Inge Arteel is Professor of German Literature at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Her research focuses on post-1945 and contemporary literature and drama in German – with a particular interest in ‘experimental’ authors and playwrights (esp. Friederike Mayröcker and Elfriede Jelinek) –, intermedial and multilingual phenomena in theatre and performance, the radio play as genre and medium, and debates in gender studies. She is the author of two monographs on Mayröcker (Wehrhahn 2012; Aisthesis 2007) and co-editor of the Mayröcker Handbuch (with Alexandra Strohmaier, Metzler 2024). Together with Birgit Van Puymbroeck, she co-directs the FWO-funded project “Broadcast Biographies: Innovations in Genre and Medium, 1945–2000”.
Birgit Van Puymbroeck
Birgit Van Puymbroeck is Associate Professor in Literature in English and Research Methodology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research interests include modernist literature, print culture and audio drama. She is the author of Modernist Literature and European Identity (Routledge 2020) and co-editor of the Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals (Edinburgh 2023), which won the 2024 Prize of the European Society for Periodical Research. Together with Inge Arteel, she co-directs the FWO-funded project “Broadcast Biographies: Innovations in Genre and Medium, 1945–2020.” Her interests within the radio/audio field include audio drama and podcasts, radio life writing and the intersections between radio and periodicals.
Pim Verhulst
Pim Verhulst is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He specializes in radio drama and theatre from the British Isles, intermediality, adaptations and audio books, with additional expertise on music, film and television, as well as translation. In his work he combines different methodologies, ranging from audionarratology, sound studies and archival research to genetic criticism. He has primarily published on Samuel Beckett, but also on James Joyce, Dylan Thomas, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Caryl Churchill, Andrew Sachs and Margaret Atwood. In 2014 he obtained a PhD in English Literature from the University of Antwerp, where he taught various courses, including one on radio drama. From 2022-2025 he was a postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the University of Oxford, on a project funded by the UKRI. He is the recipient of an MLA Prize for Bibliographical or Archival Scholarship and was recently awarded a Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Union.
Lotte Nijsten
Lotte Nijsten (b. 1994) is a sound artist, field recordist, and radio producer. She holds a master’s degree in Language and Literature from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and graduated from the Radio department at RITCS in 2020, where she also obtained a pedagogical degree in 2022. Lotte is a board member of Klankverbond, the Flemish professional association for audiomakers. She is also a member of Landforms, the sound collective she co-founded with sound artist and composer Gillis Van Der Wee. Together, they create radio documentaries, electro acoustic compositions and sound installations that re-imagine spaces through sound. Their works have been presented on radio stations, and at festivals, museums, and theaters in Belgium and abroad. Lotte and Gillis have received several nominatons and awards, including Best Radio Fiction (Prix Europa, nomination 2020) and the Prix Découvertes Pierre Schaeffer (Phonurgia Nova, 2022). As a PhD researcher at VUB and RITCS (FWO fellowship; supervised by prof. dr. Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans and prof. dr. Free De Backer), Lotte’s current artistic research focuses on empathy-building with nature, exploring how ecological sound art can reconnect listeners with the marine environment of the Scheldt Estuary.
Iana Nikitenko
Iana Nikitenko is a doctoral fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, working on the FWO-funded project “Broadcast Biographies: Innovations in Genre and Medium (1945–2020)” (supervised by prof. dr. Inge Arteel and prof. dr. Birgit Van Puymbroeck). She also serves as an editorial assistant at RadioDoc Review. In 2022, she earned an Erasmus Mundus International Master’s in Children’s Literature, Media and Culture from the University of Glasgow (UK), in collaboration with Aarhus University (Denmark), Tilburg University (Netherlands), and the University of Wrocław (Poland). Her master’s thesis examined representations of the traumatic Soviet past in biographical graphic narratives. Her research interests include literary and media studies, radio studies, life writing, and transmedia storytelling.
Kim Liesa Wolgast
Kim Liesa Wolgast holds a BA in Archaeology: Heritage & Society from the University of Leiden and a MA in German Literature and Intermediality Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She completed a “Talent for Research” trajectory within the research project Broadcast Biographies: Innovations in Genre and Medium (1945–2020). In her master’s thesis, she presents a feminist audio-narratological analysis of Marlene Streeruwitz’s radio play Maria. (2015), for which she was awarded the Jeanne Lonnoy Award of Encouragement for Literary Studies. Her areas of interest include feminist literary criticism, (neo)-avant-garde and experimental aesthetics and narratives, intermediality, audio drama, as well as post-memory and life writings. She is currently preparing a PhD application on feminist sound art in contemporary Germanophone radio plays.
