Dorthe Duncker

Education

2019, dr.phil.

2000, PhD

1992, MA in Danish language and Computational linguistics

Occupation

Since 1994 employed at The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen:

2021-, Professor (full)

2003-2021, Associate professor (Deputy head of department, 2015-2017)

1999-2003, Assistant professor

1995-1999, Postgraduate scholar

1994-1995, External lecturer

1989-1993, full-time computational linguist (private sector).

My primary research areas are Danish language (from the Renaissance to the present), digital humanities (digital textual scholarship, corpus linguistics), and material/artefactual philology. My research focuses on foundational aspects of communication and the reflexivity and dynamics of language, in particular with a focus on sign making and contextualization in written communication and on the semiology of writing, including material aspects of reading and writing.

Danish Under Digital Study (DUDS) with Anne Mette Hansen. DUDS is a research site appealing to university students, high school undergraduates, researchers, and people generally interested in language and old Danish texts.

Teaching (all university levels) Danish language (old and modern), language theory, digital textual scholarship, computational philology.