of Rijswijk, and in 1991 she curated for the Historical Museum of Amsterdam the loan exhibition De Gouden Schemer van Venetie. Een portret van de Venetiaanse adel in de Achttiende eeuw. She is a member of the Board of Editors of the scholarly periodical Het Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, and secretary and treasurer of the foundation "Collection Mos" for the stimulation and development of the study and research of Italian Art in European context. Since 1986 Ms. Meijers has taught many courses at Kasteel Well in the areas of European Studies and Civilization, European Cultural History, and European Art History. Dr. Meijers co-teaches History of Western Art I: Renaissance and Baroque.

Chester Lee is the Assistant Director of Emerson College's European Center at Kasteel Well, the Netherlands. He graduated with his B.A. (Hons.) in World History from Chinese University of Hong Kong and has since studied, lived and traveled in different continents. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Media Studies and Cross-cultural Communications from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His academic interest lies in the area of anti-Semitism, xenophobia and the implementation and promotion of multicultural tolerance in a global perspective. Chester teaches Intercultural Communication.

Rob Dückers is Assistant Director for Administration and Management of the Emerson College European Center at Kasteel Well, the Netherlands. He studied Art-History at the Radboud University, Nijmegen and Codicology at the University of Leiden. In 1998, he received an honours-degree in Art-History from Radboud University, Nijmegen. His specialist fields are manuscript illumination, especially from the so-called Upper-Quarter of the Duchy of Guelders (i.e. present-day North-Limburg in the Netherlands) and medieval church-treasures. He regularly publishes and lectures on these subject. He taught and did research at the Radboud University, Nijmegen for over three years and was invited by Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, to curate the internationally acclaimed exhibition "The Limbourg Brothers. Nijmegen Masters at the French Court, 1400-1416", which was held in 2005 and showed loans from museums all over the world, amongst others the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museé du Louvre, Paris, the Vatican Library, Rome, and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles. At present, he is curating two more exhibitions, to be held in 2008 and 2009. Apart from his duties at Kasteel Well, he is writing his doctoral dissertation on two paraliturgical manuscripts from Maastricht and is also curator of the Treasury of the Basilica of Saint Servatius in that town, which has the finest collection of medieval and post medieval ecclesiastical art in situ in the Netherlands. Rob co-teaches History of Western Art I: Renaissance and Baroque.

Gerlo Beernink studied Science and Nature Studies at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. Since his graduation, he has been working as a freelance photographer and given many short-term courses on European Photojournalism to various audiences. In 2003 and 2004, he taught at the School of Journalism in Utrecht. Professionally, Gerlo has won several prominent prizes for his photo work : in 1991 he won a third prize at the World Press Photo Award under the category of “Daily Life”. In the same year, he also won the first prize for the Silver Camera Award under the category of foreign country. Gerlo teaches History of Photography at Kasteel Well.

Sophie Bonhôte is an actress, singer, theatre teacher, director, and Tai Chi Chuan instructor. She is originally from Switzerland but has lived in Liège, Belgium since 1987. She holds a graduate degree in modern languages including English, German, Italian and Spanish. Ms. Bonhote graduated in 1985 from the Royal Conservatory in Liège, majoring in Dramatic Arts. She has been an official teacher of the International Tai Chi Chuan Association since 1994, as well as an acting instructor at Castle Well. She has also conducted Clown and Improvisational Workshops since 1990. Ms. Bonhote has continuously played an active part in various public theatrical performances. She has been involved in many different acting companies in Belgium and Switzerland along with staging her own solo performances in various venues. Her professional knowledge on movement and skills of writing on stage through improvisation remains her strength as an acting instructor. Ms Bonhote co-teaches Acting III: Scene Study.

Babs Boter is a lecturer and researcher in the Departments of Gender Studies and American Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Having a background in history, literary studies and cultural studies, she teaches a variety of courses focusing on issues such as the representation of race, gender, and ethnicity in film and literary texts; the American sixties; canon formations; and postcolonial theory. She also teaches at University College Utrecht, where she offers an advanced course on “Gothic Traditions: Race, Gender, and Cultural Critique.” Dr. Boter’s dissertation, which she defended in 2005, is entitled: Fabrication of Selves: Girls of Color Coming of Age (University of Amsterdam, 2005). Her current research focuses on Dutch travelers’ accounts of North America (1870-1950) — in particular the ways in which female and male visitors to the US position themselves vis-à-vis America’s marginalized (and gendered, racialized) subjects. For a description, please go to http://www.genderstudies.nl/. In the Spring of 2009 Dr. Boter began teaching at Kasteel Well. She teaches Topics in Global Literature: Gender, Race, and Diaspora.

Patrick Cattrysse worked for several years as a media consultant/scriptwriter/producer before deciding to focus on scientific research and professional training within the field of audiovisual storytelling and communication. He has been teaching script writing since 1985 at several Belgian and international universities and film schools, among them the University of Antwerp (Masters in Film Studies), the University of Luuven (Postgraduate Cultural Studies), Turku University (Finland), NARAFI (Film Academy Brussels), St. Lukas Brussels (Section Graphic Novel) and the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (San Antonio, Cuba). He also works as a consultant/script-analyst for film and TV producers and directors. He has published numerous articles in many international scientific journals, mainly in the field of film and literary studies, film adaptation and script writing. In 1992, he published a book on film adaptation titled Pour une théorie de l'adaptation filmique. Le film noir Américain and in 1995 he published a Dutch manuals on scriptwriting called Handboek Scenarioschrijven. Patrick teaches Media Criticism and Theory, Writing the Feature Film and Intercultural Communication.

Richard Chetwynd graduated from Emerson College in Boston, USA. He obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Iowa where he taught briefly before taking up an opportunity to teach writing and poetry courses in Poland. In between 1991 and 1992, he taught respectively at the Pedagogical College in Bydgoszcz and Mikolai Copernicus University in Torun in Poland. He has also received teaching Fellowships and won several prizes honoring his talents in the area of translation and writing. Apart from his compassion for teaching, he is also a poet who has been active in writing and publishing poems since 1990s. He currently resides in Poland. He teaches a range of writing and literature courses including European Literature and Literary Foundations.

Michaëla Gauduchon was born in France. She received her D.E.A. in English Literature at the University of Nantes in France. She also holds a B.A. in English and French at Catholic University of l'Ouest in Angers, France. Afterwards, she pursued her M.A. at the University of Notre Dame in the U.S. She has extensive teaching experiences in teaching French as a Foreign Language both in France and in the U.S. She worked as an adjunct Professor of French at the University of Notre Dame between 1984 and 1989. She is also a qualified teacher teaching French/English translation. Currently she resides in the Netherlands and teaches Elementary French I at Kasteel Well.

Bianca Janssen Groesbeek was born in the Netherlands. She graduated from the Radboud University of Nijmegen, where she received an M.A. in Biology and in Philosophy. Ms. Janssen Groesbeek has extensive teaching experience at Dutch high schools in Biology, General Natural Sciences and Philosophy. She also co-authors school teaching methods. She has experience tutoring undergraduate students at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. She gives several courses, workshops and lectures for different audiences on the subject of evolution and animal behavior. She is a member of the editorial staff of the Philosophical Café in Nijmegen. Bianca teaches Ethics or Value Theory and Sophomore Honors Seminar.

Marjon de Groot was born in the Netherlands. She attended Moller-Institute, a teacher training-college, studying English between 1976 and 1977. Afterwards, she took several courses in drawing, needlework and art-history. She graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Tilburg in the field of painting, drawing and art-history. She then spent two years attending a postgraduate academy in Haarlem in the Netherlands specializing in the area of painting and drawing. In 1995, she started giving short courses in relation to the exhibitions in the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Later on she became the writer of exhibition texts for the Van Abbemuseum, writing more than 200 educational texts about 20th century works of art, ranging from cubist paintings by Picasso and Braque, expressionist works by Kandinsky and Kokoschka to postwar American artists such as Stella, Kelly or Nauman, European paintings and sculptures by Baselitz or Schütte and contemporary video art by Viola and Oursler. From 2002 onwards, she became teacher of History of Modern Art at the Parasol in Veldhoven. She co-teaches History of Art IV: Post WWII.

