Eva Novrup Redvall

Eva Novrup Redvall

PhD

  • Karen Blixens Plads 8

    2300 København S

1998 …2024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Short presentation

My research focuses on film and media production, particularly screenwriting and creative collaboration. I also study broader issues related to Danish/Nordic cinema and drama series, among them questions of industry structures, of practitioners’ agency and authorship and of cultural and film policy.

I am the Principal Investigator of the research project Reaching Young Audiences: Serial fiction and cross-media storyworlds for children and young audiences supported by Independent Research Fund Denmark 2019-2024 .

Primary fields of research

Selected research topics are:

  • film and media production
  • screenwriting
  • fiction for children and young audiences
  • creativity theory and creative collaboration
  • industry structures
  • Danish/Nordic cinema and television drama series
  • practitioners’ agency and issues of authorship
  • cultural and film policy
  • film criticism

 

Teaching

I have been teaching and supervising at BA and MA levels on the following topics:

  • film and media production
  • screenwriting
  • creativity theory and creative collaboration
  • industry structures
  • Danish/Nordic cinema and television drama series
  • practitioners’ agency and authorship
  • cultural and film policy
  • film criticism

CV

 

Education and employment

  • 2024-now: Associate Professor in the Promotion Programme, University of Copenhagen
  • 2015-2024: Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
  • 2014-2015: Post Doc, University of Copenhagen
  • 2011-2014: Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen
  • 2010-2011: Research Assistant, University of Copenhagen
  • 2007-2010: PhD student, University of Copenhagen

 

Selected professional activities

  • 2011-2020 Member of the Adjudication Committee for The Nordic Council Film Prize
  • 2016          2 months as visiting scholar at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand
  • 2015-2017 Founder and chair of Nordmedia's Division 10: Television and Film Studies (for the Nordmedia conferences in Copenhagen in 2015 and in Helsinki in 2017)
  • 2011-2016 Founder and Head of the research priority area Creative Media Industries (CMI) 
  • 2010         Organizer of the annual Screenwriting Research Conference (SRN)
  • 2006-2021 Board member of the Danish Film Critics Association (until March 2021)
  • 2002-2016 Part of the programming team for The Göteborg International Film Festival

 

Other activities:

Film critic for the daily Danish newspaper Information since 1999

Board member of The Danish Film Institute from 2018

Board member of Carl Th. Dreyers Mindefond from 2017

Current research

I am the Principal Investigator of the research project Reaching Young Audiences: Serial fiction and cross-media storyworlds for children and young audiences supported by Independent Research Fund Denmark 2019-2024.

https://comm.ku.dk/research/film-science-and-creative-media-industries/rya/

Before that I have been working on the European research project Mediating Cultural Encounters Through European Screens:

http://mecetes.co.uk

and the Danish research project What Makes Danish TV Drama Travel?

http://danishtvdrama.au.dk

I have also organised three international research workshops Commissioning Creativity and Funding Films together with Inge Ejbye Sørensen at The University of Glasgow

http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/research/ccpr/researchinccpr/commissioningcreativityandfundingfilmsworkshops2016-17/

 

Possible conflicts of interest

I have been a film critic for the daily Danish newspaper Information since 1999 and I regularly do presentations and occasionally preprare reports for the national and international film and television industries. I am a board member of The Danish Film Institute and Carl Th. Dreyers Mindefond.

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities