Email: suzannekooloos@gmail.com
Website: https://www.huizingainstituut.nl/people/suzanne-kooloos-ma/

Research interests
Early modern period, visual satire, material culture, object-based research, financial speculation

Associated project to T&E
My PhD project, titled: Bubble Objects : Producing  the Dutch Stock Market Crisis of 1720.

Publications
Forthcoming: Beron, Michael, Jakob Bogatzki, Toon Fibbe, Suzanne Kooloos, and Lisa-Frederike Seidler. “Conceptualising Theatre through the Lens of Economy and/or Rethinking Economy through the Lens of Theatre.” (German Association for Theatre Studies

Kooloos, Suzanne. “Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid.” In 100 jaar theatercollectie. 2025. 

Kooloos, Suzanne. “Chinese Bubble Plates’, in Connecting Objects.” Rijksmuseum website. 2022. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/stories/connecting-objects/story/chinese-bubble-plates

Kooloos, Suzanne. “Magic Lanterns and Raree Shows: Metaphors of Financial Speculation during the Bubbles of 1720.” Early Popular Visual Culture 20.4 (2022): 368-387.

Short bio
Suzanne Kooloos is an external PhD candidate in Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She is researching the intertwinement of theatre and financial speculation in the early modern period, analysing both paper and decorative art objects. Her research was supported by the HAB in Wolfenbüttel, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Mellon Fellowship), IEG in Mainz and the FU Berlin (Cultuurfondsbeurs).