Karen Arnfred Vedel

Short presentation

RESEARCH, project management, teaching and dramaturgy

Research areas include artistic research in performing arts, dance and theatre historiography, artistic mobility, site specificity, ritual and performance theory. Widely published and invited as guest lecturer in Denmark and abroad on numerous occasions.

Teaching at BA-level includes course in Theatre History, Performance Analysis and Complex Dramaturgy - and at MA-level, special topics courses in Site Specificity and Audience Relations

Service to the community includes project reports, conference moderation, peer reviews, examinations, appointed member of academic evaluation committees (MA and PhD), editorial boards and artistic jurys as well as organizing academic conferences and generating income from research foundations. Currently serving on on the Board of Directors of Københavns Teatersamarbejde (KbhT) and the Evaluration Committee of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies' Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts.

CV

• 2015 Associate Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
• 2012 Adjunct Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
• 2008 - 2012 Research Fellow at Tampere University as part of the research group Dance in Nordic Spaces (with support from Svenska Riksbanken)
• 2006- 2008 Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Core Fellowship Program
• 2005-2006 Postdoctorate Fellowship University of Copenhagen research priority area: Religion in the 21st Century
• 2004   PhD, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies Section for Dance and Theatre Studies, University of Copenhagen: Title: ”Ballethistoriens Anden. Moderne scenisk dans i Danmark 1900 – 1975”
• 1994   MA (cand. mag.), Department of Theatre Studies, University of Copenhagen. Thesis: ”Den energiske frue: Ballet og dans i Danmark set gennem Emilie Walboms virke”.
• 1978  BA (bifag), Department of Cultural Sociology, University of Copenhagen