Kristina HagströmResearcher

About me

I am a researcher and teacher in theatre and performance studies. Additionally, I am the Swedish Research Council’s scientific advisor for artistic research, and work as a freelance director, dramaturge, and translator.

My research is situated at the intersection of critical theory and creative practice, with interests in performance studies, dramaturgy and mise en scène, translation, and questions of testimony and memory work. My current project, ”Transformations of witnessing in contemporary performance”, is supported by the Swedish Research Council. Moreover, my creative research into questions of testimony in the poetry and drama of Charlotte Delbo, through her literary archive, is carried out with grants from Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse and the Swedish Academy.

I have a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from University of California, Berkeley, and have previously held positions as professor at the University of Gothenburg, visiting professor at Stockholm University of the Arts, and head of unit at Riksteatern, Sweden’s national touring theatre.

In 2024, I translated and directed William Shakespeare’s Hamlet for Gothenburg City Theatre. In the past year I have served as dramaturge for two productions in choreography: DOLLY by Or/Eller (MDT) and Haunted Desires by Björn Säfsten (Inkonst/Dansens Hus).

 

Current publications:

”Minnet som spelplats” in De Nio litterär kalender 2025. Ed. Magnus Halldin. Stockholm: Norstedts.

”Teater som överlevnad, teater som vittnesmål” in Ordkonst, Tema Drama, 2024:4.

”F***ing Shakespeare – orden bortom monumentet” in Med andra ord, nr. 121, 2024.

”The Promise of Cultural Diplomacy”, with Hedda Krausz Sjögren, in The Thinker 95:2, 2023.