Martine Janssen graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Dance degree in Education from the Rotterdam Dance Academy. Prior to that she completed her pre-dance education at the Artez Dance education in Venlo. Martine specializes in the following dance styles: jazz, classical ballet, modern, children's dance and tap. Since 2005 Martine has taught at and run her own dance school, Dance School Martine, in Well, Limburg. The school enrolls approximately 350 students of all ages. Martine also teaches at the Arts Centre Jerusalem where she offers dance lessons for musical courses. She is currently preparing and will produce and choreograph a recital at a local theatre. She also produces dinner shows and performs in the area with her own production group. At Kasteel Well she is teaching Ballet I.

Geoffrey King was born in Croydon, England. His first musical training took place at the Royal School of Church Music. Later he studied at the Royal College of Music in London. Subsequently, a grant from the Italian government enabled him to do post-graduate work with Ernesto Rubin de Cervin and Giuseppe Sinopoli at the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in Venice, Italy. Geoffrey King lived in Edinburgh between 1976 and 1988. During that period he taught at St. Mary’s Music School and was also active in concert promotion in partnership with his colleague Peter Nelson. Together in 1979 they founded ECAT (Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust) which has become one of the foremost organizations for promoting new music in Scotland. He was composer-in-residence at Huddersfield Polytechnic and with the NCOS Symphony Orchestra, London at the end of the 80s. He then moved to the Netherlands, receiving a Dutch government scholarship to study at the Koninkijk Conservatorium in Den Haag. Subsequently, he settled in the Netherlands and in 1995 moved to Amsterdam where he now lives. Margritte Weather, King’s largest ensemble work, received its Belgian and Dutch premieres with the Schoenberg Ensemble under the direction of Oliver Knussen and in February 2000 performances were given by the London Sinfonietta in Paris and London. In March 2000 the first two of his series of concertetudes for keyboards were premiered in Utrecht, with harpsichord and piano. Geoffrey teaches History of Music: European.

Jenneke Lambert was born in the Netherlands. She graduated from the University of Leiden majoring in History of Art. She also holds a teaching degree from the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag. Her career path has since been related to teaching art history to various audiences. She lived with her family in Chappaqua, New York for two years. She is also actively involved in various art-related committees including the Municipal Committee for the Visual Arts in Geldrop and Eindhoven area. Since 2001, she has been working for Van Abbemuseum preparing courses on 20th century art. She co-teaches History of Art IV: Post WWII.

Emile Schra is active as a theatre consultant in an international & intercultural context. He was trained as a dramaturg (M.A. in 1985, State University of Utrecht, the Netherlands) and also has experience as a director. He has published several articles and books on theatre. In 1997 he started the PassePartout Studio, aiming at an international exchange in performing arts by means of training and research projects. His experience as a teacher varies from the Brabant Conservatory in Tilburg, the Netherlands (1999-2001) and the Drama school in Eindhoven, the Netherlands (1997-1999) to the School for Performing Arts in Bandung, Indonesia (2001). At Kasteel Well he teaches World Drama in Its Context I.

Ralph Trost was born in Germany. He studied History of Economics, History of the 19th and 20th Century and Political Science at the University of Mannheim in Germany. He has conducted research at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain on the Spanish Civil War. He received his Masters Degree from Mannheim focusing on “Structural Changes in Eastern Germany between 1989-1993.” Afterwards, he wrote his doctoral thesis on “National Socialism, War and End of War in Xanten” and completed his doctorate at the University of Flensburg in Germany. He has published several articles and books and has worked as a journalist for different German newspapers, journals, radio and television stations. From 2003 to 2007 he has worked at the National Bevrijdings museum 1944-1945 in Groesbeek in the Netherlands on several historical projects. Since 2007 he is the director of the museum “Nibelungen(h)ort” in Xanten. At Kasteel Well he teaches The World since 1914.

Gert-Jan van der Heiden is a Dutch national. He is an Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) at the Department of Metaphysics and Epistemology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Radboud University, Nijmegen. He studied philosophy and mathematics at the University of Groningen. In 2003 he completed his dissertation in mathematics entitled Weil Pairing and the Drinfeld Modular Curve (University of Groningen). In 2008 he completed his dissertation in philosophy entitled Disclosure and Displacement: Truth and Language in the Work of Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Derrida (Radboud University Nijmegen). His main field of interest concerns contemporary hermeneutic thought and deconstruction, and he publishes mainly on contemporary French thought. He is especially interested in the relation between philosophy and literature or poetry. At Kasteel Well he will teach Ethics or Value Theory.

(as of 7/2/09)