Layal Ftouni

Layal Ftouni is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory at the Graduate Gender Programme at Utrecht University, Netherlands. She is the recipient of the Dutch Research Council Veni award to undertake research on a project entitled Ecologies of Violence: Affirmatios of Life at the Frontiers of Survival. The project explores the politics of life and living in conditions of proximity to death and debilitation, both human and environmental, focusing on the settler colonial context of Palestine. Layal is also founding member of Dutch Scholars for Palestine, a network of academic workers and scholars across Dutch Universities committed to solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Before joining Utrecht University, she lectured at SOAS, University of London and earned her PhD from the University of Westminster. Her writing appeared on different platforms and featured in a variety of publications, the most recent of which is: “”They make death and I am the labor of Life”: Palestinian Prisoners Sperm Smuggling as an Affirmation of Life” published in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory.