Aldo Milohnić, PhD, is a professor of theatre history at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and the head of the Theatre and Film Studies Centre. He has lectured and conducted seminars at the universities in Aarhus (School of Communication and Culture – Department of Dramaturgy and Musicology), Belgrade (University of Arts), Bochum (Ruhr-Universität, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft), Milan (La Statale, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali), Rijeka (Academy of Applied Arts), Skopje (Faculty of Dramatic Arts), Zadar, Zagreb (Academy of Dramatic Art), etc.
He is author of the monographs Theories of Contemporary Theatre and Performance (2009), Art in Times of the Rule of Law and Capital (2016), Theatre of Resistance (2021), I Worked for 40 Years: Dramatisations and Adaptations of Cankar’s The Bailiff Yerney (2022) and co-author of several other books (Culture Ltd. and It’s Time for Brecht, among others ). He is author of numerous articles in academic journals and editor of anthologies and special issues of performing arts journals (Theatre of Resistance; The Politicality of Performance; Pupilcheks Arrived – 40 Years of the Pupilija Ferkeverk Theatre; Artivism; Brecht/Gestus; How to Do Things with Words in Theatre; Women in Theatre, etc.).
His research interests include the history and theory of theatre, contemporary performing practices and the sociology of culture and arts. He is also a dramaturg and a curator of exhibitions, conferences and symposiums in the field of performing arts.
He is a member of the editorial boards of performing arts journals Amfiteater and European Journal of Theatre and Performance and a scientific board member of the journal Connessioni remote. He is also a member of the Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers of Slovenia and International Federation for Theatre Research as well as a board member of the Slovenian Theatre Institute and the European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance.