Katrien Pype (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

Submitted:   Sat, June 14, 2008


Katrien Pype
Ph.D. Student
Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (IARA)
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium

Mail address:
Parkstraat 45
Box 3615
B-3000
Leuven
Belgium

phone:  +32.16.32.04.63
fax:    +32.16.32.59.02
email:  Katrien.Pype@soc.kuleuven.be

Web site: http://soc.kuleuven.be/arc/staff/katrienpype.htm


Currently, I am preparing a Ph.D. thesis on visual culture in Kinshasa, 
the production of television serials as modes of evangelization.

My research interests include: Central Africa, religion (Pentecostalism), 
masculinities and femininities, politics, mass media, popular culture 
(theater, dance, sports).


Recent publications:

"Fighting Boys, Strong Men, and Gorillas. Notes on the Imagination of  
Masculinities in Postcolonial Kinshasa (DR Congo)," Africa, Journal of  
the International Institute, 2007, 77 (2), 250-271.

"Dancing for God or the Devil. Pentecostalist Politics of Popular Dance  
in Kinshasa," Journal of Religion in Africa. 2006, 36 (3-4), 296-318.

"'We need to open up the country'. Development and the Christian Key 
Scenario in the Social Space of Kinshasa's Teleserials," JAMS - Journal of 
African Media Studies, 2007, 1 (2). Special Issue, December 2007: 
Selections from "Media and Social Change in Africa", Conference Held at 
the University of Westminster, March 2006. [17 pp.]