Rebecka Brinch Senior lecturer

Rebecka Brinch holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Theater Studies from Stockholm University (2018). Her dissertation, entitled To Grow Sideways. Themes, Aesthetics, and the Notion of the Child in Suzanne Osten's Theatre for Young Audiences, focused on studying Suzanne Osten's theater for children. Rebecca's research interests lie in intercultural theater and migration, particularly in contemporary performing arts, theater for young audiences, children's culture, and performance analysis. In 2023, Rebecka is working on a post-doctoral research project on migration in contemporary performing arts for young people. The Swedish Research Council is supporting the project titled "Staging Migration: Rhetoric, Representation, and Reception in Swedish Children's Theatre." The project aims to shed light on the potential of children's theater to present an inclusive Sweden and to explore whether unintentional dividing lines between "us" and "them" can be reproduced. Moreover, Rebecka is working on a communication project funded by the Swedish Research Council during the same year.