Ib Bondebjerg

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BA and MA in Danish and Comparative literature from the University of Copenhagen, 1973. Ph.d. in Scandinavian literature, 1978. 1977-1988 assistant and associate professor at the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, University of Copenhagen. Fullbright Lecturer at the University of California Los Angeles, 1986, Docent (1988-1996) at the department of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen, research professor (1996-1999). 2000-2016 Professor at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, Section for Film, Media and Communication, University of Copenhagen.Professor emeritus (2016-)

Head of the Department of Film and Media studies (1990-1994 and 2001-2002). Member of The Danish Research Council for the Humanities (1991-1997), 1994-1996 Chairman of the Danish Research Council of the Humanities and The Committee of Heads of Danish Research Councils. Member of Core Group of European Heads of Research Councils (1994-1996). Member of ESF's Standing Committee for the Humanities and its Core Group, 1994-1997. Chairman of the board of The Danish Film Institute (1997-2000). Convenor of the IAMCR-working group on Mass Media & Popular Fiction (1988-1999.

On the the editorial board of SMID's journal Mediekultur (1989-1993), Editor in chief of Northern Light. Film and Media Studies Yearbook.  On the advisory board Stduies in Documentary film (2007-), associate editor of Palgrave Communication (2013-), co-editor of the book series Palgrave European Film and Media Studies (2013-).

Co-director of the research projects Changing Media-Changing Europe (2000-2005, with professor Peter Golding, UK), Media and Democracy in the Network Society ( 2002-2004), Media Democracy and European Culture (2006-2009) and Mediating Cultural Encounters Through European Screens (MeCETES, 2013-2016  www.mecetes.co.uk)

Short presentation

Ib Bondebjerg is professor emeritus in The Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He was founder and director of the Centre for Modern European Studies (2008-2011), Chairman of the Danish Research Council for the humanities (1993-1997), member Standing Committee for the Humanities and Social Sciences, European Science Foundation (1993-1997) and EUROHORCH (1995-1997), and chairman of The Danish Film Institute (1997-200). He is associate editor of the open access journal Palgrave Communications and co-editor of the book series Palgrave European Film and Media Studies.  He was the co-director of the European research project Changing Media – Changing Europe (2000-2005), the research project Media and Democracy in the Network Society (2002-2006) and one of the three PI’s of the research project Mediating Cultural Encounters Through European Screens (2013-2016). His most recent books in English are: Media, Democracy and European Culture (2008, co-ed.), Engaging with Reality: Documentary and Globalization (2014), European Cinema and Television: Cultural Policy and Everyday Life (co-ed. 2015), and the forthcoming Transnational European Television Drama: Production, Genres and Audiences (2017)