Kirsten Drotner#
Photo: Ole Munksgaard
| Membership Number: | 3755 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.dream dk |
Present and Previous Positions
- Academic appointments
- 2018 Senior research fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
- 2008-09 Visiting professor, Dept. of Child and Youth Studies, University of Stockholm
- 2004-10 Visiting professor (professor II), Dept. of Educational Research, University of Oslo
- 2004 Visiting professor at the International Science Centre, Örebro University, Sweden
- Since 2000 Professor and chair of media studies, University of Southern Denmark
- 1999 Bonnier chair, Dept. of Journalism, Media and Communication, Stockholm University
- 1990-2000 Associate professor, Institute of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen.
- 1977-1990 Junior and senior research fellow at the University of Aarhus, the Danish Council for Research Policy and Planning, the Danish Research Council for the Humanities
- Research stays
- 2002, 2005, 2017 San Cataldo, Italy
- 2004 Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, MIT
- 1997 Research visits at The Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania; Dept of History, Rutgers University; Groupe de recherche sur les jeunes et les médias, Université de Montréal; School of Communication, SFU Vancouver; Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University, Montreal
- 1977-81 Research visits at The Bodleian Library i Oxford, The British Museum, London; University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham University; Dept of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
Fields of Scholarship
- Literature, culture and media studies
- Cultural heritage studies
- History
- Philosophy and education
- Information and communication technology
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Applied Research Award, International Communication Association
- 2014 Elected fellow, International Communication Association
- 2012 Knighthood, the Order of Dannebrog
- 2009 Prize for best Danish academic textbook: Mediehistorier [Media histories]], Samfundslitteratur
- 2005 Elected fellow, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 1990 Children's Literature Association prize for best scholarly work
