| School: School of Communication & Design |
| Department: Professional Communication |
| Position: Lecturer |
| Location: RMIT Saigon South |
| Email: nele.lenze@rmit.edu.vn |
Nele Lenze’s academic research focuses on participation and online culture in the Gulf. This includes local and migrant communities. Nele held positions at the National University of Singapore, the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait and the London School of Economics. She co-edited four academic books on media, participation culture and the Middle East and wrote a monograph.
PhD in Middle Eastern Studies and Media Studies from the University of Oslo and obtained her master’s in Arabic literature from Freie University Berlin.
Digital Media, Participation Culture, Censorship, Climate Change, Migration, Social Media, Mobile Media
- She co-edited Converging Regions: Global Perspectives on Asia and the Middle East (2014) with Charlotte Schriwer as well as The Arab Uprisings: Catalysts, Dynamics, and Trajectories (2014) with Fahed Al-Sumait and Michael Hudson, Media in the Middle East: Activism, Politics, and Culture (2017) with Charlotte Schriwer and Zubaidah Abdul Jalil.
- My monograph Politics and Digital Literature in the Middle East. Perspectives on Online Text and Context was published with Palgrave (2018). Another edited volume co-edited with Charlotte Schriwer is Participation Culture in the Gulf: Networks, Politics and Identity (2018).
- Research Fellowship, Kuwait Programme, London School of Economics (2019)
- Research and Conference Travel Grant, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore (2017)
- Research and Conference Travel Grant, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore (2016)
- Research and Conference Travel Grant, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore (2013-2015)
- Graduate Research Travel Grant, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, annually. (2009-2012)
- PhD Scholarship, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo Department (2009-2011)
- Grant for Field Research, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo Department (2009)
Nele held positions at the National University of Singapore, the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait and the London School of Economics.