Marrigje Paijmans works as Assistant Professor in Dutch Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She studies early modern literature from a critical analysis perspective to recover marginalised voices, thus balancing our understanding of the past. Her current project ‘Literary Unsettlements’ analyses voices of dissent in seventeenth-century colonial discourse. She has published on early modern theatre in Cultural Studies, on Spinozism and slavery in the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, and on the ethics of affect in Foucault Studies.