Julie K. Allen (b. 1974) is Professor of Comparative Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, USA. She earned her postgraduate degrees in German and Scandinavian studies from Harvard University (MA 2000, PhD 2005) and was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2006-16 before moving to BYU. Her research has primarily focused on issues related to the communication of cultural identity through literature and film. She is the author of a number of articles and the monographs Icons of Danish Modernity: Georg Brandes & Asta Nielsen (2012), Danish but Not Lutheran: The Impact of Mormonism on Danish Cultural Identity, 1850-1920 (2017), Screening Europe in Australasia: Transnational Silent Film Before and After the Rise of Hollywood (2022), and The Silent Muse. The Memoirs of Asta Nielsen (2022).
Julie K. Allen
During Julie K. Allen's research stay at DFI from January to June 2026, Julie is working on a book project about the Danish cinema licensing system (in force from approximately 1906/1922 until 1972) and how the selection of well-known Danish actors and film directors such as Urban Gad, Benjamin Christensen, Bodil Ipsen, and Carl Theodor Dreyer as licensees can shed light on the cultural politics of with film exhibition.
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