Kris Rutten works as an associate professor at the Department of Educational Studies of Ghent University where he leads the research group Culture & Education. He studied Art History and Comparative Cultural Studies and obtained a PhD in Educational Sciences with a dissertation on the rhetorical and narrative turn in education. His fields of expertise are: the rhetoric of cultural literacy, the pedagogical dimensions of culture, the societal role of cultural institutions and the ethnographic turn in the arts. He is lecturer-in-charge for the BA courses Anthropology and Culture & Education, the MA course Cultural Studies and the academic teacher training course Culture, Media and Education. He is an Associate Editor of the academic journal Critical Arts. He served as the president of the Rhetoric Society of Europe (RSE) and as Board member of the International Association for Cultural Studies (ACS). He is currently the president of the Kenneth Burke Society and of the Flemish Reading Foundation (Iedereen Leest). He received the KBS Emerging Scholar Award at the 9th triennial conference of the Kenneth Burke Society.  He was a visiting scholar at the universities of Bath (UK), Stirling (UK), British Columbia (Ca) and Luxembourg (Lux). He has currently a strong focus on setting up research collaboration with the Global South. Full list of publications: E-mail: kris.rutten@ugent.be