Inge Arteel

Inge Arteel is Full Professor of German Literature at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She studied German and English Philology at Ghent University and took courses in Austrian Literature at Vienna University. She has been working at VUB since 1999, first as an FWO PhD candidate and then as a postdoctoral research fellow of the FWO. Her research topics include:

• contemporary Austrian literature (esp. Mayröcker, Jelinek, and other experimental women authors)
• Austrian and German theatre
• literary theory, gender theory, intersectionality
• intermediality and the radio play

She is the author of two monographs on Friederike Mayröcker (Wehrhahn 2012; Aisthesis 2007) and co-editor of the Mayröcker Handbuch (with Alexandra Strohmaier, Metzler 2025). Recent contributions and co-edited volumes address multilingual experiments in the Dutch and Flemish performance scene, cultural transfer and genre adaptation in George Tabori’s radio plays, the theatre of director Susanne Kennedy, choric speaking in radio plays by Ludwig Harig and Ernst Jandl & Mayröcker, and experimental post-1945 radio plays. Inge Arteel is head of the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies (LIST) at the VUB, and member of the FWO Cult2 project panel. Since 2025 she chairs the Flemish association for literary studies VAL. Together with Cornelis van der Haven, Janine Hauthal and Bram Van Oostveldt she chairs the UGent-VUB research group THALIA. She represents VUB on the steering committee of the Vlaams Talenplatform. She regularly translates work by Elfriede Jelinek into Dutch (Querido). Sporadically she contributes reviews to the review website De Reactor.