Sten Pultz Moslund

Forskningsinteresser

PERSONLIG PROFIL

Jeg er Cand. Mag. i Engelsk fra Syddansk Universitet (SDU), MA i Afrika Områdestudier fra Københavns Universitet og ph.d. fra SDU, hvor jeg har været ansat som lektor i Litteraturvidenskab siden 2013. Jeg har undervist i litteratur på Engelskstudiet (SDU) siden 2004 og på Litteraturvidenskab (SDU) siden 2013. Derudover har jeg været gæsteforsker på Warwick University, Stanford University og Stony Brook University.

Jeg har udgivet tre monografier om hhv. sydafrikansk litteratur og apartheidhistorien; migrationslitteratur og kulturel hybriditet; og sanselige og affektive fremstillinger af sted i postkolonial litteratur. Jeg har redigeret tre bøger om hhv. stedets betydning i kunst, kultur og medier; litteratur og nymaterialisme; samt migration og æstetiske repræsentationsformer. Derudover er jeg medforfatter på en bog om litteratur, kunst og postmigration og har udgivet en lang række forsknings- og formidlingsartikler om postkolonial litteratur og teori, migrations- og multikulturel litteratur, hybriditetsteori, geokritik og stedsteori og, senest, om klimaforandringer og klimalitteratur fra det Globale Syd.

Ud over at integrere min forskning på universitetskurser, er jeg meget optaget af at bringe den videre i spil i undervisningssektoren uden for universitetet, og i 2022 modtog jeg BELMAs guldpris for bedste europæiske undervisningsmaterialer for Everyone Is Here (2021) – en undervisningsbog til gymnasiet baseret på min forskning i multikulturel litteratur. Jeg har udgivet en tilsvarende undervisningsbog, The Climate Divide (2024), om klimaforandringer og klimalitteratur fra det Globale Syd.

FORSKNINGSINTERESSER

Helt overordnet undersøger min forskning, hvordan litteratur repræsenterer, formes af og reproducerer verdensforståelser, og særligt, hvordan litteraturen udfordrer dominerende sociale, kulturelle og eksistentielle opfattelser af verden og virkelighed, og tilbyder forestillinger om andre måder at være i verden på. Alt dette med primært fokus på migrationslitteratur og postkolonial litteratur.

Min forskning er derfor båret af en interesse for litteraturen som et kulturbærende og kulturskabende rum, men også som et særligt erkendelsesrum, hvor nye eller anderledes verdensforestillinger og virkelighedsforståelser kan bryde frem og udforskes. Jeg er interesseret i litteraturens diskurser, moddiskurser og polyfonier, og dens formelle virkemidler, men også i særlig grad litteraturens affektive og sanseæstetiske dimensioner og deres potentiale til at overskride og erstatte f.eks. koloniale og undertrykkende reduktioner af virkelighed og virkelighedsopfattelse.

Aktuelle interesser

Siden 2022 har jeg forsket i klimalitteratur fra det Globale Syd ud fra ovenstående perspektiver, hvor min forskningsinteresse senest har bevæget sig i retning af affektteori og omsorgsetik. I 2025 begyndte jeg mit bidrag til udviklingen af det spirende begreb, omsorgsæstetik (”care aesthetics”). Jeg undersøger omsorg (”care”) som en generel drivkraft i social og klimamæssigt engageret litteratur, og særligt hvordan omsorg er indlejret i og intensiveres igennem æstetiske litterære former og virkemidler (som f.eks. narrative strukturer, synsvinkler, sanseligt, figurativt og stemningsskabende sprogbrug, osv.) på måder, der fremstiller nye omsorgsbetonede virkelighedsforståelser og forestillinger mellemmenneskelige og mere-end-menneskelige former for sameksistens.

