tatiana chemi

Tatiana Chemi, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, Chair of Educational Innovation, Department of Culture and Learning, where she works in the field of artistic/aesthetic learning and creative processes. She started her career as scholar investigating theatre, comedy and Absurdism (In the Beginning Was the Pun: Comedy and Humour in Samuel Beckett’s Theatre, 2013). From there she moved into post-dramatic, physical theatre and the intersection between theatre and education, looking at creative partnerships in schools (The Art of Arts Integration, 2014), artistic creativity (with Borup and Hersted, Behind the Scenes of Artistic Creativity, 2015) and at artist-led learning in higher education (with Neilson, The Pedagogy of the Moment: Building Artistic Time-Spaces for critical-creative learning, 2022). More recently, she has been looking at theatre laboratories as material and affective places of/for education (A Theatre Laboratory Approach to Pedagogy and Creativity: Odin Teatret and Group Learning, 2018), study that led to the interest in the pedagogy of love and care (with Brattico, E., Fjorback, L. O., & Harmat, L. (Eds.) Arts and Mindfulness Education for Human Flourishing, 2022). In 2013, Aalborg University Press named her Author of the Year and in 2021 she was nominated Teacher of the Year. In 2018-2021 she has led as Principal Investigator the Erasmus+ funded research project, ALL - Artist Led Learning in Higher Education. She is currently involved in a research project exploring theatre laboratories in nursing education (Holistic Learning of Lived and Imagined Experiences – HoLLIE Lab) and arts-based education and educational research with focus on affectivity (love, care, care aesthetics) and critical theories (freedom, hope). She has founded and led the researchers’ group Arts-Based Methods and Performativity in Educational Research (AMPERE), with focus on the arts and/in social justice and communities. Currently, she is founder and leader of the researchers’ group CCARE (Critical-Creativity, the Arts and Research in Education), collecting junior researchers and undergraduate students. She has been Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Chester, UK (2018-2024) and is visiting researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.