Ulla Kallenbach
- E-mailulla.kallenbach@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 24 52
- Visitor AddressSydnesplassen 7HF-bygget5007 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78055020 Bergen
I am Associate Professor in Theatre Studies at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, where I am heading the Theatre History and Dramaturgy Research Group.
I am also steering committee member of the Centre for Historical Performance Practice (CHiPP), Aarhus University, Denmark, and President of the Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars.
I am currently heading the international collective research project Artistic Exchanges - The Royal Danish Theatre and Europe (see more under Current Projects).
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 was a Carlsberg Foundation research fellow 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, theatre history and historiography.
- (2023). Svend Borberg: Mellemkrigstidens fortrængte forfatter. Nordica.
- (2023). Levels of presence in the drama text: be-tween close and distant reading. Orbis Litterarum.
- (2022). Svend Borberg: Punktummet, der ikke blev sat. Uopdagede værker fra en dramatiker med europæisk udsyn. Peripeti. 24-39.
- (2022). Harold Pinter's Old Times and the play of indistinction. Orbis Litterarum.
- (2020). The ethics of imagining and the dramaturgy of spectatorship. Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance. 41-55.
- (2019). Towards a Spectatorial Approach to Drama Analysis. Nordic Theatre Studies.
- (2018). “Beautiful Dream” or “Loathsome Delusion”: Imagination and Ideality in Nineteenth-Century Denmark. European Romantic Review.
- (2018). Feigning History: the early modern imagination and the theatre. Renæssanceforum. Tidsskrift for renæssanceforskning.
- (2014). The Disenchantment of the Wonderful - A Doll’s House and the Idealist Imagination. Nordic Theatre Studies.
- (2010). Værk/fantasi/virkelighed: Salò og det interaktive teater. Kulturo.
- (2022). Henrik Ibsens Et Dukkehjem.
- (2022). Travelling through Europe 1788 – A digital mapping of mobility.
- (2022). Transgressing Borders: Practices of Mobility and Cultural Exchange at The Royal Danish Theatre.
- (2022). Presentation of the ArtEx Database.
- (2022). Illusion, ideality and the “theatrical mind” of Johanne Luise Heiberg – between the real and the imaginary in the 19th century.
- (2022). Hvad er dansk teater?
- (2022). How to perceive perception (and make the invisible visible) in digital drama analysis and what to do when you can’t?
- (2022). Holbergs komedier i digital dramaanalyse.
- (2022). Forskerens bruk av digitale arkiv: digitale udfordringer i teaterforskningen.
- (2022). Dramaturgy and Imagination.
- (2022). Digital challenges and possibilities in theatre research.
- (2021). Artistic exchanges at the Royal Danish Theatre.
- (2021). Artistic Exchanges: On the Nordicness and Europeaness of the First Nordic National Theatre.
- (2020). Ethical dramaturgies, dramaturgies of spectatorship.
- (2018). Preface. Renæssanceforum. Tidsskrift for renæssanceforskning.
- (2015). Introduction: Mapping Theatre. Nordic Theatre Studies. 5-8.
- (2014). Introduction: Theatre and Technology. Nordic Theatre Studies. 7-7.
- (2017). Min arm - min forestilling: Gæstespil af Team Teatret på Edison. Peripeti.
- (2017). "I am in blood step’d in so far…” Macbeth, Teatersalen Odeon, Odense Teater. Peripeti.
- (2021). Det historiske blik. Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
- (2016). stage / page / play – Interdisciplinary Approaches to Theatre and Theatricality. Multivers.
- (2016). Djævelens billede - maskens magt - fra karneval til Dario Fo. Multivers.
- (2022). En verden af forestillinger. Skuespil & illusion.
- (2018). The Theatre of Imagining: A Cultural History of Imagination in the Mind and on the Stage.
- (2017). Tilfældighedernes spil. Teater 1.
- (2017). Hvem er Hamlet. Teater 1.
- (2017). Forestillinger om fantasi. Carlsbergfondet Årsskrift.
- (2016). Kongen og Narren i King Lear. Teater 1.
- (2016). Dømt til undergang: om den tragiske karakter. Teater 1.
- (2015). Historien om historien på teatret. Teater 1.
- (2014). Meningsløs vold? Teater 1.
- (2014). Fantasi i frit spil. Teater 1.
- (2014). The Theatre of Imagining: Imagination in the mind – imagination on the stage.
- (2021). Demaskeringen af idealismen – om historicitet og dramaturgi i Et Dukkehjem.
- (2016). Introduction.
- (2016). Imagination at play.
- (2016). Fantasiens teaterhistorie.
- (2014). Imagining Absence: Performance in the Text.
- (2012). Macbeth - The Catastrophe of Regicide and the Crisis of Imagination.
- (2020). Læsedrama. . In:
- (2020). Litteraturleksikon.
- (2020). Freytags pyramide. . In:
- (2020). Litteraturleksikon.
- (2021). Forord.
- (2008). ’Hvem er Lorca?’, ’Tidsliste’, ’Historien bag Blodbryllup’, ’Det sanselige og det surreelle’, ’La Baracca’.
- (2008). Hvem er Lorca?
- (2021). Fantasiens flow og kreativitetens kaos: om styring og ustyrlighed i en teaterproces. 221-236. In:
- (2021). Leg & Litteratur. Syddansk Universitetsforlag.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
PI of the international collective research project Artistic Exchanges - The Royal Danish Theatre and Europe. The project explores how the theatre was a “window to the world,” an essential agent for offering the public experiences of foreign cultures and for negotiating cultural identities at a time when international travelling was still rare. Using state of the art digital tools, we are currently developing databases and mappings that will allow us to analyse how artists travelled and how travelling influenced the repertoire and performance practices.
In 2020-21, I have also been participating in the pilot project Danish theater archives in the digital era in research and teaching under DeiC (Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation) and Royal Danish Library’s Cultural Heritage Cluster exploring Ludvig Holberg’s comedies.