Forskningsområder

FORSKNINGSOMRÅDER og FORSKNINGSTILGANGE 

Mine primære forskningsområder omfatter migrationslitteratur, postkolonial litteratur og klimalitteratur fra det Globale Syd. Min overordnede tilgang er tværdisciplinær med inddragelse af historiske, sociale, kulturelle, politiske, filosofiske, økokritiske, æstetiske og litterære perspektiver på litteraturen, og overordnede teoretiske retninger, der præger min forskning, er diskursteori, postkolonial ideologikritik, hybriditetsteori, fænomenologi, affektteori, postantropocentrisk teori og postkolonial økokritik.

SÆRLIGE FORSKNINGSBIDRAG

Særlige forskningsbidrag inkluderer (blandt andet):

• teoretisk udvikling af hybriditetsbegrebet til udforskning af kulturelle forandringer og fremkomsten af nye verdensforståelser igennem kulturelle blandinger (som afspejlet i migrationslitteratur)
• teoretisk udvikling af begrebet postmigration som læse- og forståelsesramme til udforskning af nye kulturforståelser og analyse af aktuelle multikulturelle samfundsudviklinger
• udforskning af stedets sanselige og affektive dimensioner i postkolonial litteratur og deres virke som æstetiske og eksistentielle udfordringer af koloniale territoriale relationer til sted, mennesker og væren i verden
• overføring af nymaterialistisk og post-antropocentrisk teori til analyse af mere-end-menneskelige virkeligheder og agenser i litteratur
• udforskning af oplevelser, forståelser og fremstillinger af klimaforandringer i klimalitteratur fra det Globale Syd med særlig fokus på tematiseringer af klimaretfærdighed og fremvæksten af dekoloniale mellemmenneskelige og mere-end-menneskelige virkelighedsforståelser som modvægt til logikker og verdenssyn, der har skabt klimakrisen
• (igangværende) udvikling af omsorgsæstetik som en teoretisk ramme til forståelse og analyse af omsorg som klimalitteraturens grundlæggende sociale, økologiske og eksistentielle verdensindstilling samt dennes indlejring i og formidling igennem litterære virkemidler (som f.eks. narrative strukturer, synsvinkler, brug af figurativet, sanseligt, affektivt sprog, osv.)

FORSKNINGSLEDELSE, NETVÆRK OG PROGRAMDELTAGELSE

Jeg har været forskningsleder for SDU forskningsprogrammerne The Place Research Programme (2011-2013) og Materiality, Literature and Aesthetics (2015-2018) samt styregruppemedlem i to DFF-finansierede forskningsprojekter Network for Migration and Culture: The Interrelations of Migration, Culture and Aesthetics (2010-2014) og Art, Culture and Politics in the “Postmigrant Condition” (2018-2021).

Jeg været medlem af følgende netværk og forskningsgrupper MateriAlterity: Network for Materialterity, Literature and Aesthetics (2013-2019); Anthropocene Aesthetics (2019-2023) og, deltager p.t. i Narrativitet (2024-), Critical Techtopia (2024-), Det grønne forskningsnetværk (2024-) og er derudover løst affilieret med Centre for Understanding Human Relationships with the Environment (CUHRE).

CV

CURRICULUM VITAE

Sten Pultz Moslund

Associate Professor,

Comparative Literature and English Studies,

Institute for the Study of Culture,

University of Southern Denmark

Date of birth: 14 Dec., 1971

Postcolonial theory and literatures; migration and multicultural literature and theory; black British and British Asian literature; place theory and literature; new materialisms and literature.

2013-                                  Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark                     

2015-2018                         Member of the Research Council at the Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark

2010-2018                         Member of the Steering Committee of Network for Migration and Culture: The Interrelations of Migration, Culture and

                                       Aesthetics, the Universities of Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg,

                                   Roskilde, Southern Denmark (and international affiliations).

