About
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei studied classical composition, linguistics, multimedia art, and group-analytic psychotherapy. He received his Ph.D. in Media & Communications from the European Graduate School and Ph.D. in Modern Thought from the University of Aberdeen.
Van Gerven Oei is co-director of scholar-led open-access press
punctum books and board member of the
Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association. As a philologist, he specializes in the Old Nubian language, publishing
A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian (Peeters, forthcoming 2021). He is co-founder of the
Union for Nubian Studies and co-managing editor of
Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies.
Furthermore, Van Gerven Oei is co-founder of project bureau for the arts and humanities
The Department of Eagles, media outlet
Exit, and the Ottonomy Foundation in Albania. His three-volume work
Lapidari (punctum books, 2015) provides the first complete overview of socialist monumentality in Albania. He is also editor of the
New World Summit.
As a translator, Van Gerven Oei works mostly with anonymous Makuritan scribes and more recent authors such as Jean Daive, Hervé Guibert, Werner Hamacher, Dick Raaijmakers, Avital Ronell, and Nachoem M. Wijnberg. He has an ongoing collaboration with Japanese manga artist Gengoroh Tagame. His writings have appeared in
Afterall, Glossa, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, postmedieval, and
Theory & Event, among other venues.