Mieke Bal (Heemstede, 1946). She is Professor of Theory of Literature at the University of Amsterdam and founding director of ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis). His work, essential for understanding the development of contemporary Literature, Art History and Visual Culture, has approached cultural objects through an interdisciplinary perspective in which literary theory and semiotics go hand in hand. , feminism, art history, cultural studies or postcolonial theory. Her areas of work range from classical antiquity to migratory aesthetics. His many books include Of What One Cannot Speak: Doris Salcedo’s Political Art (2010), Loving Yusuf (2008), A Mieke Bal Reader (2006), Traveling Concepts in the Humanities (2002), Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art , Preposterous History (1999), Reading 'Rembrandt': Beyond the Word-Image Opposition (1995) or Narratology (1979). In Spanish they have been translated, among others, Times upset (Akal, 2016), Concepts travelers in humanities (CENDEAC, 2009) or A house for the dream of reason (CENDEAC, 2007), texts that have been introducing his work in the Spanish and Latin American territory, and that have made it a central reference for Visual Studies in Spanish.

Mieke Bal is also a video artist and her work has been exhibited internationally. Her experimental documents on her immigration include A Thousand and One Days, Colony, and the installation Nothing is Missing. She sporadically holds exhibitions as an independent curator.