Ginette Verstraete is currently Visiting Professor. She took early retirement in November 2024. She came to the VU as Professor/Chair of Comparative Arts and Media in 2006. At the VU she functioned as Head of the Department of Arts & Culture (Afdelingshoofd), Head of Education of A&C (Opleidingsdirecteur), Director of the Educational Committee A&C (OC voorzitter).
Prior to her position at the VU she held the Simone de Beauvoir Chair in Contemporary Intellectual History at University of Amsterdam (2000-2005) and was Assistant Professor of Literature and Culture at Maastricht University (1992-2001). She holds an MA in English and Dutch from Antwerp University, an MA in Anglo-Irish Studies from UC Dublin, and a PhD in CompLit from SUNY/Buffalo.
She was Visiting Prof/Scholar at UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, New York University, CEU Budapest, Open University (GB) and was invited as Jean Monnet Scholar at U of Florida
She sat on the Boards of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis and of the Research School for Media Studies.
She participated in numerous PhD jury committees in the Netherlands, and supervised various PhD's and postdocs.
