Bénédicte Ledent is CLIC Lorand Chair in Intermediality Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2023-2024 and honorary professor from the University of Liège, where she taught anglophone literatures until 2021 and directed the postcolonial research group CEREP from 2009 to 2019. Her research interests include Caribbean and Black British literatures, biographical fiction, slavery novels as well as the representation of madness in literature. She has published extensively on the work of Caryl Phillips and other contemporary writers of the Caribbean diaspora. She is co-editor, with Delphine Munos, of the book series Cross/Cultures (Brill). Her most recent publication is an edited collection of Caryl Phillips’s radio plays (Methuen, 2023).

Iana Nikitenko holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Degree in Children's Literature, Media and Culture from the University of Glasgow (2022). During her studies, she focused on life writing, cultural memory, postmemory and trauma. She is currently investigating these topics in the context of radiobiographies as part of the FWO-funded project Broadcast Biographies: Innovations in Genre and Medium (1945-2020) under the supervision of Prof. Inge Arteel and Prof. Birgit Van Puymbroeck.

A former postdoc in Linguistics, Julie Van Bogaert bridges the gap between radio and academe. She now works as the research coordinator of Ghent University’s History Department. Pioneering science communication, she launched the department’s very own history podcast “Geheugenissen” at a time when in Flanders the medium was still in its infancy. At the same time, Julie Van Bogaert is a broadcaster for the Flemish cultural radio station Klara, where she currently hosts the Saturday afternoon show “Klara serveert”. Merging those two disparate professional domains, Julie Van Bogaert became the creator of “De vorstinnen van Vlaanderen”, a Klara podcast about the leading ladies of the Middle Ages based on the latest historical research.

Lise Van Acker is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and is working on the project “Theatre of the Embodied Mind: Cognition in Contemporary British Audio Drama”. She holds a master’s degree in Dutch and English Literature and Linguistics (2021) and an advanced master’s degree in Literary Studies (2022). Her theses deal with the presentation of consciousness in modernist and contemporary texts. Additionally, she holds a postgraduate degree in Curatorial Studies (2023) and was assistant curator in the research group Ghent, playing field of the visual arts, 1957-1987.

Lucas Derycke is an audio and theatre maker. He graduated from the RITCS School of Arts in Brussels in 2014. His work has been broadcast and performed in Belgium and abroad. His audio work includes the radio drama “Screener”, which was awarded the Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden in 2017, “De Kunst van het Verdwijnen” with Bart Van Nuffelen and the theatre company MartHa!tentatief, the radio fiction series “Gewone Mensen” and the column “Bent die iedereen kent.” He is chair of Klankverbond, the Flemish association for audio makers, and one of the driving forces behind the independent podcast “Plantrekkers” Lucas is also guest lecturer at LUCA School of Arts (Leuven) and RITCS School of Arts (Brussels).

After completing a master's degree at the EHESS in Arts, Literature, and Languages, as well as a master's degree in Cultural Journalism at the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Manon Houtart is currently a PhD student in French Language and Literature at the University of Namur (Belgium), under a mandate from the F.N.R.S. Her thesis, supervised by Denis Saint-Amand, focuses on the relationships between Belgian and French surrealist poets and radio. She is also a member of the Namur Institute of Language, Text, and Transmediality (NaLTT), and the editorial boards of COnTEXTES, a journal of sociology of literature, Textyles, a journal of Belgian French-language literature, and Radiophonies littéraires (radiolitt.hypotheses.org), an online research notebook directed by Céline Pardo.

Selkie is the audiomakery of soundartist Ruben Nachtergaele and writer Eva De Groote. As a duo they create podcasts, visualizations and installations ranging from documentary to more experimental work. For their performances, they expand on their audiowork by collaborating with live musicians and visual artists.