Pieter Verstraete is tenured Assistant Professor in Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Groningen. He is Managing Editor of the European Journal of Theatre and Performance (EJTP), and a member of EASTAP’s ExComm. He is also the Chair of the BeNeLux Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association. Publications include various works on sound and voice in Performance Research (2010), Theatre Noise (CSP 2011), The Legacy of Opera (Brill 2013), Disembodied Voice (Alexander Verlag 2015), and the Journal of Sonic Studies (2017). His texts on Turkey were published by the Jahrbuch Türkisch-Deutsche Studien (V&R Unipress 2014), Praksis (2016), Performance Matters(2018), TRI (2019), Documenta (2021), Performance Research (2022), ITI (2023), Open Research Europe (2023) and Red Thread Journal (2023). He is co-editor of Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities (CSP 2009), Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality (Ashgate/Routledge 2014), and Theatre, Performance and Commemoration: Staging Crisis, Memory and Nationhood (Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama 2023). He co-edited the fourth special Essay section on “Activism and Spectatorship” of EJTP with Agata Łuksza, and is currently preparing an issue on “Exile and Nationalism” for EJTP with Yana Meerzon. For more info, please visit: https://pieterverstraete.com/, and https://pieterverstraete.academia.edu/.