Chiel Kattenbelt has been Associate Professor in Media Comparison and  
Intermediality at Utrecht University since 1991. He teaches in the BA  
program Theatre, Film and Television Studies, in the MA programs  
Theatre Studies and New Media and Digital Culture and in the Research  
MA program Media and Performance Studies. He is a member of the Board  
of Examiners within the Department of Media and Culture Studies and  
chairs both the program committee of the BA Theatre, Film and  
Television Studies and the admission committee of the MA Theatre  
Studies, Film and Television Studies and New Media and Digital Culture.

Between 2002 till 2006 he was also associate professor at the Theatre  
Academy Maastricht (Zuyd University), where he led an  
interdisciplinary research program on new theatricality with  
particular emphasis on the public sphere, language and technology. In  
2004 he was the visiting professor for intermediality and media  
theory at the Department for Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Vienna  
University.

He has been co-convener of the international research working group  
Intermediality in Theatre and Performance under auspices of the  
International Federation for Theatre Research since 1998. He is co- 
editor of E-view, an online journal on theatre, film, television and  
digital media, and Theater Topics, a series on performing arts  
published by Amsterdam University Press. In teaching as well as  
research, his fields of interest are theatre and media theory, media  
comparison and intermediality, and aesthetics and semiotics.