Marianne Stidsen

Born 1962 in Virum.

Education

• 2015 DPhil (dr.phil.), University of Copenhagen
• 1995 MA (mag.art), Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen

Employment

• 2000 Associate Professor, Dept. of Nordic Studies and Linguistics
• 1997-2000 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Nordic Philology

Other

• 2014 Member of Danish Academy
• 2008-15 Member of the board at Forfatterskolen (Writing School Copenhagen)
• 2005-7 Board member of Georg Brandes Selskabet
• 1991-93 Member of the editorial board of the literary journal Den Blå Port
  
  

Late modern Danish and Nordic literature, postmodern literature and cultural debate, modern literary history, post-war Scandinavian literature (Thorkild Bjørnvig, Ole Sarvig, Martin A. Hansen and Karen Blixen among others), The Modern Breakthrough (J.P. Jacobsen), The Enlightenment (Ludvig Holberg and Jens Baggesen), contemporary literary theory, literature and psychology (third force), existentialism (philosophical and literary), Bildung (philosophical, historical and literary), free speech (philosophical, historical and literary).

Existentialism - philosophical and literary

Modern and postmodern literary theory

Literature and Bildung in late modernity

Literature and free speech - from Ludvig Holberg's Peder Paars to Christina Hagen's Korrekthedsbibelen (The Bible of Political Correctness)

• Literary analysis
• Literary theory
• Modern literary history
• Late modern Danish and Nordic literature
• Postmodern literature and cultural debate
• Literature and psychology (third force)
• Existentialism (philosophical and literary)
• Bildung (philosophical, historical and literary)
• Free Speech (philosophical, historical and literary)