Bob Selderslaghs (1973) is a doctor of Arts and works as a teaching artist and researcher in drama and education. He graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp in 1996 with a master of Drama and started working as an actor in theatre and television. He always combined his artistic work with artistic-educational activities: he taught part-time art education, in art secondary education and the arts education sector. In 2001, he obtained his teaching certificate at the University College of Antwerp. From 2008 to 2018, Bob was coordinator of the Teacher Training Programme in Drama at the Conservatoire, where he taught various subject courses. He currently coordinates the master projects of the educational Master of Music and Performing Arts and teaches ‘Research’ in the bachelor of Drama. Bob published several articles and books on (cross-domain) initiation and on Mantle of the Expert: a dramatic inquiry approach to learning and teaching that he has been researching intensively since 2016. In 2022, he obtained his PhD with the thesis ‘MoE 2.0 - Mantle of the Expert: from dramatic inquiry towards an artistic result in arts education’. He is currently conducting postdoctoral research on professionalising teaching artists. Bob is chair of the research group CORPoREAL.
