Britta Timm Knudsen is Professor of Culture, Media and Experience Economy at Aarhus University DK. Her research focuses on difficult heritage, affect and event studies, tourism and social media. She has published extensively on difficult heritage sites and how they are experienced and co-produced by publics through different media. She is likewise a leading scholar in the field of affect theory and methodology and has published the monograph (2015) Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect: Politicizing Bodily Vulnerability. Routledge (co-author Stage, C) as well as (2015) Affective Methodologies, Palgrave (with Stage, C). Being a WP-leader in ECHOES, she is co-editor of the special issue of the Journal Heritage & Society entitled Decolonising European Colonial Heritage in Urban Spaces. Co-author (2018) of Affective Politics and Colonial Heritage, Rhodes Must fall at UCT and Oxford (with Andersen, C), in the International Journal of Heritage Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2018.1481134 and Affective Infrastructures of Re-emergence? Exploring Modalities of heritage Practices in Nantes (with Kølvraa, C.)(2021) Taylor & Francis Online, Open Access Affective Infrastructures of Re-emergence? Exploring Modalities of Heritage Practices in Nantes. She is co-editor of the forthcoming book Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe (with Oldfield, J, Buettner, L. and Zabunyan, E. (forthcoming), Routledge, Museum and Heritage Studies series. And author of Decolonial Countervisuality with Sorana Munsya, Laini Lusalusa and Stephanie Cillingwoode Williams in Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe
