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Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen

  • Lecturer in Scandinavian Literature

    Email: j.stougaard-nielsen@ucl.ac.uk

  • Phone: +44(0)207 679 3178; Internal: 33178

  • Skype id.: jakobsn

    Office: 17 Gordon Square, room 202

  • Office hours: Thursdays 11-1pm
Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen

Research interests and activities

My research falls within the fields of Scandinavian and Comparative Literature. I have published studies in World Literature, Book History, Discourse Technologies, (Cultural) Memory and Digital Culture, Hans Christian Andersen and Henry James. I am interested in the inter-dependence of literature and materiality - how publication formats, print cultures and visual cultures make literature 'matter'. I have published research on Hans Christian Andersen's tales in illustrated magazines; Henry James's New York Edition author portrait; Memorial culture in Second Life; Digital archives and cultural heritage (Visit My publications).

My courses

Past courses and seminars
  • CLITG002: Practice and Methodology of Comparative Literature: seminar on "The Spectacle of the Nineteenth Century City" (PowerPoint)
  • CLITG001: Modern Literary Theory: seminars on "Theories of the Text" and "Textual Scholarship and the Book".
  • CLITG004 - Memory and Literature in a Globalised Culture (Spring 2009/2010). Visit the tutor's blog.


Curriculum Vitae

2010-2012: SELCS Undergraduate Tutor

2010 - : Lecturer in Scandinavian Literature, Scandinavian Studies, SELCS, UCL

2007-2010: UCL Teaching Fellow in Danish, Scandinavian Studies

2007: PhD, Department of Language, Literature and Culture, Aarhus University

2006: Visiting research student at the UCL Department of English

2001-2004: Visiting Lecturer in Danish at the Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington

2000-2001: Lecturer in Danish at Holbaek Teacher's College.

1999: Amanuensis in Comparative Literature at Aarhus University

1998: MA (cand.mag.) in Comparative Literature and English from University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University

1996-1997: Fulbright Fellow at University of Illinois, Chicago

1995: BA in Comparative Literature, Aarhus University

Contributions to Teaching & Learning

  • "Danishness, Cosmopolitanism and Democratic Citizenship in Danish Language Learning Materials", in Ros i Solé, Cristina and Jane Fenoulhet (eds.), Mobility and Localisation in Language Learning. Peter Lang, 2010.
  • 2010: UCL TILT conference presentation: "Teaching Comparative Literature in a Virtual and Transnational Classroom" (with Prof. Svend Erik Larsen). View Lecturecast (beginning with slide 33).
  • 2010: Literacies and Learning - UCL Teaching & Learning Network presentation: "Blogging Comparative Literature"
  • 2009: UCL Provost's Teaching Award
  • 2009: "Multilingualism  and Cosmopolitan Citizenship in Europe: Challenges and  directions in teaching and learning less commonly taught languages". Multilingualism: Policy, Practice and Teaching, Jean Monnet Lecture at Università degli Studi di Catania. (See slides)
  • 2009: CETL-LWW grant for the project: Resources for Teaching Scandinavian Languages in the Digital Classroom.
  • 2009: Lecture and workshop on 'Teaching in a Virtual Learning Environment' and 'Mobile Learning' at the Danish High-school Teachers' meeting "IT i Undervisningen - nye ressourcer"

Public Engagement and Knowledge Transfer