Dr. Karel Vanhaesebrouck

Lecturer

Karel Vanhaesebrouck studied English and Dutch literature and linguistics at Ghent University (B), theatre studies at the universities of Antwerp (B) and Paris X (F) and cultural studies at the Catholic University of Leuven (B). He obtained his PhD in theatre studies and literature in 2007 from the universities of Paris X - Nanterre (F) and Leuven (B) with a study on French classicism, focusing on the way in which French performance practice in general and the representations - both historical and contemporary - of Racine's Britannicus in particular have been heavily influenced by the idea of authenticity. Since 2002 he has been working at the performing arts sections of the Brussels-based film and theatre school Rits (Erasmushogeschool Brussel), where he is now working as a post-doctoral researcher on the question of baroque and neobaroque and where he teaches courses on theatre history and performance studies. At the same time he is a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University where he teaches in the BA Arts and Culture and the MA Arts and heritage. He is a founding member of the editorial board of rekto:verso (www.rektoverso.be), a Flemish magazine for art criticism, and a guest professor of cultural journalism at the Artevelde University College in Ghent.

Keywords

FIELDS OF INTEREST: cultural history, theatre history, theatre studies, cultural studies, performance studies, artistic research, critical theory.
TOPICS: French 17th century theatre, canonization, baroque and neobaroque, cultural policy.