Jan Baetens is Full Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the KULeuven. His main research interests and areas of expertise include: literary theory (‘constrained writing’, theory and criticism of French poetry), the relations between literature and new media, photography and the relations between word and image, cultural studies, non-canonical literature (comics, graphic novel, novelization and photonovella), semiotics (visual analysis).

Full CV and list of publications available (Dutch and English) here.