Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Professor (KNAW), 2005-2011.
Based at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam.

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Areas of interest range from biblical and classical antiquity to 17th century and contemporary art and modern literature, feminism and migratory culture. Her many publications include A Mieke Bal Reader (2006), Travelling Concepts in the Humanities (2002) and Narratology (4th edition 2017).

 

Her view of interdisciplinary analysis in the Humanities and Social Sciences is expressed in the profile of what she has termed “cultural analysis”, the basis of ASCA. See the video clip on the right side of this page, where I explain the approach.

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Mieke is also a video artist, her internationally exhibited documentaries on migration include Separations, State of Suspension, Becoming Vera and the installation Nothing is Missing and are part of the Cinema Suitcase collective. With Michelle Williams Gamaker she made the feature film A Long History of Madness, a theoretical fiction about madness, and related exhibitions (2012).

 

Her following project Madame B: Explorations in Emotional Capitalism, also with Michelle, is exhibited worldwide. She just finished a feature film and 5-screen installation on René Descartes and his infelicitously ending friendship with Queen Kristina of Sweden.

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Occasionally she acts as an independent curator. Her co-curated exhibition 2MOVE travelled to four countries. In 2017 she curated an exhibition for the Munch museum in Oslo.

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Publications about Mieke Bal

 

Eighty-Eight

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Eighty-Eight: Mieke Bal PhDs 1983-2011. Edited by Esther Peeren and Murat Aydemir, Amsterdam: ASCA Press, 2011

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About Mieke Bal

About Mieke Bal, special issue of Art History, 30 (3), edited by Deborah Cherry, Oxford, UK: Blackwell (June 2007), 301–473 (also published as a book, Blackwell 2008) read articles here (limited access)

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Reading, Writing, Filming, Dreaming, Dressing

“Reading, Writing, Filming, Dreaming, Dressing.” In Art History: About Mieke Bal, edited by Deborah Cherry, Oxford, UK: Blackwell (June 2007), 406-417 (with Michael Ann Holly) read article here (limited access)

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Liber Amicorum

Liber Amicorum, Door het oog van de tekst: Essays voor Mieke Bal over visie, edited by Ernst van Alphen and Irene de Jong, Muiderberg, the Netherlands: Coutinho, 1988

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For more, see the section Selection of Review Articles and Interviews in Mieke’s CV