Johnny Kondrup

CV

Education

• DPhil (dr.phil.), Faculty of Humanities, University of Odense 1994.
• PhD (lic.phil.) in Scandivian Philology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen 1985.
• Teaching Credential (pædagogikum) at Haderslev Cathedral School 1982.
• Awarded the university’s academic gold medal 1981.
• MA (mag.art.) in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Humanities, University of Odense 1981.

Positions Held

• Full Professor of Scandinavian Literatures, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen 2012-26.
• Head of the digital edition of N.F.S. Grundtvig’s Complete Works, Faculty of Theology, University of Aarhus, 2010-13.
• Associate Professor of Danish Literature, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, 1998-2012.
• Associate Research Professor and head of the critical work on Søren Kierkegaard’s Skrifter, The Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, 1993-98.
• Research Council Fellow at Nordic Institute, University of Odense, 1989-91 and 1993.
• Research Council Fellow at Nordic Institute, University of Odense, 1989-91 and 1993.
  Research Fellow at the Department of Nordic Philology, University of Copenhagen, 1982-85.

Other

• Member of the Society for Publication of Sources of Danish History since 2022.
• Member of the editorial board of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories: The Digital Manuscript Edition (University of Southern Denmark) since 2017.
• Member of the Society for Norwegian Language and Literature since 2016.
• Member of the editorial board of Samlaren (journal issued by The Swedish Society for Literature) since 2013.
• Member of the board of "Landsdommer V. Gieses Legat" since 2008, chairman 2021.
• Member of the Norwegian Academy for Science and Letters since 2005.
• Member of the governing body of Henrik Ibsens Skrifter, The Norwegian Research Council and The University of Oslo, 1998-2009.
• Founder of the Nordic Network for Textual Scholarship (Nordisk Netværk for Editionsfilologer, www.nnedit.org) and member of the governing body 1995-2015.
• Member of the Society for Danish Language and Literature since 1990. Member of the board since 2020, chairman 2021-26.

Short presentation

My current research runs along two lines:
One is the concept of text. As a result of my previous research in textual scholarship, I have become increasingly interested in the most elementary questions, not only of this discipline, but of literary studies and many of the other humanities fields as well: What is a text? What makes a text (or a cluster of texts) into a work? Driven by a theoretical urge to understand the ontology of the concepts ‘text’ and ‘work’, which we all use, but seldom define, I explore different usages of these terms in literary theory and textual scholarship, and try to judge them critically by their merits.

The other line of research concerns the Dansih Golden Age, i.e. the period from approx. 1800 to 1870. Earlier, this period was much discussed, not least with respect to its basic philosophy of life: Was it monistic, optimistically dualistic or dualistic without restraint? Was a timid 'Biedermeier' the main current of the culture, or did they investigate the abyss of the mind and the empty universe? I try to catch up upon these discussions and to find some patterns in the diversity.

Primary fields of research

• Danish literature from circa 1800 to 1960.
• Biography as a genre and biographical methods. Autobiography and memoirs.
• Textual Scholarship (textual criticism, variants, commentary, digital editing etc.).
• The History of Editing.
• Co-editor of Søren Kierkegaard’s Writings (Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter), see: http://sks.dk/forside/skr.asp
• Co-editor of N.F.S. Grundtvig’s Works (N.F.S. Grundtvigs Værker), see: http://www.grundtvigsværker.dk

Introductory remarks on publicationslist

Listen omfatter ikke publikationer fra tiden 1979-1997.