Primary fields of research

* Digital film and media culture research: The cultural and social significance of celebrity culture and social media with focus on climate. Film and television as storytelling and a cultural forum for online engagement.

CELEBRITY CULTURE: I focus on celebrity culture and the cultural and social significance and impact with focus on aestehtics and genres in the idgital media culture. 

DIGITAL FILM AND MEDIA CULTURE: My research also focus on contemporary film and tv-drama, the aesthetics and genre, and how they work as a cultural forum online.

My research areas include the following topics:

• Celebrityculture and the cultural and social meaning and impact 
• Film and tv-drama as a cultural forum online
• Celebrities and influencers as role models on social media 
• Social media – aesthetics  and popular culture
• Complex media fictions (film and tv-drama) in the digital media culture
• Media aesthetics in the digital media culture
• Portrait documentary as genres

Current research:

I am chair of the research group: Media Culture and Media Use (MeMe) at NorS.

Celebrity culture and activism on Instagram: I study how politicians, infleuncers and activistst communicate climate, culture and politics on social media with focus on visual aestehtcis and genres, authenticity and presentation of self.  

Film and TV-drama serier in the digital film and media culture: A study of how media fictions can be understood as a cultural forum in dialogue with social media, digital communities and and live media events.

Ongoing project and networks: 

European Zone of Cinema & Television Culture (2024): Co-PI's: Helle Kannik Haastrup & Anders Marklund, University of Lund. (Funding: CEMES).

Digital Identities  & Personal Narratives (2024) PI: Helle Kannik Haastrup. (Funding: Queen Mary's Centre)

Nordic Celebrity Studies Network (2016-) Co-founder and co-chair of this Nordic research network investigating celebrity culture in culture and politics in Nordic cultural and social contexts. 

CV

Education

2024 Leading Research - Autumn B/2024 (University of Copenhagen )

2024 Research Project Management and Leadership - Module 1 (University of Copenhagen)

2013 Education Management Course: (Module 1+ 2 (University of Roskilde)

2011 Head of Studies Management Course (CBS + University of Southern Denmark)

2009 Project Manager Course (Implement, University of Copenhagen)

2005 Ph.D. at the Depart. of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen.

1994 MA (Cand. Mag.) in Nordic Studies & Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen

Employment

2014 - Associate Professor, Dept. of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Copenhagen University

2009 - 2014 Associate Professor, Dept. of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University

2009 - 2011 2 year Post Doc. Financed by the Danish Research Council: Celebrity Culture- from Hollywood to Facebook

2008 - 2009 Assistant Professorship cont. (February -January 2009)

2007 - 2008 1 year Post Doc financed by Danish Research Council: A Question of Charater – intertextuality and engagement in computer games. (February – January)

2005 Ph.D. with the thesis : The Joy of Recognition – intertextuality and film at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen

2004 - 2007 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Media, Cognition & Communication, University of Copenhagen. (February 2004- January 2007)

2003 - 2004  Amanuensis, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication.(February -January)

2000 - 2003  Part-time lecturer, Department of Film and Media Studies (September- January)

1998 Visiting Scholar at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

1996 - 2000 Ph.D.-fellow at the Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen.

1995 Teaching Assistant at the Department for Nordic Studies, University of Copenhagen

1995 Teaching Assistant Department at the Centre for Cross-Aesthetic Studies. Aarhus University.

Management, administrative, editorial, assessment etc. experience

2015 Co-organizer of International Conference European Cinema – Intercultural Meetings, University of Copenhagen

2015 Member of the advisory board of the journal Kino – International Journal of Film and Media Arts

2013 Co-organizer of European Film Cultures: An International Conference. Interim ECREA conference, 8-9 November, Lund University

2013 - External examiner, University of Southern Denmark

2012 - Chair for Film Studies Section, ECREA

2011- 2014 Head of studies, Department of Culture and Identity (Danish Section)

2010 - 2012 Boardmember of The Association of Danish Media Researchers (SMID)

2009 Member of assessment committees at University of Aalborg

2010- External examiner, University of Copenhagen.

2001- Peer reviewer and on advisory board for Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Kosmorama, peer reviewer for Akademisk Kvarter and Aalborg University Press.

Teaching

• Social media – aesthetics and communication (climate, cultur, politics)
• Digital genres and qualitative digital methods
• Film and media aesthetics
• Media culture analysis
• Transmedia theory and analysis
• Media fictions - theory and analysis
• Factual mediagenres – theory and analysis
• Celebrityculture and digital media
• Popular culture and social media
• Star studies