I am Full Professor in Theatre Studies at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway.
I am currently leading the research project Artistic Exchanges: The Royal Danish Theatre and Europe (2021-). The project researches European artistic exchange and develops digital infrastructures to trace transnational artistic networks at the Royal Danish Theatre. With Jeffrey Ravel, I also co-direct transnationalstages.net, a digital platform for comparative studies of theatrical repertoires. See more under Research.
In 2025, I was awarded the status of Excellent Teaching Practitioner and the University of Bergen (Faculty of Humanities) Sparrow Owl Prize for educational quality in 2026.
I hold a MA in Text and Performance (2005, King’s College London/Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) and an MA in Theatre Studies for which I received the University of Copenhagen’s Gold Medal for the dissertation ‘Space and Visuality in the Drama Text’ (2007). In 2014, I completed my Ph.D. thesis entitled ‘The Theatre of Imagining: Imagination in the Mind – Imagination on the Stage’, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018 as the first comprehensive study of the cultural history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama.
Prior to joining the University of Bergen, I held a Carlsberg Foundation research fellowship in Comparative Literature at the Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark with the project Imagining Imagination in Philosophy and Drama 1960-.
I teach and supervise students in a broad range of topics, mainly related to dramaturgy and theatre history.