Dinah Wouters currently works as a lecturer in religious studies at Utrecht University and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Groningen and the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome. She holds a PhD in medieval Latin literature from Ghent University, and previously did a postdoc project on early modern biblical drama. Her current project studies colonial paradigms and practices of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. How did intellectuals, pedagogues, policymakers and pamphlet-writers engage with biblical and classical knowledge in developing and debating their own ideas on trade, colonialism, slavery, and empire? (https://www.knir.it/nl/onderzoeksproject/settler-colonial-paradigms/) Dinah is also a co-founder and the coordinator of the international research network for the study of Latin RELICS, as well as an editor of the associated journal JOLCEL (Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures).