CURRICULUM VITAE Kurt Erik Frans VANHOUTTE, 1971° Ukkel (Brussels) Current adress: De Vrièrestraat 33a, 2000 Antwerp – Belgium. Phone: 0032497461428 Mail:
[email protected] EDUCATION and CAREER • MA in Literary Theory at the University of Brussels (1993) • MAres in Cultural Communication and Performance Theory at the University of Antwerp and the Humboldt University in Berlin (1995) • PhD from the University of Antwerp in 2001 – Fund for Scientific Research Flanders: ‘Theatre through the looking Glass of New Media: Walter Benjamin and Allegory’ • Post-doctoral Researcher University of Antwerp (2001-2003) - Fund for Scientific Research Flanders • Visiting Lecturer University of Ghent (2005-2007) • Visiting Lecturer Conservatory of Antwerp (2006-2007) • Professor in Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (2003- 2006) • Professor at the University of Antwerp in Belgium: 2006 – present TEACHING Kurt Vanhoutte is Professor of Performance Studies and Visual Arts Criticism at the University of Antwerp, where he helped to establish and currently coordinates a Master program in Film and Theatre Studies. Courses include Visual Criticism 1 (Master); Visual Criticism 2 (Master); Theatre and Intermedia (Master); The Culture of Modernity (Bachelor) and Theatre Studies: the Basics (Bachelor). CURRENT RESEARCH Kurt Vanhoutte is spokesperson for the Research Centre for Visual Poetics at the University of Antwerpen (www.visualpoetics.be). Vanhoutte’s basic line of research investigates processes of intermediality emerging under the cultural and technological conditions of modernity and late modernity. His interest more specifically concerns the effects of science and technologies on narrative and stylistic characteristics of performance art as well as the ensuing impact on contemporary notions of theatricality.