Alexandra Portmann

Alexandra Portmann is a lecturer at the University of Bern. From 2017-2019 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and Queen Mary University of London, founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Her dissertation on Hamlet in the region of former Yugoslavia received the Faculty Award for the best PhD thesis at the University of Bern (2015) and the Martin Lehnert Award from the German Shakespeare Foundation (2016). Her research interests are contemporary theatre production, transnational festivals, cultural economics, theatre theory and Shakespeare in performance.