Kort præsentation

PRIMÆRE FORSKNIGSOMRÅDER 

• Amerikansk litteratur og kultur
• Litteratur fra det 19. til 20. århundrede 
• Visuel kultur
• Arkivstudier og digitale humaniora
• Køn og seksualitet

AKTUEL FORSKNING 

• Monographie projekt: Fair Copy: Gender, Originality, and the Making of American Literature (under contract, University of Massachusetts Press, Series: Becoming Modern: Studies in the Long 19C) . Projektet beskæftiger sig med køn og originalitet i amerikansk litteratur fra 1800 tallet, og er blevet støttet af forskningsmidler fra the American Antiquarian Society, the Maine Women Writers Collection, og the British Library. 
• Monograph project (research stage): Jacob Riis, Documentary Photography, and the Image-Text. Supported by Novo Nordisk. Investigates Riis's imagetexts in the context of the urban reform movement, biopolitics, and immigration in New York at the turn of the last century. 

KURSER PÅ KØBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET

BA

• Kulturtheori
• Den Moderne Kulturs Historie
• Visual Culture and Literary Studies 
• Engelsk-Sproget Litteratur II efter 1800
• Literatures of the Environment: Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene
• Tekstanalyse
• Intro to American Studies (fælles undervisning)
• American Literary History in the Contemporary World
• Akademisk Formidling (AFOM)
• Introduction to American Literature (fælles undervisning)

KA

• Transnational Literatures of Travel, Exchange, and Immigration
• Nineteenth-Century American Writers in the Digital World

ANDRE INTERRESSEOMRÅDER 

• Samtidslitteratur
• Poesi
• Dansk-amerikanske litterære forbindelser 

CV

2020-2022, Mads Øvilsen Fellow, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.

2014-2019 Assistant Professor, Department of English, German and Romance Languages, University of Copenhagen.

2013-2014

Postdoctoral Fellow, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), A.S. Williams III Americana Collection, The University of Alabama.

EDUCATION

2012

Ph.D. English Language and Literature. University of Michigan. Dissertation: “The Culture of Ekphrasis in America’s Age of Print, 1830-1880." Committee: Kerry Larson (chair), Sara Blair, Julie Ellison, and Yopie Prins.           

2006

M.A. English Language and Literature. University of Michigan. Exam fields: 19C American Literature and Critical Theory; 20C American Literature and Critical Theory; Visual Culture.                      

2004

B.A. Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Majors: English Language and Literature; Studio Art. Minor: French.                         

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

American literature, 19C/20C, transnationalism, gender studies, visual and material culture, archival theory.