Biography
Susanne Janssen is Full Professor of Sociology of Media and Culture, Research Director of the Department of Media and Communication, and Academic Director of the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2021, she was appointed a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Her research and teaching activities lie in the fields of cultural sociology, media and communications research, and the sociology of the arts and literature. Susanne Janssen has published widely on the role of cultural mediators (e.g., critics, journalists, curators, editors, marketers) in the creation, dissemination and valuation of literature, music and other art forms; changes, continuities and cross-national differences in the classification of culture; the social and cultural significance of popular music heritage; and processes, structures and impacts of cultural globalization. Her current research projects focus on the consequences of increased diversity and digitalization for agents, institutions, structures, processes and practices in the fields of media, culture, education, and politics.
Susanne Janssen currently leads a large-scale Horizon 2020 research project, entitled INVENT: European Inventory of Societal Values of Culture as a Basis for Inclusive Cultural Policies in the Globalizing World. This EU funded international collaborative project runs from 2020-2024 and involves leading scholars and research institutions based in nine different countries. Previously, Janssen was awarded the prestigious VICI grant (2003) for her Cultural Classification Systems in Transition project from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). From 2010 to 2014, she directed another large-scale international collaborative research project: Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity which was funded as part of the HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Dynamics: Inheritance and Identity. Janssen also received several other major project grants, including an Erasmus Research Excellence grant (REI), four NWO PhD in the Humanities grants, a HERA Knowledge Exchange grant, and funding from the Erasmus Initiative Vital Cities and Citizens. In addition, she is part of the research team of the NWO funded Creative Industries-Smart Culture project on Sustainable Live Music Ecologies (POPLIVE). In the past twelve years, eighteen PhD candidates have successfully completed their PhD thesis under Janssen’s supervision. Currently, she (co-)supervises fourteen PhD projects (cf. her full CV).
Susanne Janssen is the founding chair of the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam, which she headed from its inception in 2008 until 2020. She is the founding co-director of the MA in Media Studies and the research master in the Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts (top-rated programme 2014, 2016 and 2017) and the founding Dean of the International Bachelor in Communication and Media (IBCoM) which was awarded the NVAO Distinctive Quality Feature for Internationalisation and the European Certificate for Quality in Programme Internationalisation (2014; re-accredited in 2019).
She is also the founding academic director of ERMeCC, the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (2008). ERMeCC is currently home to more than fifty researchers and over fifty PhD students from a variety of international and disciplinary backgrounds, and has grown into one of the largest research groups focusing on the social dimensions of media, culture and the arts worldwide.
Susanne Janssen performed manifold executive and advisory services in academia and the cultural sector, including serving as member of the national Council for Culture in the Netherlands, chair-elect of the European Research Network for the Sociology of the Arts (ESA), member founding committee of the Netherlands-Flemish Communication Association (NEFCA), and member of the NWO Cultural Dynamics programme. From 2010-2012, Janssen was co-editor-in-chief of Poetics, the premier journal for empirical research on culture, media and the arts and a leading journal in sociology, for which she presently serves as an advisory editor. Current memberships include the academic executive board of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) Centre for the Governance of Migration and Diversity, the National Panel for Quality and Relevance in the Humanities, the international editorial advisory boards of Sociologie de l’Art and the International Journal of Music Business Research, and the advisory boards of the International Association for Popular Music (IASPM) and the national Research School for Media Studies (RMeS). Janssen was appointed an Honorary Professor (2010-2016) in the Centre for Cultural Research at Griffith University, Australia, a member of the Royal Dutch Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) in 2015, and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2021.
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Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- s.janssen@eshcc.eur.nl
- Room
- M8-06
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Susanne Janssen & Marc Verboord (2022) - Cultuur van en voor iedereen?: Culturele diversiteit en cultuurparticipatie in de migratiesamenleving - [link]
- Semi Purhonen, Ossi Sirrka, Sara Sivonen, Riie Heikkila, Susanne Janssen & Marc Verboord (2022) - What does culture mean to Europeans?: Mapping the multiplicity of understandings of culture within and across European societies - [link]
- Sylvia Maria Holla & Susanne Janssen (2022) - Opkomen voor cultuur in turbulente tijden: Online petities en burgerinitiatieven voor cultuur tijdens Covid-19
- Nete Kristensen, Franziska Marquart, Unni From, Susanne Janssen, Marc Verboord & Universidad de Barcelona (2021) - Europeans’ Engagement in Digital Cultural Practices.
- Tally Katz-Gerro, Susanne Janssen, Neta Yodovich, Marc Verboord & Joan Llonch Andreu (2021) - Cultural Cosmopolitanism in Diverse Contexts: Mapping and Comparing Cultural Cosmopolitanism across European Countries and Localities
- Susanne Janssen, Zeljka Zdravković, Frederic Lebaron, Jorg Rossel & Lucas Pereira (2021) - Who Supports or Opposes Public Funding of Culture? Comparing the Social Correlates of People’s Attitudes towards Public Funding of Culture across Europe
- Geffen Ben David, Susanne Janssen, Jinju Kim, Jordi Lopez Sintas, Franziska Marquart, Ratko Nikolic, Lucas Pereira, Ossi Sirrka, Sebastian Weingartner, Neta Yodovich & Zeljka Zdravković (2021) - Talking about culture on Twitter.: A comparative analysis of culture-related topics in nine European countries in 2019 and 2020. - [link]
- Bartosz G. Żerebecki, Suzanna J. Opree, Joep Hofhuis & Susanne Janssen (2021) - Can TV shows promote acceptance of sexual and ethnic minorities? A literature review of television effects on diversity attitudes - Sociology Compass, 15 (8), 1-16 - doi: 10.1111/soc4.12906 - [link]
- Bartosz Zerebecki, Suzanna Opree, Joep Hofhuis & Susanne Janssen (2021) - What attracts Polish youth viewers to entertainment TV shows?: Exploring (dis)similarity with characters, onscreen diversity, and the possibility for stereotype change.
- Bartosz Zerebecki, Suzanna Opree, Joep Hofhuis & Susanne Janssen (2021) - What attracts Polish youth viewers to entertainment TV shows?
- Bartosz Zerebecki, Suzanna Opree, Joep Hofhuis & Susanne Janssen (2021) - What attracts Polish youth viewers to entertainment TV shows? - [link]
- Marc Verboord, Rian Koreman & Susanne Janssen (2021) - Where to look next for a shot of culture? Repertoires of cultural information production and consumption on the internet. - doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-7474-0_11 - [link]
- Qiong Gong, Marc Verboord & Susanne Janssen (2020) - Cross-media usage repertoires and their political impacts: The case of China - International Journal of Communication (online), 14, 3799-3818 - [link]
- Marc Verboord, Rian Koreman & Susanne Janssen (2018) - Repertoires of Cultural Information Production and Consumption
- Karen Klijnhout & Susanne Janssen (2018) - Competing conceptions of city culture and cultural diversity. A four-city comparison of cultural politics in the Netherlands
- Zouhair Hammana, Susanne Janssen & Marc Verboord (2018) - Cosmopolitan opennes in classroom encounters with the Other
- Amanda Brandellero, Marc Verboord & Susanne Janssen (2018) - ‘Do you remember rock ‘n’ roll radio?’ How audiences talk about music-related personal memories, preferences, and localities.
- Marc Verboord & Susanne Janssen (2018) - Obituary Kees van Rees (1942-2018) - Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts, 70 (October), 1-3 - doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2018.10.004 - [link]
- Arno van der Hoeven, Susanne Janssen & Simone Driessen (2017) - Articulations of identity and distinction: The meanings of language in Dutch popular music
- BG (Bartosz) Zerebecki, SJ (Suzanna) Opree, J (Joep) Hofhuis & MSSE (Susanne) Janssen (2021) - What attracts Polish youth viewers to entertainment TV shows? Exploring (dis)similarity with characters, onscreen diversity, and the possibility for stereotype change.
- Bartosz Zerebecki, Suzanna Opree, Joep Hofhuis & Susanne Janssen (2021) - What attracts Polish youth viewers to entertainment TV shows?
- Rian Koreman, Marc Verboord & Susanne Janssen (2020) - Analysing professional and amateur music reviews through topic modelling
- Susanne Janssen (2018) - Keynote lecture: The Art of Comparison: Features and Findings of Comparative Research in Cultural Journalism
- Susanne Janssen (2018) - Invited Lecture. Critical Authority and Taste in the Contemporary Literary Field
- A Bennett & Susanne Janssen (2016) - Popular Music and Society (Journal)
- Susanne Janssen (2014) - Invited presentation on 'Cultural Classifications in Transition' Project
- Amanda Brandellero, Susanne Janssen, S Cohen & L Roberts (2014) - International Journal of Heritage Studies (Journal)
- Susanne Janssen (2013) - Recent Changes in the Valuation of Popular Music in Cross-National Perspective
- Susanne Janssen (2013) - The Making of Literary Careers in Comparative Perspective
Research Traineeship
- Level
- MA-1
- Year Level
- MA-1
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CS5008
Research Master Seminar I
- Level
- MA-1
- Year Level
- MA-1
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CS5016
Master Thesis
- Level
- MA-2
- Year Level
- MA-2
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CS5050