Conference Participation
2020 (cancelled due to corona virus) “Sisters in Silence – A Critical Perspective on Depictions of Greenland” at ICAF (International Comics Art Forum), SPX, Bethesda Maryland.
2019 “What World Ends With Ragnarok? The World Building of the Norse Myths in the Danish Comic Valhalla” at Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Comics and Bande Dessinées in Manchester, UK.
2018 " A nuanced history through comics - new perspectives on a n old Danish love triangle" at SASS conference in Los Angeles, CA.
2017 ‘You hit him’ – Caroline Mathilde and Støvlet-Cathrine as monstrous women at the Monstous Women in Comics conference, Denton, TX
"Deserter, Cockroach, Dane: Questions of identity in Halfdan Pisket´s comics trilogy"at SASS conference in Minneapolis
"Past and Present Colors: Drawing Style as Temporal Framework in Comics," at the MLA conference, Philadelphia, USA.
2016 (co-written with Anne Mette Winneche Nielsen who presented the paper) "Knitting the Concept – the Use of Artistic Strategies to move the Knowledge Culture in Academic Teaching" at Creative University Conference, Aalborg University, Denmark.
(co-performed with Anne Mette W. Nielsen) "Book Collaboration as Collaborative Learning Practice" at Critical Edge Alliance Conference, University of Roskilde, Denmark
2015 (co-written with Anne Mette Winneche Nielsen who presented the paper) "How we think through doing – artistic strategies and their role in new codified setS of practices" at How to do Things with Art conference, Aalborg University, Denmark.
“Swallow his fury into your heart” – on metal culture in a few Nordic comics” at Sarjakuvatutkimuksen iltapäivä, University of Turku, Finland.
“Revisiting past places – space and place as tools for artist biography”, IBDS conference, University of London, Institute in Paris, Paris, France.
“By the Cake of the Dark Lord! – Metal Cultures in Three Nordic Comics” at Modern Metal Cultures conference, Helsinki.
“Barhopping Scandinavia - the construction of place in Martin Kellerman’s Rocky” at the ACA/PCA conference, New Orleans.
2013 “Comics as Assemblage” at the ICLA conference, Sorbonne University.
“In the deep, dark woods” at the IBDS conference, University of Glasgow
“A Sailor’s Tale” at the NNCORE conference, University of Helsinki
2012 “Good Friends in the Cold War” at 7th ComFor Conference at the University of Freiburg
2011 “Comics as Agencement” at NOMADIKON: IMAGE = GESTURE conference, University of Bergen
“And the Dog Got its Bone – on the Construction of the Chropnotope in the European Album” at Joint Conference of Graphic Novels, BDs and Comics at the Manchester Metropolitan
“Time and Space in Comics” at the Aesthetics in Comics conference, Aarhus University
2010 “Building Fictional Worlds: On the Construction of Place in Alan Moore’s Top 10” at Magus: Alan Moore conference at the University of Northampton
2009 “Contemporary Female Comics Artists in Sweden” at Women in Comics at Newhall Arts Centre, Cambridge
”Beyond Hergé – Claus Deleuran and the construction of Danish national identity” at IBDS (International Bande Dessinée Society) conference
”Full Page Insight - on the Formal Aspects of the Apocalyptic Moment in Comics by Alan Moore” at Academic Perspectives on Comics, Intercultural & Intermedial Phenomena at Växjö University
2008 ”Post-modern Joker: semiology, psychoanalysis and identity in Arkham Asylum” at the conference Paraliterary Narratives: Reassessing the Graphic Novel at the University of Northampton
Employment
Now - Sep 2016 Lecturer in Danish, Department of Germanic Studies, Univeristy of Texas, Austin
Aug. 2016 - Jan. 2014 Post Doctoral Scholar, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Dec 2013 - Sept. 2013 External lecturer, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Aug 2012 - Sept. 2009 PhD Scholar, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Invited Speaker
2019 "Sequential stories: the Development and Importance of Comics and Graphic Novels today" at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
“Imagining the North – Comics and Graphic Novels in the Nordic countries”. Bjug Harstad Lecture, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma.
2018 “Of Monsters and Men - Halfdan Pisket´s Dansker Trilogy about his Father's Life Story” at Migration in Comics and Graphic Narrative, University of Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2015 "Metal Sensations - How Comics Show and Tell the Experience of Metal" at the Mind over Metal Conference, University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
2014 “Whither the Moomin Valley – on the sense of place in the Moomin comic strips by Tove Jansson” at the Tove Jansson centennial conference, Stockholm University.
2011 “Time and Space in Comics” at The Aesthetics of Comics conference, University of Aarhus.
Visiting Scholar
2015 November-December at Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo, Norway.
August-October at Department of Finnish Literature, University of Turku, Finland.
2011 January - June at Department of American Civilization, Brown University, USA
International Experience
Invited chair and respondent for Comics Crossroads, University of Kent, 2016
Co-founder and board member of Nordic Network for Comics Research
Member of the International Bande Dessinée Society since 2007.
Member of the International Comparative Literature Association.
Invited chair for the panel “Mapping, Grey Zones and the Urban Context” at Rethinking Censorship: Aesthetics, University of Copenhagen 2013
Invited Chair for the panels “Queer session1” and “Experimental Narrative” at First International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, Instituto Franklin, Alcalá de Henares, 2011
Awards
2017 Foreign Language Teaching Excellence Award, the Texas Language Center, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin.
Funding
Recipient of “Personal Development Grant” College of Liberal Arts, UT Fall 2018
Participant in the inter-departmental collaborative research project “Cultural Entrepreneurship”, The Foundation for Entreprenuership, fall 2014
Competitive Post Doc grant The Danish Council for Independent Research, 2014-2016. 1.642.395 dkr. (£185.020).
Co-author on the funding application for NNCORE: Nordic Network for Comics Research (Granted from the Danish Council for Independent Research: 905.412 dkr (£104.900). 2013-2011
Stipend from the Danish Arts Council for keynote Jaques Samson at the conference Contemporary Comics 2010, 6900dkr. (£800).
Competitive PhD scholarship University of Copenhagen, 2009.
Peer Review
European Journal of Comic Art
Studies in Comics
Passage - tidsskrift for litteratur og Kritik
Nordlit - Tidsskrift i Litteratur og Kultur
SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature)
Authorship
Editorial Work
Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art 2010 – 2014
Danish comics magazine STRIP! 2006-2013