Primære forskningsområder

Narrativ medicin, medicinsk humaniora, sundhedshumaniora
PI i projektet Narrativ medicin: Tværfaglig forskning og undervisning.

Arkiver og genetisk kritik, narratologi

Modernisme og samtidens litteratur 

Aktuel forskning

My current research has been focused on the interdisciplinary field of narrative medicine, integrating literary studies with healthcare to enhance patient care and medical education. As Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, I have led and contributed to several major projects, including interventions for chronically ill people and liver patients through creative writing, and as Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen I have expanded my scope to fertility treatment and psychiatry. 

After writing two monographs on modern Danish literature (2012, 2018), I have co-edited international anthologies such as Narrative Medicine in Education, Practice, and Interventions (2022) and Narrative Medicine: Trauma and Ethics (2024), both with forewords by leading scholars in the field.

My forthcoming monograph on postcritical medical humanities will conceptualise a new direction for the field and explore Scandinavian literary representations of illness across three centuries combined in combination with chapters on the therapeutic potential of creative writing with patients or vulnerable people and the empathetic value of narrative medicine courses in medical education.

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Experience of teaching in narrative medicine and health humanities

Master’s level

1. Elective course (15 ECTS) “Literature, language and health”. University of Copenhagen.
2. Elective course (15 ECTS). “Literature and health”. University of Copenhagen.
3. Elective course (10 ECTS). “Narrative medicine”. University of Southern Denmark.

2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022. Elective course (5 ECTS). “Narrative medicine” in health professional’s master program. University of Southern Denmark.

2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025. Guest teaching in narrative medicine on the elective course “Gerontology” in medical education. University of Copenhagen.

2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025. Guest teaching in narrative medicine on the elective course “Ethical dilemmas in the clinic” in medical education. University of Copenhagen.

Bachelor’s level

2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022. Mandatory course (2 ECTS). “Narrative medicine” in medical education. University of Southern Denmark.

Experience of teaching in Danish literature

Master’s level

1. Elective course (15 ECTS). “Empathy, affect, archive”. Danish. University of Copenhagen.
2. Elective course (15 ECTS). “Modernism, the novel, fiction”. University of Copenhagen.
3. Elective course (15 ECTS). “The new novel in modernism”. University of Copenhagen.

Bachelor’s level

2024, 2025. Mandatory course (15 ECTS). “Modern literary history”. University of Copenhagen.

1. Mandatory course (15 ECTS). “Pre-Modern literary history”. University of Copenhagen.
2. Mandatory course (15 ECTS). “Pre-Modern literary history”. University of Copenhagen.
3. Mandatory course (15 ECTS). ”Literary Analysis”. University of Copenhagen.

Interesseområder

Educational development work

2024-. Leadership of a collective package on Health Humanities offered for bachelor students in the humanities (45 ECTS) in collaboration with Professor Astrid Pernille Jespersen (etnology), Professor Dan Zahavi (philosophy) and Professor Martha Karrebæk (language). University of Copenhagen.

2024-. Co-leadership of a mandatory course in medical education on clinical ethical dilemmas in collaboration with Professor, MD, Michael Kjær, Associate Professor, MD, Camilla Fjord Thomsen and MD, Jonas Lunen. University of Copenhagen.

CV

Employments

1.8.2023-. Associate Professor in Danish literature, Department for Nordic Studies and Linguistic, University of Copenhagen.

2019-2023. Associate Professor of narrative medicine, Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

2016-2019. Assistant Professor of narrative medicine, Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

2012-2016. Postdoc, Department for Nordic Studies and Linguistic, University of Copenhagen.

2008-2011. PhD-student, Department for Nordic Studies and Linguistic, University of Copenhagen.

Kort præsentation

From 2017 to 2022, I conducted research and taught in the field of narrative medicine at the University of Southern Denmark. Since 2023, I have been Associate Professor of Danish Literature at the University of Copenhagen with research interest in narrative medicine and health humanities.