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I am a postdoctoral researcher in the research project Paternity in Denmark, c. 1900-2000 (PI: Cecilie Bjerre), where I analyse the rhetorical configurations of British soldier's paternity in the Faroe Islands during World War II. With the British occupation, the Faroe Islands were isolated from Denmark, and the 1937 Danish law on children born outside of wedlock was thus to be interpreted in a context vastly different from the one it was created in. The goal of my project is to explore the political, gendered and colonial discourses shaping how soldier's became fathers or not.

My general research interest is the rhetorical intersection of biopolitics and geopolitics, and especially discourses of sexuality and reproduction are contextualised by imperial and other political relations between nations. My PhD dissertation focused on Danish journalism about abortion in the Faroe Islands where I analysed the discursive between abortion rhetoric and colonial rhetoric in coverage of a culturally challenging and politically fraught topic in the Danish kingdom.