Iana is a PhD Fellow at the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She works on the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO)-funded research project Broadcast Biographies. Innovations in Genre and Medium (1945–2020), with a focus on English and German radio productions. Her research interests include literary and media studies, life writing, and transmedia storytelling.