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• 2003: PhD in Danish Literature, University of Edinburgh
  Thesis: Danmarkshistorier: National Imagination and Novel in Late-Twentieth Century Denmark. More ...
• 1997: MSc in the Practice and Theory of Translation, University of Edinburgh
• 1996: MA (Hons) Modern European Languages (French and Danish) with European Union Studies, University of Edinburgh

Research interests

• The construction of nationness in narrative: how literature, film and other media, especially hybrid genres and formally experimental texts, represent and re-negotiate the space and time of the nation
• The relationship between historiography and fiction in national narratives
• The connections between the postnational, the posthistorical and the posthuman in literature and film
• The role of the human body in reading, viewing and performing nationness
• The textual representation of regional language varieties, and their translation

Teaching

• Danish language: Beginners and Honours
• Undergraduate seminars on Nordic cinema
• MA Film Studies module spring 2006 and 2007: Nordic Cinema -  Contextualising Dreyer, Bergman and Dogme 95. More ...
• Occasional lectures and seminars for MA Gender Studies (more ... ), and BA Language and Culture (more ... ).

Publications

• 'It's All About Snow: Limning the Posthuman Body in Tarkovsky's Solaris and Vinterberg's It's All About Love'. Forthcoming 2007 in New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Cinema.
• '"En tredjedel gud, en tredjedel dyr, og en tredjedel menneske": Peter Høegs posthumane kroppe'. Invited contribution to Synsvinkler: Tidsskrift for nordisk litteratur og sprog (May 2007: theme issue on Peter Høeg)
• 'Narratives and Fictions of Empire: Denmark' in Poddar, Prem, Rajeev Patke and Lars Jensen (eds): A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in Continental Europe and its Empires. Forthcoming 2007, Edinburgh University Press
• 'The Tale-End of History: Literary Form, Historiography, and the Danish (Post)national Imagination' in Mole, Richard (ed.): Discourse, Identity and Politics in Europe. Forthcoming 2007, London: Palgrave Macmillan
• '"A Land of Machines": On Time, Technology and Otherness in some Tales by H.C. Andersen', in Renton, Jennie (ed.): Textualities 1: Magic Afoot, May 2006 More ...
• Northern Constellations: New Readings in Nordic Cinema, C. Claire Thomson (ed) Norwich : Norvik Press (2006). More ...
• Guest editor, Scandinavica 44:2 (November 2005): theme issue on Nordic National Narratives:
  - 'Introduction: Re-imagining Nordic National Narratives' 131-142
  - 'Walking in the City, Mapping the World: Migrational Spaces in Peer Hultberg's Byen og verden' 203-228
• ‘Stille eksistenser: Silence, Landscape and Language in Fiction by Warner, Greig and Grønfeldt’ in Thomsen, Bjarne Thorup et al (eds): Centring on the Peripheries, Norwich, Norvik Press, forthcoming 2006
• ' "En usynlig krop”: Transgressing the Boundaries of the Body in Vibeke Grønfeldt’s Mulighedernes land and I dag’, in Forsås-Scott, H. (ed.): Gender, Power, Text. Scandinavian Culture in the Twentieth Century. Norvik Press, Norwich. More ...
• ' "Slainte, I goes and he says his word": Morvern Callar Undergoes the Trial of the Foreign', in Language and Literature 13:1, January 2004
• Separate biblio-biographical articles on N.F.S.Grundtvig, B.S.Ingemann, A.Oehlenschläger, F.Paludan-Müller and Romantic Nationalism, in Murray, C.J. (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, Fitzroy Dearborn, New York, 2003
• ' "Vi æder vores eget lort": Scatology and Eschatology in Peter Høeg's Forestilling om det tyvende århundrede' in Scandinavica 41:1, May 2002
• ' "My Water of Leith Runs Through a Double City": Cityscape and Mindscape in the Poetry of Norman MacCaig and Klaus Rifbjerg' in Northern Studies: The Journal of the Scottish Society for Northern Studies 34, 1999

