Lektor i tysk med forskning i tysk-danske kulturhistoriske relationer, også i et erindringskulturelt perspektiv. Arbejder desuden med tysk samtids- og migrationslitteratur samt økokritik.

Et andet fokusområde er fremmedsprogstilegnelse og tysk i det danske samfund og uddannelsessystem.

Aktuelt: leder DFF-projektet "Dansk-tyske kulturer 1773-1864. Konflikt og sammenhæng": https://engerom.ku.dk/english/research/danish-german-cultures/

• Dansk-tyske kulturelle relationer, erindringskultur, transfer (især 1750-1900),
• Transkulturelle og tosprogede forfatterskaber, migrationslitteratur
• Kvinder i kulturhistorien
• Oplysningstid, romantik
• Sprog og tysk som kulturhistorie
• Økolitteratur og økokritik

Tysk litteratur og kulturhistorie fra 18. århundrede til i dag, dansk-tyske relationer, transnational litteratur & migrationsforfattere, kvindelige forfattere og feminisme, erindringskultur, vidne- og holocaustlitteratur,  økolitteratur & øko-kritik, oversættelsesstudier,  fremmedsprogsdidaktik.

Employment, Positions, and Fellowships

• Since 2014 Associate Professor of German Literature, Department for English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen

• Chairperson of the Academic Council, Faculty of Humanities

• 2014-2023:Head of Section: German Studies

• Fall 2018-2019: Visiting Professor University of Kiel (CAU)

• Fall 2016  Visiting Professor UC Berkeley

• 2012-14  Assistant Professor of German Literature, University of Copenhagen

• Spring 2010  Combined Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

• 2009-12  Postdoc (funded by the Carlsberg Foundation), University of Copenhagen

• 2008-09 Administrative Officer, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

• 2005 Visiting Fellow, Albert-Ludwigs- Universität, Freiburg, Germany

• 2003-2008  PhD Scholarship (funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research), University of Copenhagen

• 2000-2002  High school Teacher at Aurehøj Gymnasium, Copenhagen

Education

• 2008   Ph.D, University of Copenhagen

• 2001   Professional postgraduate teacher training for high school teachers (Gl. Hellerup Gymnasium and Rysensteen Gymnasium, Copenhagen).

• 2000   Master of Arts, German and Danish, University of Copenhagen. Studies abroad: Spring 1995: Berlin (Humboldt Universität), Fall 1998: Kiel (Christian-Albrechts-Universität).

Grants and Funding

• 2022-2023   Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship

• 2009    2 years Postdoc grant from the Carlsberg Foundation

• 2003   3 years PhD grant funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research (FKK).

Editorial acitivites and other professional contributions

• From 2019 Co-editor of Nordeuropa Forum, Zeitschrift für Kulturstudien. Open Access Journal at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Sprogforum. Tidsskrift for sprog- og kulturpædagogik
• Reviewer for the journals: European Journal of Scandinavian Studies, Danske Studier, Passage. Tidsskrift for litteratur og kritik, Sjuttonhundratal. Nordic Yearbook for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

• Co-founder and co-editor (2012-2020) of Romantik. Journal for the Study of the Romanticisms, Aarhus University Press,now Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Memberships & Honorary Positions

• 2014-2022: Appointed member of the Board of Danish Lecturers abroad (Lektoratsudvalget, ansvarlig for den tysksprogede region), appointed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science.
• Appointed member of Advisory Board for German & Language Education (Fagligt Forum) in the Danish Ministry of Education
• Elected Member of Academic Council, UCPH Faculty of Humanities
• Member of steering committee CEMES (Centre for Modern European Studies) at The University of Copenhagen
• Board member of The Danish-German Society (Dansk-Tysk Selskab)

• Board Member of Universitets-Jubilæets Danske Samfund (UJDS)

• 2012-22: Board member of the Nordic Association of Romantic Studies (NARS)
• Board member of the German Studies Alumnus Institution at UCPH.

• 2014-2019: Head of Study for the section of Cultural History at the Danish University Extension Copenhagen (Folkeuniversitetet København).
  
  

Books, edited books & journal:

• En grænsegænger mellem oplysning og romantik. Jens Baggesens tyske forfatterskab. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 2015

• With Torben Jelsbak (ed): Dansk-tyske krige. Kulturliv og kulturkampe, U Press 2020

• With Karin Hoff & Udo Schöning (ed.): Literarische Transnationalität. Die kulturellen Dreiecksbeziehungen zwischen Skandinavien, Frankreich und Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2015.

• With Adam Paulsen (ed.) Natur und Moderne um 1900. Räume, Repräsentation, Medien. Transcript Verlag, Edition Kulturwissenschaft 2013

• With Detlef Siegfried (ed.): Tysk kulturhistorie fra 1648 til i dag. Gyldendal 2012.

• With Svend Skriver (ed.): Jens Baggesens liv og værk, Forlaget Spring 2010.

• Journal:

• Co-editor of Nordeuropa Forum, Zeitschrift für Kulturstudien. Open Access Journal at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

• 2012-2020: Co-Editor of:  Romantik. Journal for the Study of the Romanticisms, Aarhus University Press, from 2017 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht