Frederik Le Roy is a lecturer at the department of Drama of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent and guest professor at the department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies at Ghent University at Ghent University. He holds degrees in Philosophy (Catholic University of Leuven, 2003) and Performance Studies and Film (Ghent University, 2005) and was visiting research student at the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley in 2006. His current research investigates the critical engagement with historicist notions of history and chronologically ordered time in theatre and (cultural) performance.