Janine Hauthal

After working as research assistant and assistant professor at the universities of Giessen and Wuppertal, she came to the VUB in 2014 as a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO, 2014 – 2020). From 2016 to 2020, she was also part-time research professor in the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at VUB. She is a member of the VUB/UGent alliance research groups THALIA (Interplay of Theatre, Literature and Media in Performance) and SEL – (Studiecentrum Experimentele Literatuur).

Her FWO-funded postdoctoral research projects have focussed on Europe in the British literary imagination and in Anglophone settler cultures. From 2021 onwards, she will supervise the FWO-funded junior research project “Self-Reflexivity and Generic Change in 21st-Century Black British Women’s Literature”. Further research interests include inter-/transmedial and cultural narratology, genre theory and metareference, British drama since the 1990s, contemporary British and postcolonial literatures, and postdramatic theatre. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Modern Drama, English Text Construction, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, and Journal of Postcolonial Writing as well as with Brill, De Gruyter, Ohio State UP, Rodopi, and Routledge.

Janine Hauthal is chair of the VUB research group CLIC – Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, and, since 2016, she serves as one of the founding editors of JLIC – Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, an online journal with international peer-review system (with Mathias Meert, Ann Peters, Andrea Penso, and Hannah Van Hove).