See http://migrationandculture.ku.dk/

2012-2013                            Assistant Professor, English Studies, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark

2009-2012                          Postdoctoral fellow on Place and Literature, English Studies, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark (financed by FKK and SDU)(including six months paternity leave)

2006-2009                          Ph.D. in Postcolonial Migration Literature, English Studies, Institute for Literature, Culture and Media, University of Southern Denmark (financed by FKK)

2002-2006                          Assistant Lecturer, British History and English as a World Language, English Studies, Institute for Literature, Culture and Media, University of Southern Denmark

2015-2018                          Chaired: Materiality, Literature and Aesthetics. A three-year collective research programme at the Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark

www.sdu.dk/da/om_sdu/institutter_centre/ikv/forskning/forskningsgrupper/materialitet/

2011-2013                          Co-chaired (with Søren Frank): The Place Research Programme at the Institute for Literature, Culture and Media, University of Southern Denmark. A two-year cross-disciplinary research programme on place in relation to Literature, Culture and Media.

2018-2021                          (planned) ”Culture and Migration – Postmigrant Perspectives in Europe”. A three-year collective research programme at the Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

2015-2018                          Participant and member of steering group in the collective research project, “Art, Culture and Politics in the ‘Postmigrant Condition’” (financed by Danish Council for Independent Research (SFI) and chaired by Moritz Schramm)

www.sdu.dk/en/postmigration

2013-                                  MateriAlterity: Network for Materialterity, Literature and Aesthetics (the universities of Southern Denmark, Aarhus, Aalborg, Erfurt, Kiel, Limerick, Warszawa, Geneve og St Gallen. Initiated in corporation with Kai Merten (Erfurt), Susan Yi Sencindiver (Aarhus) and Maria Beville (Limerick).

2010-2018                          Participant and member of the steering group: Network for Migration and Culture: The Interrelations of Migration, Culture and Aesthetics, the Universities of Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg, Roskilde, Southern Denmark (and international affiliations).

www.migrationandculture.ku.dk

2012-                                  Literature and Urban Studies: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/hlc-n/

2011-                                  Geocriticism (academic Facebook group by Robert Tally, Texas State)

2009-2013                          American Tropics (University of Essex)

2018                                    (planned)

International conference: The Postmigrant Condition: Art, Culture and Politics in Contemporary Europe. Organized in co-operation with Moritz Schramm, Hans Christian Post and Anna Meera Geonkar. November 22-3. Keynotes: Naika Foroutan, Erol Yildiz, Riem Spielhaus, John McLeod, Roger Bromley and Marsha Meskimmon.                      

2017                                   Lecture of Excellence: Professor Roger Bromley (Nottingham University), “Putting the Black in the Union Jack: the background to the teaching of British Black and Asian Writing in the UK”

2017                                   Lecture of Excellence: Timothy Morton (Rice University), “Fake News, Ecological Edition”

2012-2014                          Member of the steering group of Network for Migration and Culture (conceptualization and organization of the network’s conferences, seminars and workshops).

2014                                   Lecture of Excellence: Professor Marsha Meskimmon (Loughborough University), “Feminism, Citizenship and the Arts: Creative Ecologies of Belonging”

2012                                   Lecture of Excellence: Professor Nikos Papastergiadis (University of Melbourne), “Into Cosmos: Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imaginary”

2012                                    International conference: Migration, Memory, and Place

Organized in co-operation with Anne Ring Pedersen, Søren Frank, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Kasper Krejberg and Frauke Wiegand (the Network for Migration and Culture in collaboration with the Danish Network for Memory Studies). University of Copenhagen and Arken Museum of Modern Art; 24 parallel panels of three papers. Keynotes: Mieke Bal, Nikos Papastergiadis, Andreas Huyssen, Edward Casey and Alastair Thompson (December)

2011                                   Seminar: Stedets teori, repræsentationer og forestillinger Organised in co-operation with Søren Frank, University of Southern Denmark, Odense. Keynotes: Frederik Tygstrup and Dan Ringgaard (December)

2008                                    International conference: Taking Chances, JD 2008

Organised in co-operation with Roy Sellars

August 26-28, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding

Keynotes:  Graham Allen, John Phillips and Maebh Long.

2000                                   A Danish Literary Event at WordFest at the annual National Festival of the Arts in South Africa, 2000. Festival participation, guest lectures and readings by two Danish writers (Ursula Andkjær Olsen and Vagn Lundbye)

2016                                   Encountering Materiality: Science, Art, Language, University of Geneva. Paper title: “How Matter Comes to Matter in Literature: Material Realisms through the Production of Sensuous Intensities” (June)

2015                                   Bridges Across Cultures, Florence International Studies Institute, Florence, the Umbra Institute and Washington & Jefferson College. Paper title: “Sensuous Geographies and Silent Calls of the Earth in Postcolonial Literature” (July)

2011                                   Imagining Spaces/ Places, University of Helsinki. Paper title: “Sensuous Geographies in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway” (August)

2010                                   Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms, ACLA 2010 New Orleans. Paper title: “Intentional and Organic Hybridity - and Different Speeds of Cultural becoming” (April)

2009                                   American Tropics. Towards a Literary Geography, University of Essex. Paper title: “Langscaping the Novel and the Presencing of Place in Literature - with a Few Examples from Harold Sonny Ladoo's No Pain Like This Body (July)

2008                                   Otherness and the Arts, University of Aarhus. Paper title: “On the Representation of Difference/Otherness in Transcultural Literature and Theory” (August)

2007                                   Migration and Literature in Contemporary Europe. University of Copenhagen. Paper title: “European Identity through Migrant Eyes and the Limits of the Hybrid Gaze” (August)

2014                                   Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel: “The New Material Other” (lecture, seminar and taught classes) (January)

2013                                   “Re-thinking Hybridity through the Perspectives of Time, Place and Aesthetics” and round table discussion at the international conference: Language, Culture and Identity in Migrant Narratives, University of Oslo, (May)

2010                                   The Danish Cultural Institute in Poland (et al), Warsaw conference on Literature and Immigration: Paper title: “Hybridity and the Representation of Danish Identity in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Carrier” (March)

2010                                   University of Copenhagen: “Intentional and Organic Hybridity and Different Speeds of Cultural Becoming”. Seminar by the Network for Migration and Culture (October)

2007                                   English studies/ Intercultural studies, the University Centre of Roskilde, “Making Use of History in Contemporary South African Literature” (June)

2018                                   (planned) Den litterære efteruddannelse for biblioteksansatte, IKV, SDU: “Postkolonial litteratur og teori” (November)

2017                                   Den litterære efteruddannelse for biblioteksansatte, IKV, SDU: “Postkolonial litteratur og teori” (November)

2017                                   Dansklærerforeningen og Engelsklærerforeningen (gymnasiet), Signatur hotel, Nyborg: “Postmigration i ny britisk litteratur” (March)

2014                                   Public interview with Salman Rushdie. Odense Centralbibliotek, Odense, Denmark (August)

2012                                   Engelsklærerforeningen (gymnasiet), Syddansk Universitet: ”Sted som inspiration til engelskundervisningen” (March)

2010                                   Engelsklærerforeningen (gymnasiet), Esbjerg Statsskole: “From British-American to Post-Colonial English and World Literature” (November)

2006                                   “Introduction to Orientalism” at Det Fynske Musikkonservatorium (May)

2015                                   Opponent at Annika Myhr’s public defence of her PhD dissertation, Memories out of Place and Season. England, Germany, Russia, Estonia, and Norway in Migration Literature Since 1989 at the University of Oslo, Norway (February)

2014                                   Doctoral master class: The New Material Other. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany (January)

2013                                   Doctoral master class and workshop: Language, Culture and Identity in Migrant Narratives, University of Oslo, Norway (May)

2012                                   Stony Brook University, Department of Philosophy, invited by Professor Edward Casey (October)

2012                                   Stanford University, Department of Comparative Literature,                                  invited by Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (January-March)

2007                                   Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies, Warwick University, invited by Professors Susan Bassnett and David Dabydeen (October-December)

Since 2018                          The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (Sage)

Since 2017                          Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (Routledge)

Since 2011                          SoundEffects - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience (Open Journal Systems)

Since 2009                          Orbis Litterarum (Blackwell Publishing)

Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen

Palgrave-Macmillan, UK: Basingstoke

2015                                   FKK (The Danish Independent Research Council): 3 year research project grant, “Art, Culture and Politics in the ‘Postmigrant Condition’” (DKR 5,406,913) (Main applicant: Associate Professor Moritz Schramm, University of Southern Denmark)

2011                                   FKK (The Danish Independent Research Council): 2 year network grant (DKR 820,987) (Main applicant: Associate Professor Anne Ring, University of Copenhagen)

2009                                    FKK (The Danish Independent Research Council):

two year postdoc research grant (DKR 1,499,175)

2005                                    FKK (The Danish Independent Research Council):

three year Ph.D. grant (DKR 1,550,000)

2009                                   Nominated by my colleagues at the Institute for Literature, Culture and Media for the EliteForsk award of the Danish Council for Independent Research (SFI)

(See attached letter of nomination, “Indstilling af Sten Pultz Moslund til EliteForsk-prisen ved Det Frie Forskningsråd 2009”)

2000                                   Internship/ exchange student at The National English Literary Museum / Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa (January-August)

1996                                   Teacher of English, Standard Seven (roughly 2-3 g. in the Danish system) Inanda Seminary, Durban, South Africa (January-December)

2014-2018                          Member of the IKV Research Council (Forskningsudvalg)

2017                                   Member of the PhD recruitment committee (bedømmelses- og ansættelsesudvalg) for an IKV PhD stipend

2014-2015                          Member of the PhD assessment committee (with Elisabeth Oxfeldt, Oslo and Ulrich Schmid, St. Gallen) for Annika Myhr’s PhD dissertation, Memories out of Place and Season. England, Germany, Russia, Estonia, and Norway in Migration Literature Since 1989 at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Since 2014                          Member of the corpse of external examiners in Comparative Literature (censorkorps) in Denmark

2002-2018                          Courses on literature at pregraduate and postgraduate levels, obligatory core courses and research based optional courses.

(see list of taught courses in enclosed teaching portfolio)

2011-2018                          Supervision of more than forty B.A. projects and eight MA theses (specialer)at Comparative literature and English Studies

2018                                   Revision of content and structure of the Academic Regulations (Studieordning) for English Studies, Bachelor programme (literary section)

2013-2016                          Ph.D. supervision (bivejleder) of Ph.D. project in Comparative Literature, IKV, SDU: Marlene Marcussen, “Reading for Space. An Encounter Between Narratology and New Materialism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and Georges Perec”

2013-2015                          Revision of content and structure of the Academic Regulations (Studieordning) for Comparative literature, Bachelor and MA programmes

2004-2006                          English, 3. G. A-level, Gentofte HF (GSK)

2004-2005                          English, HF B-level, Det Frie Gymnasium, Copenhagen

2003-2004                          Teacher of Danish, Refugees and Immigrants, VUC Vestsjælland Nord

1996-1997                          Teacher of English, Standard Seven (roughly 2.g-3.g), Inanda Seminary, Durban, South Africa

2018                                   Project organisation and project management.

University of Southern Denmark

2016                                    Course in study group facilitation and team building

                                           University of Southern Denmark

2013                                   Course in Ph.D. supervision (Faculty of the Humanities). University of Southern Denmark

2011                                   University Pedagogical Diploma (Universitetspædagogikum), University of Southern Denmark

2009                                   Ph.D. in Postcolonial Migration Literature, University of Southern Denmark

Title of Ph.D. dissertation:

The Speeds of the Migrant Mongrel: A Critical Re-Engagement with Hybrid Discourses and Becomings in Contemporary Migration Literature and Theory.

2001                                   M.A. in English, University of Southern Denmark.

Title of M. A. thesis: “Re-inventing Reality: An Analysis of Discourse and Imaginative Counterdiscourse in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses”

2000                                   Masters in Africa Area Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Title of Masters thesis: “Making Use of History in New South African Fiction: An Analysis of the Purposes of Historical Perspectives in Three Post-Apartheid Novels”