Of Handwriting, Typewriters, and a Writer's Block, or How the Playwright Learnt to Drive a Car and Stopped Worrying about Writing Another Word

Jan Baetens is professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of Leuven (Belgium), where he is member of the MDRN group on literary history (www.mdrn.be). His work on genre and medium innovation in literature is sponsored by the BELSPO “inter-university attraction pole” program (IAP 7/01, see: http://lmi.arts.kuleuven.be/). He has published widely on word and image studies, often in so-called minor genres (graphic novel, photonovel, novelization).