Imagination and dramaturgy
I am continuously working on the cultural history of imagination and dramaturgy. Recent articles include “The ethics of imagining and the dramaturgy of spectatorship” in the recently published issue of Performing Ethos, “Ethical Dramaturgies”.
Artistic exchange and cultural mobility at the Royal Danish Theatre
With the Danish National Archives, I have secured funding for the digitization of the archive of the Royal Danish Theatre. In my ongoing research project,
Artistic Exchanges [ArtEx]: The Royal Danish Theatre and Europe,
funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, my team and I will be researching transnationality and artistic exchange at the theatre in the long 19th century. We will trace how artists travelled across borders in dynamic digital ‘mobility maps’ and investigate how spaces, topographies, cultures and ideas of nationalities were imagined and performed.
Pilot project: theatre archives and digital methods
Since 2020, I have been participating in the pilot project Danish theater archives in the digital era in research and teaching. Our case studies include Ludvig Holberg’s comedies, which we analyse as TEI-encoded text files in RStudio. Read this open access article in Orbis Litterarum.
Theatre and Censorship
With my colleague, Knut Ove Arntzen, I have recently written an article on censorship in Danish and Norwegian theatre for the Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship, eds. Anne Etienne & Graham Saunders.
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Danish interwar drama
With, Anna Lawaetz, I have been working on a series of articles on Danish playwright Svend Borberg (1888-1947). Our recently published article in Theatre Research International investigates his 1943 play Baaden (The Boat), one of the most controversial plays during the German occupation of Denmark in World War II and the first-ever portrayal of the Faroe Islands on the Danish national stage. Find more articles under Publications.
