Jan Baetens#
| Membership Number: | 3422 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/u0004749 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996 - present Assistant (PT), Associate (PF), Professor (FT), and Full Professor (since 2009) at KU Leuven
- 1997 - 2003 Assistant professor Maastricht University (PT)
- 1989 - 1997 assistant professor and associate professor (1994) Handelshogeschool Antwerp (now Thomas More College)
- 1987 - 1988 assistant professor VLEKHO Brussels (translation program, French)
- 1985 - 1987 senior researcher at the Belgian NSF (chargé de recherches au FNRS belge)
- 1981 - 1985 junior researcher at the Belgian NSF (aspirant au FNRS belge)
- 1980 - 1981 teaching assistant KU Leuven (French linguistics)
Fields of Scholarship
- Literary theory (with a strong emphasis on constrained writing)
- Cultural studies (with a strong emphasis on the poetics of "minor genres": comics, graphic novel, novelization, and photonovel)
- Photography theory (with a strong emphasis on photographic illustrations of literature)
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Winner of the « prix triennal de poésie de la communauté Française de Belgique » for the collection Cent fois sur le métier (2004)
- 2007 - 2008 Titulaire de la chaire Francqui au titre belge (Fucam/UCL) en 2007-2008 dans le domaine « Culture et communication »
- 2012 Speaker of the "Annual History of Photography lecture”, Saint-Andrews University, 7 March, 2012
