CV

Education:

• 2017-2021: PhD, University of Glasgow, Department of Culture and Creative arts and Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet). Award: AHRC-fellowship. Thesis: 'How much home does a person need?' Asylum and Belonging through Collective Playwriting
• 2013-2014: Masters of Letters (MLitt) in Theatre and Performance Practices, University of Glasgow. Funding: The Scottish Council (Scottish Fee Waiver-award). Thesis: 'In you that journey is': Home and Homelessness in the World and On Stage
• 2012-2013: Masters of Science (MsC) in Playwriting, University of Edinburgh. Funding: Augustinus Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond. Thesis: Three Lives (full-length play)
• 2009-2012: Bachelor (BA) of Arts in English, University of Copenhagen. Thesis: One the Verge of Becoming a Story: Comparing Anton Chekhov and Edward Hopper
• 2011-2012: Erasmus Exchange, University of Edinburgh

Employment History:

University of Copenhagen:

• 2022-currently: Postdoc on the Where Love Happens Velux-funded project at the Institute for English, German and Romance Languages (Engerom)
• 2021-2022: Research Assistant at Engerom
• 2020-2021: Part-time lecturer at Engerom

University of Glasgow:

• 2019-2020: General Teaching Assistant
• 2017-2018: Postgraduate co-convenor for Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet). Organising events, presentations, social gatherings and workshops for researchers, students and Glasgow’s refugee community.
• 2017-2018: Conference administrator and organiser of the symposium for Theatre, Film and TV at the University of Glasgow

I am also a writer, librettist and facilitator of socially engaged projects. Recent credits include: 

2023:

• Ongoing: reviewer for Peripeti - tidsskrift for dramaturgiske studier

2022: 

• Part of an the artistic team for the Trampoline House contribution to the Documenta15 Festival in Kassel
• Editor and helper on visAvis – Voices on Asylum and Migration, No. 14, Printed by the lumbung Press, Kassel.
• Gunna. Short story in Dark Mountain Issue 21: Confluence

2021: 

• These days or everyone is a child of the inbetween or everyone is a child of the inbetween these days. Libretto for Composer Matthew Whiteside. Sundays at Noon: Within Without, Concert in the Courtyard, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

2019: 

• These days… Libretto for Composer Matthew Whiteside. The Space, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh
• Amazing Amelia written with and performed with the Women’s Group at the YCSA, UNESCO Spring School, Glasgow
• Workshop lead on a day-long course about the mechanisms of playwriting and the role of the playwright and the ethics of making theatre. University of Edinburgh

2018: 

• This is Us, play written with and performed by a group living in Deportation Centre Sjælsmark, Trampoline House, Copenhagen
• These days… Libretto for Composer Matthew Whiteside. The Night With… The Hug & Pint, Glasgow
• Little Black Lies. Libretto for composer Matthew Whiteside performed and produced by Scottish Opera. Scottish Opera, Connect Company, Glasgow.
• Twice Removed. Libretto for composer Angela Slater. Cheltenham Composers Academy, Cheltenham Festivals
  
  

NGO, internships and volunteering include:

• 2017-currently: Trampoline House, Copenhagen (women’s class/women’s club, democracy class, child care, Danish and English teacher)
• 2018: Trampoline House (intern in Folkebevægelsen for Asylbørns Fremtid and Women's Club)
• 2018-2020: Youth Community Support Agency (youth worker developing and assisting on creative projects for young people from marginalised backgrounds)
• 2016: Scottish Refugee Council (facilitator for the Scottish Refugee Festival)
• 2014: Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland (intern)

Kort præsentation

Helene Grøn works as a postdoc on the Where Love Happens Velux-Funded project. She teaches Creative Writing and Creative non-fiction as part of the MA-speciality in Writing in English, as well as core and elective courses in English literature and drama, ranging from Shakespeare adaptations, literature and history on human rights, to artistic and contemporary representations of asylum and migration. She holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow, for which she was awarded an AHRC-fellowship. 

Grøn is an interdisciplinary and collaborative researcher, combining research on topics of human rights, relationships of love and belonging, narratives of trauma and resilience and artistic interventions into forced migration. She specialises in literature and theatre around asylum and migration, and also on art-as-method and socially engaged arts practices of co-writing and creative writing. 

Interesseområder

• Contemporary representations of forced migration
• Creative writing and creative nonfiction
• Histories and literatures on affect and emotion
• Histories and literatures on human rights
• Arts-based research practices
• Theatre and performance studies
• Migratory theatre and literature
• Migratory dramaturgies
• Exile and diaspora studies
• Narrative therapy and narrations of trauma and resilience

Aktuel forskning

My current research looks at the connection between love and law in the development of human rights, thereby exploring love as an affective as well as politically and historically coded instance. My project within the Where Love Happens research group thereby holds three lines of inquiry: to explore love as a condition for creating equality. Secondly, interrogating how a prism for ‘reading rights’ might be developed in holding declarations of love and rights together. Thirdly, to unfold spatiotemporal connections of rights-discourse between the works of 19^th Century and today as new ways of enacting love and rights are emerging. 

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

• Literature and drama around migration and asylum
• Refugee studies
• Performance and/or creative interventions into asylum/migration 
• Creative writing
• Creative nonfiction
• Plays, theatre and dramaturgy
• Practice-as-research