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My primary research area is the authorship of Hans Christian Andersen, especially his fairy tales and stories, but I have also worked on his novels, travelogues and poems. My focus in centrered on Andersen's awareness of questions of genre relating to the folk tale, the fairy tale and approximating genres like the fantastic tale and the novelle and on his unique narrative style. I have studied his departure from the poetics of the romantic arabesque and the way he anticipates themes and artistic expressions associated with modernity. I am situated at the Hans Christian Andersen Centre and thereby a member of the international network wchich surrounds the centre. I am also an expert on the authorship of Søren Kierkegaard with a keen interest in his idea and application of irony, his understanding of anxiety and the way he understands language. A third research area is the authorship of Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) and the way in which her apparantly traditionally narrated tales make room for themes and artistic strategies related to modernity in a broad sense of the term. When it comes to more recent Danish literature and art I have written om authors like Madame Nielsen, Jan Sonnergaard, Pia Tafdrup, Theis Ørntoft and Nanna Storr-Hansen as well as a number of the films of Lars von Trier. My main theoretical fields of interest are Narratology, the uncanny and the literary fantastic, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction and Ecocriticism.

Education/Academic qualification

Danish Studies, dr.phil, Arabesque and Allegory in the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Aarhus University

Award Date: 2. Mar 2012

Danish Studies, PhD, The Thinker of Irony, the Irony of Thinking. Søren Kierkegaard read Rhetorically, Roskilde University

Award Date: 15. May 1998

Current external positions

PhD-examinator, Queen Mary University of London

1. Oct 20241. May 2025

Co-supervisor on PhD-project, University of Zürich

1. Sept 20231. Sept 2026

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