Julie Holledge is Professor Emerita of Drama at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. Her international standing as a scholar has been recognised through appointments as a 'Distinguished Professor' at the Open University of Hong Kong, and as a Professor II at the Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo. She recently completed three collaborative book projects, Ibsen on Theatre (2018), A Global Doll's House: Ibsen and Distant Visions (2016; with Bollen and Tompkins), and Ibsen Between Cultures (2016). She has directed 22 professional theatre productions in the UK and Australia. In 2017, she was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities.