University of Groningen (2019-2023)

• BA core module, “Mediality to Intermediality” (twice)
• BA core module, “Introduction to Audio-Visual Arts B” (four times)
• BA core module, “Narrativity Across Media”
• BA core module, “Theatre I: Analysis, Theory and History” (three times)
• BA core module, “Theatre II: History and Theory”
• BA honours college module, “Reading Art: What is Art Good For?”
• MA core module, “Music, Theatre, Sound” (six times)
• MA core module, “Performance Mediality and Materiality”
• MA core module, “Musical Theatre: Popular Culture Approaches to Song, Stage and Screen”
• MA core module, “Applied Cultural Criticism” (three times)
• MA elective module, “Adaptation Theory and Practice”
• Guest lecture in ReMA module, “Cultural Leadership II”
• Guest lectures in BA module “Artivism” and the “Acting Up: Staging Urban Protest” project at University College Groningen (three times)
• Role of Chair of Programme Commity (PC/OC)

University of Amsterdam (2018-2019)

• BA core module, “Bachelorscriptie Theaterwetenschap” (twice; thesis writing skills)
• BA elective module, “Muziektheater Actueel” (Contemporary Music Theatre)
• BA core module, “Onderzoeksvaardigheden” (Research Skills)
• BA core module, “Performance Analyse”
• BA core module, “Wetenschapsfilosofie” (Philosophy of Science; both for Theatre and Arts)
• BA Study Trip Theatre Studies
• Guest lectures in MA module, “Art and Activism”, invited by Prof. Dr. Mia Lerm-Hayes

Bilkent University Ankara (2017)

• BA core module, “Introduction to Art and Culture I”

Hacettepe University Ankara (2015-2016)

• BA core module, “American Cultural Concepts I”
• BA core module, “American Cultural Concepts II”
• BA core module, “Introduction to Literature I”
• BA core module, “Introduction to Film Studies” (twice)
• BA core module, “American Drama”
• BA elective module, “Major American Dramatists”
• BA elective module, “Philosophy and Literature”
• BA elective module, “Biblical Mythology”

Atılım University Ankara (2014-2015)

• BA core module, “Introduction to Communication”
• BA elective module, “Seminar in Public Relations”

Bilkent University Ankara (Summer 2014)

• BA elective module, “Film Theory and Criticism”

Istanbul Bilgi University (2014)

• Guest lecture in Performance Management on Community and Public Spaces
• 10-Day Workshop, “Urban Theatre: Sound, Ecology and New Narratives”

Istanbul Aydın University (2013)

• Guest lectures in MA module, “Theories of Theatre”, invited by Dr. Esra Almas

 University of Exeter (2010-2012)

• BA core module, “Pre-texts and Contexts of Drama 2” (twice)
• BA elective module, “Digital Theatre Crafts – Radio Drama” (twice)
• BA core module, “Practical Essay” (twice)
• BA core module, “Theatre Praxis”
• BA elective module, “Theatre for the Ears”
• MA core module, “Research Preparation and Writing Skills”
• MA core module, “Cultural Adaptation”
• BA elective module, “Dissertation”

Radboud University Nijmegen (2008-2009)

• BA core module, “Music Analysis”
• BA core module, “Repertoire”
• BA elective module, “Romeo & Juliet across the Arts”

University of Amsterdam (2005-2010)

• BA elective module, “Audio Theatre and Aurality in Music Theatre”
• BA elective module, “Sound and Aurality in Theatre”
• MA core module, “Concepts in Music Theatre”
• BA elective module, “Interdisciplinarity in Musical Theatre”

Pieter Verstraete's main research interests are in contemporary (music) theatre, aurality and voice studies, socio-political and activist forms of performance, post-migration and exile, memory and commemoration. His research has also a regional focus on Turkey and the Kurdish question through the arts.

Dr. Pieter Verstraete is a (music) theatre scholar, dramaturg, cultural critic and policy advisor. He is currently a tenured Senior Lecturer (UD1) at the Arts, Culture and Media department of the University of Groningen. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Theatre and Performance (EJTP), elected ExCom member of EASTAP, and the current Chair of the MCAA Benelux Chapter.

From September 2020 until March 2023, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft of the Freie Universität Berlin as PI of the ExiLives project. He has frequently given expert advise to Arts Councils in the Netherlands and Flanders on developments in music theatre and opera.

His expertise splits into two main research directions: On the one hand, he engage critically with European theatre and performance traditions that experiment with sound, voice and music, often in interactive and intermedial ways, to discuss developments in multimodal spectatorship and aurality (auditory imagination). On the other hand, he focuses on political and social issues in the theatre with a specific interest in Turkish and Kurdish artists, which include debates on intercultural community, diaspora, (post)migration, exile, decoloniality, censorship, activism, resilience, (neo)nationalism, and performative democracy.

He is co-editor of books: 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 is currently working on two edited volumes: Performing Resilience: Intersectionality and Agonistic Solidarity for Another Turkey (contracted with Routledge, forthcoming 2026), and Imagining an Alternative Turkey: Mobilizing Resistance, Publics, Affects (contracted with Palgrave, forthcoming 2026).