Dr Pieter Verstraete is a theater scholar, based in Berlin. He holds a PhD degree in the Humanities from the Department of Theater Studies and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis of the University of Amsterdam. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Arts, Culture and Media of the University of Groningen. His main research interests lies in contemporary (music) theatre, socio-political, activist forms of performance, exile and post-migration with a regional focus on Turkey. He also works as a freelance theatre and cultural critic as well as an advisor to the Arts Council in the Netherlands.
