Jaap Kooijman (Amsterdam 1967) is Associate Professor at the Media and Culture (formerly Film and Television Studies) department of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. His essays on American politics, pop culture, and art have been published in The Presidential Studies Quarterly, The Velvet Light Trap, Post Script, The European Journal of Cultural Studies, and GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. His latest book is Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture (Amsterdam University Press, 2008). Kooijman is co-founder and co-coordinator of the joint ASCA-ICG resarch group The 9/11 Effect: Art and Cultural Politics in Post-9/11 Europe, and, together with Murat Aydemir, of the What’s Queer Here? research project. He is also the ASCA coordinator of the European Summer School in Cultural Studies (ESSCS). In 2003, Kooijman was a visiting professor at the Cinema Studies department of New York University, and in 2009 at the Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature department of the University of Minnesota. In 2006, he won the ASCA Article Award for his essay “Family Portrait: Queering the Nuclear Family in François Ozon’s Sitcom.”