Birgit Eriksson

Professor

School of Communication and Culture - Aesthetics and Culture
Langelandsgade 139
building 1580, 348
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
aekbe@cc.au.dk
Phone: +4587163086

My current research focuses on participatory arts and culture; cultural taste and communities; the uses of the arts; aesthetics, citizenship and politics. I am the director of Take Part – Research Network on Cultural Participation http://projekter.au.dk/en/take-part/; and co-director of a research program in Cultural Transformations http://cc.au.dk/en/research/research-programmes/cultural-transformations/.

I have recently been involved in and coordinated collective and participatory research projects about citizen participation in European cultural centres and about young people's experiences and expectations of cultural, social and political participation. My earlier research focused on the modern novel (especially the works of Goethe, Eco and Chatwin and the Bildungsroman) and on questions related to aesthetization, globalization and individualization.

Research areas

Aesthetics and everyday life
Cultural change
Cultural forms of expression
Cultural theory
Everyday life
Globalisation
High and low culture
Identity
Literary epochs Bildungsroman, theories of Bildung The modern novel
Modern aesthetic theory
Modernity
Popular culture
World literature globalization and literature

Latest publications

Accepted/In press
Cultural Participation: The perpetuation of middle-class privilege in Dublin, Ireland, by Kerry McCall Magan.
Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Literature review › Communication
Accepted/In press
Cultural Participation: The perpetuation of middle-class privilege in Dublin, Ireland
Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Literature review › Communication
Published
Data and Craft at the Collaborative Art Museum
Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review