Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
CV
2010 PhD Scandinavian Literature
2006 MA Danish and German
Primary fields of research
17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century literature.
For the time being: Scandinavian Modernism / 'The modern breakthrough' and Georg Brandes.
Fields of interest
Literary & cultural history
The history of the book and the sociology of literature
DH, Digital literary studies, AI
Current research
My current research revolves around a digital exploration of the Modern Breakthrough in Scandinavia in an interdisciplinary framework between literature, language and computer science. This involves the development of statistical and computational methods for text reading and, not least, a discussion of their relevance and scope.
I am currently involved in the following research projects
- PI – Measuring Modernity (2020-24, funding: The Carlsberg Foundation) https://nors.ku.dk/english/research/projects/measuring-modernity/
- Co-PI (w. Daniel Herschcovich, DiKu) – Mining the Meaning (2022-25, funding: The Data+ Initiative) https://mime-memo.github.io/
Teaching
Danish and Scandinavian literature, old and new
Teaching
Teaching and supervision in literary history, modern literature and literary theory in the Danish program.
Research output
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Dying or Departing? Euphemism Detection for Death Discourse in Historical Texts
Al-Laith, A. M. A., Conroy, A., Bjerring-Hansen, J., Pedersen, B. S., Levisen, C. & Hershcovich, D., 2025, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Rambow, O., Wanner, L., Apidianaki, M., Al-Khalifa, H., Di Eugenio, B. & Schockaert, S. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vol. January. p. 1353–1364 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Unhappy Texts? A Gendered and Computational Rereading of The Modern Breakthrough
Degn, K. N., Bjerring-Hansen, J., Al-Laith, A. M. A. & Hershcovich, D., 2025, In: Scandinavian Studies. 97, 1, 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Development and Evaluation of Pre-trained Language Models for Historical Danish and Norwegian Literary Texts
Al-Laith, A., Conroy, A., Bjerring-Hansen, J. & Hershcovich, D., 2024, Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). Calzolari, N., Kan, M-Y., Hoste, V., Lenci, A., Sakti, S. & Xue, N. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 4811-4819Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Georg Brandes: A Pioneer of Comparative Literature and a Global Public Intellectual
Bjerring-Hansen, J. (ed.), Engberg-Pedersen, A. (ed.) & Kjældgaard, L. H. (ed.), 2024, Leiden: Brill. 351 p. (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Series, Vol. 213).Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
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Introduction: A Master of Productive Criticism
Bjerring-Hansen, J., Engberg-Pedersen, A. & Kjældgaard, L. H., 2024, Georg Brandes: A pioneer of comparative literature and a global public intellectual. Bjerring-Hansen, J., Engberg-Pedersen, A. & Kjældgaard, L. H. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, 17 p. (Internationale Forschungen zur allegemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Vol. 213).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Literary Time Travel: Distinguishing Past and Contemporary Worlds in Danish and Norwegian Fiction
Bjerring-Hansen, J., Al-Laith, A. M. A., Rasmussen, S. Ø., Hershcovich, D. & Conroy, A., 2024, Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2024 (CHR 2024). CEUR-WS.org, p. 772-787 16 p. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3834).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Noise, Novels, Numbers: A Framework for Detecting and Categorizing Noise in Danish and Norwegian Literature
Al-Laith, A. M. A., Bjerring-Hansen, J., Hershcovich, D., Parby, J. I., Tangherlini, T. & Conroy, A., 2024, Proceedings of The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 3344–3354 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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‘The Universal Struggle for World Renown’: Georg Brandes’ Global Literary Strategies
Bjerring-Hansen, J., 2024, Georg Brandes: Comparative Literature Pioneer and Global Public Intellectual. Bjerring-Hansen, J., Engberg-Pedersen, A. & L. H. K. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 260-279 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Activities
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“Why the hell not?” Om litteraturhistoriske læsemåder
Jens Bjerring-Hansen (Other)
16 Nov 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Eighteenth Century Research Forum (ECRF) (External organisation)
Jens Bjerring-Hansen (Member)
15 Aug 2023 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership in research network
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Unhappy texts? A quantitative and gendered re-assessment of The Modern Breakthrough
Jens Bjerring-Hansen (Speaker) & Kirstine Nielsen Degn (Speaker)
2 Aug 2023 → 5 Aug 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitet i Bergen
Jens Bjerring-Hansen (Participant)
1 Aug 2023 → 31 Jul 2024Activity: Other activity types › Other (prizes, external teaching and other activities) - Period visiting other institutions
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Gæsteforelæsning: Georg Brandes: Comparative Literature Pioneer and Global Public Intellectual
Jens Bjerring-Hansen (Invited speaker)
27 Apr 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Gæsteforelæsning, Brigham Young University: Measuring Modernity
Jens Bjerring-Hansen (Invited speaker)
20 Mar 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Gæsteforelæsning, UC Berkeley: Making Sense of 900 Novels
Jens Bjerring-Hansen (Invited speaker)
4 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Advisory Board Member, NORN - Norwegian Romantic Nationalisms (ERC)
Jens Bjerring-Hansen (Advisor)
1 Jan 2023 → 31 Dec 2027Activity: Consultancy types › Consultancy
Press/Media
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Interview om digitalisering af kulturarven (Kr. Dagblad)
09/06/2016
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media