Tim Vergeer is a PhD Researcher at Leiden University, Centre for the Arts in Society. In 2017, he received NWO funding (PhDs in the Humanities) for his PhD project on the popularity of the Spanish comedia nueva in the seventeenth-century Low Countries, combining concepts from transfer studies, the history of emotions, and theatre studies. Together with dr. Olga van Marion, he won the golden medal of scientific excellence of Teylers Tweede Genootschap in Haarlem in 2018. Tim has published on the combination of emotions and songs in theatre, emotions and tableaux vivants in theatre, and emotions and same-gender passions in theatre.