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Personal profile
Personal information
Ginette Verstraete came to the VU as Professor of Comparative Arts and Media in 2006. Prior to that she held the Simone de Beauvoir Chair in Contemporary Intellectual History at UvA and was Assistant Professor of Literature and Culture at Maastricht University. She holds a BA in English and Dutch from Antwerp University, an MA in Anglo-Irish Studies from UC Dublin, and a PhD in CompLit from SUNY/Buffalo.
She was Visiting Prof/Scholar at UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, NYU, CEU Budapest, Open University (GB) and was invited as Jean Monnet Scholar at U of Florida
She sits on the Boards of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis and of the Research School for Media Studies
Teaching
At the VU she participates in the BA Media, Art, Design & Archit., in the MA Comparative Arts and Media Studies and in the Humanities Research MA. She teaches courses on Visual Analysis, Media & Cultural Theory, Methodologies, Reading Concepts of Intermediality, Critical Issues in the Cultural Industries. She supervises various BA and MA theses.
Research
Key words: media and cultural theory; mobility; space & place; location-based media
Current research explores the significance of participatory urbanism in Western Europe, from 1960s to the current moment and focuses on the role that media, art and design have played in this. Several scholars have noticed the growing importance of participation in various fields but so far no comprehensive study exists that traces the shifts in meaning and practice in exemplary urban projects from the perspective of media, art and design, while paying attention to the larger socio-political transitions. Part of this research is funded by an NWO Grant Smart Culture (2017-20) in a consortium with Design Academy Eindhoven and Studio Ester van de Wiel
Previous research took place in two AHRC-NWO Research Networks (hosted by Universities of London and Amsterdam), one on Underground Cultures; the other on Cities and Visual Interruptions
Grants
Grants were endowed by Belgian-Irish National Program, Fulbright Foundation (several), SUNY/Buffalo, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research/NWO (several), European Science Foundation, German Federal Cultural Foundation, Fonds voor Beeldende Kunst, VU-UvA Creative Industries (several), KNAW-Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies.
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Research Output 2006 2019
Chewing Gum and Graffiti: Aestheticized City Rhetoric in Post-2008 Athens
Verstraete, G. E. E. & Ampatzidou, C., Jan 2019, Visualizing the Street: New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City. Amsterdam University Press, p. 187 206 p. (Cities and Cultures)Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
Transnational Material Politics: Constructions of Dutch Design, 1970-2012
Ozório de Almeida Meroz, J., 2018, 288 p.Research output: PhD Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research VU, graduation VU › Academic
“Participatie, kunst en design: Het Kolenspoor in Genk.”
Verstraete, G. E. E. & Huybrechts, L., 2017, In : Streven. 54.11, December 2017, p. 984-993Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Professional
“’Doe het zelf’ in de stad: Over burgerparticipatie, politiek en esthetiek.”
Verstraete, G. E. E., 2017, In : Streven. 84.10, November 2017, p. 915-926Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Professional
It’s about Time. Disappearing Images and Stories in Snapchat
Verstraete, G. E. E., 2016, In : Image & Narrative : online magazine of the visual narrative. 17, 4, p. 104-113Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Activities 2009 2009
European Journal of Cultural Studies (Journal)
Verstraete, G. E. E. (Member of editorial board), A. Imre (Member of editorial board)Activity: Peer review and Editorial work › Editorial work › Academic
Introduction & Conclusion
Blom, I. L. (Speaker), Verstraete, G. E. E. (Speaker)Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic