Ginette Verstraete is currently Visiting Professor. She took early retirement in November 2024. She came to the VU as Professor/Chair of Comparative Arts and Media in 2006. At the VU she functioned as Head of the Department of Arts & Culture (Afdelingshoofd), Head of Education of A&C (Opleidingsdirecteur), Director of the Educational Committee A&C (OC voorzitter).

Prior to her position at the VU she held the Simone de Beauvoir Chair in Contemporary Intellectual History at University of Amsterdam (2000-2005) and was Assistant Professor of Literature and Culture at Maastricht University (1992-2001). She holds an MA 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, New York University, CEU Budapest, Open University (GB) and was invited as Jean Monnet Scholar at U of Florida

She sat on the Boards of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis and of the Research School for Media Studies.

She participated in numerous PhD jury committees in the Netherlands, and supervised various PhD's and postdocs.

At the VU she was founding Director of the MA in Design Cultures (2010), the MA in Comparative Arts and Media Studies (2010), and of the BA In Media, Kunst, Design en Architectuur (2013). She taught cultural and media theory

Key words: literary theory; media and cultural theory; mobility; space & place;

She published books and articles on Anglo-Irish literature (Joyce), German Romanticism, Europe's mobilities, cultural studies, and on media and space

Grants were endowed by Belgian-Irish National Program, Fulbright Foundation (several), SUNY/Buffalo, The Dutch Research Council/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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