Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy

The School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University invites applications for the position of tenure-track assistant professor of dramaturgy at the Department of Dramaturgy and Musicology. The tenure-track assistant professorship is a five-year, fixed-term appointment, with the possibility of permanent employment (tenure) as an associate professor. For information about attaining tenure, see the section on tenure review below.

The appointment begins on 1 January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The School of Communication and Culture is committed to diversity and encourages all qualified applicants to apply.

The position

The study of dramaturgy at Aarhus University was established in 1959. It has a strong tradition of combining research-based theoretical and practical teaching in both classroom and studio-theatre settings in theatre practices, theatre history, theatre and performance theory, applied dramaturgy and theatre pedagogy, and cultural politics and arts management. The dramaturgy section, which is part of the Department of Dramaturgy and Musicology, has numerous collaborations with local, national and international theatre makers, cultural institutions and other professional partners. We aim to educate students who demonstrate creative and societal agency and responsibility as they pursue careers in theatre, the arts and beyond.

The successful applicant is expected to share this ambition and further enhance our practice-focused dialogues between academic research and education and the professional field. With their research expertise anchored in state-of-the-art theatre, dramaturgy, and performance scholarship, they are expected to actively contribute to keeping our academic, curricular, and research activities current and further innovating them. The successful applicant should also be willing to contribute to the multidisciplinary teaching environment in the school’s aesthetic subjects and to engage in educational and organisational tasks.

Research from the dramaturgy section has been instrumental in extending the established domains of theatre pedagogy and applied drama toward a broader range of applications of dramaturgical theories, tools and methods in the contexts of production and project management, creative process design and leadership, group facilitation and coaching, interpersonal and organisational communication and drama pedagogy – within theatre, education and other fields. We are particularly looking for applicants who will take on a key role in further advancing this research strand of applied dramaturgy.

In addition to contributing to the specific area of applied dramaturgy, it is highly desirable that the applicant’s research and teaching portfolio also engages with one or more of the dramaturgy section’s other core profile areas: cultural leadership and institutional dramaturgies, archival practice and theatre history, digitalisation and mediatisation, cultural diversity and sustainability, immersive, interactive and affective dramaturgies, applied theatre and theatre pedagogy, and artistic research.

In sum, we are looking for a dedicated and theoretically and methodologically rigorous researcher and teacher who will strengthen the section’s research and teaching profile nationally and internationally while contributing to Aarhus University’s core activities in the areas of research, teaching and supervision, talent development and knowledge exchange.

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