Papers and presentations

• 'Mother / Nature: Body and Wilderness in Carl Th. Dreyer's Ordet and Lars von Trier's Medea'. UCL Scandinavian Studies Research Seminar, 13 December 2006.
• 'Beyond the Heath, Beyond the Human: The Hybrid Cartographies of Blicher, Brixvold et al.' International Association for Scandinavian Studies: Borders in Nordic Literature. Åbo Akademi, Finland, 7-12 August 2006
• "One-Third God, One-Third Animal, and One-Third Human": Peter Høeg's Posthuman Bodies.' Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies. Oxford, University of Mississippi, 4-6 May 2006
• 'Corridors of State: Migrational Bodies, Buildings and Nations in Ali Smith's Hotel World and Lena Andersson's Du är alltså svensk?' Invited Comparative Literature Research Seminar, University of Edinburgh, 16 March 2006
• 'Sculptures and Cyborgs: Mapping the Body Across Languages'
  Invited Translation Studies Seminar, University of East Anglia, 8 February 2006
• 'Photography, Nationness and Narrative'.
  Paper presented at the conference Multimodal Texts: Engaging Sign Systems. University of Portsmouth, 21-22 October 2005
• 'Material Resistance: Practices of Writing and Reading (in) an Occupied Nation.'
  Paper presented at the conference Material Cultures and the Creation of Knowledge, University of Edinburgh, 22-24 July 2005
• 'The Tale-End of History: Historiography, Literary Form, and the Danish (Post)national Imagination.'
  Paper presented at the symposium Discourse, Identity and Politics in Europe, University College London, 16 April 200
• ‘A Land of Machines: Technology and Otherness in Some Tales by H C Andersen.'
  Paper presented at the symposium Connecting Cultures. The International Hans Christian Andersen. University of Edinburgh, 11-12 March 2005
• ‘Out of Intertext: Mappings and Memories in the Fiction of Karen Blixen and Peter Høeg’, UCL/SOAS AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures.
  School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, 21 February 2005
• ‘The Most Photographed Town Hall in Ulfborg-Vemb: Fabrications of Space, Sovereignty and Narrative in a Small Nation’,UCL Mellon Seminar Series: Identities and Culture in Europe.
  UCL, October 2004
• 'Fra fællesskab til fælles rum: Andethed betragtet som et rumligt problem i 1990ernes Danmarkshistorier’ [From community to common space: otherness as a spatial problem in Danish historiographical novels of the 1990s]. Plenary lecture, Andethedsforestillinger i moderne nordisk litteratur [Representations of otherness in contemporary Nordic literature]
  University of Vilnius, Lithuania, November 2003
• ‘ “She Who Hangs Out in Cemeteries”: A Heterotopology of the Buffyverse’, Blood, Text and Fears. Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  UEA, October 2002
• ‘Blethers and Clypes: Can Scots Translate Heteroglossia?’, British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School
  Girton College, Cambridge, July 2002
• ‘ Fishwives and Schoolboys: Danish History Told From the Margins’, Gender, Power, Text. Scandinavian Culture in the Twentieth Century
  UCL, June 2002
• Stille eksistenser: Silence, Language and Landscape in Grønfeldt, Greig and Warner’,Centring on the Peripheries
  University of Edinburgh, March 2002
• ‘Jarring Witnesses: Translating Danish History’, European Studies Research Institute
  University of Salford, March 2002
• ‘ “Otherside”: Morvern Callar in Danish and Swedish Translation’, British Centre for Literary Translation Research Seminar
  December 2001
• ‘Re-cycling the Century: Baudrillard's L'Illusion de la fin and Høeg's Forestilling om det tyvende århundrede’, UK Nordic Literature Group,
  UEA, November 2001
• ‘Absolute Space: Mapping and Memory in Fridriksson’s Cold Fever and August’s Smilla's Feeling for Snow’, Film and TV Studies Research Seminar
  UEA, October 2001
• ‘City and World in the novels of Peter Høeg and Peer Hultberg’, UK Nordic Literature Group
  UCL, March 1999
• ‘Danish Literature: Still Out in the Cold? Miss Smilla as a Foreignising Translation’, Beyond Boundaries II: New Europe - Pan-Europe? European Studies Research Institute
  University of Salford, February 1999

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