CV

Education

2011-2014 : Master in Foreign Language Acquisition, Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen.

2009: Lectureship studies, Faculty of Humanities, The University of Copenhagen.

2008-: Studies in Italian, Studieskolen, Copenhagen (levels 1-6).

2007: PhD in French linguistics, Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen. Dissertation: Etude des modes dans le système concessif en français du 16e au 20e siècle et en espagnol moderne. Evolution, assertion et grammaticalisation.

2005: 7 months research stay at: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, UMR-ICAR. Lettres et Sciences Humaines, France.

2003: Masters Degree in French and Spanish at the University of Copenhagen.

2001: Minor-subject: Spanish, University of Copenhagen.

2000: Stay at Universidad Complutense, Madrid.

1999: Bachelor of French with Spanish, University of Copenhagen.

1995-1996: Language school, Paris, Alliance Française.

1995: A-levels at Vestre Borgerdyd Gymnasium, Copenhagen.

Employment

2014-: Member of the French corps of examiners of higher education (professionshøjskole). 

2013-: Associate Professor in French Linguistics at Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen.

2010-: Member of the French university corps of examiners. 

2008-2013: Post.doc. at Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen. Scholarship from Carlsbergfondet in order to see through the project: Sprogforandringsscenarier i romanske sprog [language change scenarios in Romance languages].

2008-2013: Teaching and exam experience in French at Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen (Subjects: Grammar Module V, Written knowledge dissemination and translation (Danish-French) BA-level, Project supervision.

2007-2008: Substitute teacher in French and Spanish at Rungsted Gymnasium.

2007-2008: External lecturer in French at Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen (subjects: Grammar Modules I, II and III, Grammar and linguistics, BA-level, Project supervision).

2006: Consultant for the book Ny spansk grammatik by Kjær Jensen (Akademisk Forlag, april 2008).

2004-2008: Teaching assistant in French and Spanish, including examinations at  Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen (subjects: Linguistics, Masters Degree level, Grammar Modules I and III, BA-level).

2004-2007: PhD scholarship at Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen.

2003-2004: Teacher of French at Studieskolen/Folkeuniversitetet in Roskilde.

2002-2004: Academic assistant/editor at Museum Tusculanum Press.

2000-2004: Teacher of French and Spanish at Gentofte Dag- og Aftenkursus. All levels.

2000: Teaching Assistant in French culture and history of ideas at the Department for Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen. 2 semesters.

1997: Assistent for Associate Professor, PhD Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, Department for Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Scientific and administrative experience

2008-2009: Coordinator for the 7^th and 8^th Francophone Day (VII/VIIIe Journée de la francophonie), Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen/The Francophone Embassies of Denmark.

2006-: Member of the network for linguistic variation and language change, Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen.

2006: Member of the innovation committee, Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen.

2006-: Member of Det Nationale Netværk i Grammatik (Initiated by Statens Humanistiske Forskningsråd).

2005-: Member of the international network for diachronic studies in French (DIACHRO).

2004-2006: Deputy Member of the department board at Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen.  

2004-: Member of Det Danske Grammatikaliseringsnetværk.

Prizes

Elected Årets underviser 2008 [educator of the year] at Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Current research

Orality in French in the transition between primary, secondary and tertiary education.

Academic writing in French with special emphasis on the interface between upper secondary and tertiary education.

Acquisition of informal French.

The relation between written and oral communication in French.

Language changes within the tense and aspect system in French, Spanish and Italian with emphasis on the mutual alternation of future and past tenses.

Knowledge of languages

Fields of interest

- All mentioned research and teaching areas.
- Francophony.
- The status of foreign languages in Denmark.
- Research and Educational Policy. 

Teaching

Teaching
- French Grammar
- Linguistics
- Translation French-Danish
- Translation Danish-French
- French Written Communication
- French Phonetics and Phonology
- Text Linguistics
- Linguistic Optional Subject 
- Linguistic Subjects (Mood and Modality within Romance Languages; Language Change)
- Second Language Acquisition

Supervision
- All linguistic areas of French, preferably (but not necessarily) with a comparative aspect to other Romance languages and/or to Danish. 
- French Grammar (i.e. Mood, Tense, Aspect, Infinite Verbs, Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Determinatives, Negations, Topology, etc.).
- Linguistics, especially Pragmatics and Language Variation, including Language Change and Grammaticalization.
- Translation and Translation Theory (French-Danish; Danish-French).
- Second Language Acquisition

Office hours: Monday 9-10

Primary fields of research

- French Grammar and Linguistics.
- Mood and Modality.
- Tense.
- Aspect.
- Language Change within Romance Languages.
- Grammaticalization.
- Variational Linguistics.
- Methods on collecting data from huge electronic corpora.
- Academic writing

Short presentation

Jeg forsker i fransk grammatik og lingvistik i både et synkront og diakront perspektiv. Min hovedvægt ligger på verbalsyntaksen, navnlig tempus, modus og aspekt. Jeg interesserer mig for, hvorfor og hvordan sprog forandrer sig og er bl.a. optaget af, hvorfor generisk beslægtede sprog, som f.eks. de romanske, udvikler sig med forskellig hastighed i forhold til deres fælles udgangspunkt, latin. 
Jeg forsker også i fremmedsprogspædagogik og -tilegnelse med særligt fokus på skriftlighed og mundtlighed i franskfaget i et brobygningsperspektiv. Herudover interesserer jeg mig for tilegnelse af uformel sprogbrug og for interkulturel kommunikativ kompetence. 
Jeg underviser i alle sprogrelaterede emner på franskfaget, dvs. fransk grammatik, sprogvariation, sprogforandring, oversættelse dansk-fransk og fransk-dansk, skriftlig formidling/akademisk argumentation, fonetik og fonologi.

Herudover underviser jeg i en tværfaglige forløb på Instituttet, bl.a. fremmedsprogs- og kulturdidaktik og oversættelse og formidling. Derudover vejleder jeg BA-projekter, specialer og emneopgaver om alt inden for sprog, didaktik og oversættelse, både teoretisk og anvendelsesorienteret. 

Min pædagogiske tilgang til undervisning bygger på en inkluderende og anerkendende tilgang. Jeg lægger vægt på en dialogbaseret undervisningsform, hvor alle deltagere skal have mulighed for at udfolde sig.