Rikard Hoogland

I received my PhD in 2005. I'm working as a associated professor in Theatre studies at Stockholm University. My teaching includes theater history, theatre criticism, cultural policy. Before my position at the University, I worked as dramaturg at the Radio Drama department at the Swedish national broadcast, editor of the theatre magazine Teatertidningen and also part of an commission at the state-funded foundation for the future of culture. I'm also regularly write articles about theatre in German.

My research topics are Independent theatre groups, Swedish theatre during the beginning of the 20th century, Contemporary Swedish theatre, Brecht and modern forms of directing, theatre and reality.
Some of my latest publications are:
” Lars Norén and Jon Fosse: Nordic grey or theatre innovators?”, Contemporary European Playwrights / [ed] Maria M. Delgado, Bryce Lease, Dan Rebellato, London: Routledge, 2020

”Brecht as a Stranger in a Post Dramatic Era: Fatzer at Deutsches Theater 2016”, The Brecht Yearbook/Das Brecht Jahrbuch 46, New York: Camden House, 2021

”The Rise and Fall of a Theater King: Albert Ranft and the Commercialization of the Swedish Theatre Field around 1900”. Dietze, Antje & Alexander Vari (eds.) Urban Popular Culture: Experiences from Northern, East-Central and Southern Europe, 1870s–1930s. London: Routledge, 2022

“‘How close is Angola to us?’ Peter Weiss’s play Song of the Lusitanian Bogeyman in the shadow of the Cold War”, Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War, eds. Christoper Balme & Berenika Szymanski-Düll, Basingtoke: Palgrave 2017