Jan Baetens (b. 1957) is Full Professor at the University of Leuven (Belgium), where he teaches the cultural studies program (www.culturelestudies.be).
He is the founding editor or coeditor of the literary journals conséquences (1983-1991), Formules (since 1997), FPC/Formes poétiques contemporaines (since 2002), the bilingual peer-reviewed academic e-journal Image (&) Narrative (since 1999: www.imageandnarrative.net) and the bilingual online art magazine PLACE ( https://www.place-plateforme.com/ ).
He is the (co)author and/or co(editor) of more than fifty volumes and special issues, among which:
The Graphic Novel. An Introduction (with Hugo Frey), New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
A voix haute. Poésie et lecture publique. Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2016. English translation: Poetry Performed, Louisiana University at Lafayette Press, 2021
The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel, coedited with Hugo Frey and Steve Tabachnick. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
The Film Photonovel, Austin, TX: Texas University Press, 2019
Rebuilding Storyworlds, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020,
For an overview of his academic production, see:
http://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00004749
As a poet, he has published twenty books of poetry (all in French), some of them in collaboration with visual artists such as Olivier Deprez, Milan Chlumsky and Sébastien Conard. In 2007, he has been awarded the « Prix triannuel de poésie de la Communauté française de Belgique ».
For a full overview of his poetic production, see:
Literature’s Elsewheres: On the Necessity of Radical Literary Practices
Photographie Contemporaine et Anthropocène
The Unification of the Arts: A Framework for Understanding What the Arts Share and Why
Contemporary Photography in France: Between Theory and Practice
Alain Robbe-Grillet: L’Aventure du Nouveau Roman
Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy
La bande dessinée en France à la Belle époque. 1880–1914
The Topographic Imaginary: Attending to Place in Contemporary French Photography
Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany
Deserted Devices and Wasted Fences: Everyday Technologies in Extreme Circumstances
Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall Mcluhan
Albert Robida: De la Satire À L’Anticipation
Rereading Abstract Expressionism: Clement Greenberg and the Cold War
Brecha De Género en el Audiovisual Español (The Gender Gap in Spanish Audiovisual Production)
Malgré La Ligne Droite : L’Écriture Américaine de Josef Albers
Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures
Gomes Casseres Y Su Banana Series (1907–1920): Imaginación Fotográfica en Postales de Costa Rica [Gomes Casseres and his Banana Series (1907–1920): The Photographic Imaginary of Costa Rica Postcards]
Time, Media, and Visuality in Post-Revolutionary France
Magritte et les Philosophes [Magritte and the Philosophers]
Des Étoiles Nouvelles: Quand la Littérature Découvre le Monde
The Photoromance: A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture
La Conversation Transatlantique: Les échanges Franco-Américains en Poésie Depuis 1968
Les troubles du récit: pour une nouvelle approche des processus narratifs
Peanuts minus Schulz: Distributed Labor as a Compositional Practice/Le travail distribué comme pratique organisationnelle
En cas de malheur de Simenon à Autant-La ra (1956–1958). Essai de génétique scénaristique
A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century
Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art
Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species
Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity
Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi by Timothy C. Campbell. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2006. 209 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8166-4441-1; 0-8166-4422-1
remixthebook by Mark Amerika. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2011. 336 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN 978-0-8166-7614-9; ISBN 978-0-8166-7615-6
The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film by Domietta Torlasco. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2013. 160 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-8166-8109-9; ISBN: 978-0-8166-8110-5
Memory in Motion: Archives, Technology and the Social
Seeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture edited by Patricia Johnston. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2006. 317 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-520-24187-8; ISBN: 0-520-24188-6
North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space by Jody Berland. Duke Univ. Press, Durham, NC, U.S.A., 2009. 408 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 978-0822343066
The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality by Nicholas Mirzoeff. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, U.S.A., 2011. 408 pp., illus. Hardcover, Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4895-5; ISBN: 978-0822349181
EPISODE NOTES (click through for transcript and more)
Art critic and curator Annick Bureaud and curator and art historian Natalia Kolodzei discuss COSMOS and CHAOS in the context of their contributions to the February 2021 issue of Leonardo journal on Space Art, a special publication in English and Russian for the CYFEST-13 Media Art Festival. Jan Baetens reviews the new book Peanuts Minus Schultz by Ilan Manouach.
EPISODE NOTES (click through for transcript and more)
Art critic and curator Annick Bureaud and curator and art historian Natalia Kolodzei discuss COSMOS and CHAOS in the context of their contributions to the February 2021 issue of Leonardo journal on Space Art, a special publication in English and Russian for the CYFEST-13 Media Art Festival. Jan Baetens reviews the new book Peanuts Minus Schultz by Ilan Manouach.
