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Curriculum Vitae_

Current Position_
2008-2011: Post.doc. at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen
Education_
2008-2009: Adjunktpædagogikum [professional teaching training course for assistant professors], University of Copenhagen.
2004-2007: PhD, German Department, University of Cambridge, titel: 'Narrative Negotiations: Information Structures in Literary Fiction'
2003-2004: MA, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen
2002-2003: M.Phil. in European Literature, University of Cambridge
1999-2002: BA, Comparative Literature and Modern Culture, University of Copenhagen
Lectures and Conference Papers_
'Attention! Technology and Automaticity in Signs of the City'. Paper at the conference Digital Art and Culture in teh Age of Pervasive Computing, Copenhagen, 12-14 November, 2008.
'Surveying the City: Urban Signs between Attention and Automaticity'. Paper at the Conference Signs of the European City, Berlin, 17-18 October, 2008.
'At leve med overload: Informationshåndtering mellem automatisme og opmærksomhed'. Paper at Work-in-Progress Seminar, Copenhagen, 26 September 2008.
'Surveillance Narratives: From Lack to Overload'. Paper at the conference Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction, Oxford, 1-3 July 2008.
'Narrative and Temporal Negotiations: Digital Information Structures in Literary Fiction'. Paper at the conference Figurations of Knowledge, 5th Biannual European Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Berlin, 2-7 June 2008.
'Narrative Negotiations: Literary Ficion in an Information Age'. Participant at a roundtable on technology and collage/montage at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, New York, 22-24 May 2008.
'Negotiating Narrativity - Digital Information Structures in Reinhard Jirgl's Abtrünnig'. Paper at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, San Francisco, 19-22 March 2008.
'Narrative Negotiations: Information Technology as Symbolic Form'. Paper at the conference Erlebnis and Erfahrung: Aesthetics of Pervasiveness, Copenhagen, 6-7 November 2007.
‘Fictional Cities in a Digital Age: Berlin – Tokyo’. Paper at the City Seminar at the Centre for Research, Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge, 8 May 2007.
‘Fiction in Digital Age: Time, Space, Plot’. Paper at the Modern German Studies Graduate Seminar - 4th International Summer Symposium 2007: Space & Time in Literature, Media, and the Arts, Oxford, 27 April 2007.
‘Fiction in a Digital Age: Grass, Hettche, Jirgl’. This lecture was presented as the Sylvia Naish Research Student Lecture 2007 on 22 February. The opportunity to give this lecture was awarded in a competition by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London.
‘Representing Cityness - Online Art and Urban Metaphors’. Paper at the conference Arts in Society, Edinburgh, 15-18 August 2006.
‘From inside the chandelier – Interdisciplinarity as worldview’. My paper was part of the round table discussion ‘Seven Types of Interdisciplinarity’ at the conference The Future of Interdisciplinarity, Cambridge, 10 December 2005.
‘Once upon a time there was a database: Narrative and Database from a cognitive point of view’. Paper at the conference Refresh! First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Banff, Canada, 28 September 2005 - 1 October 2005.
‘The Novel as Database: The computer as imaginative and representational medium in Thomas Hettche’s novel Nox’. Paper at the conference NorLit 2005: Literature, Technology, Imagination’, Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 August 2005.
Invited speaker: ‘Der var engang en computer – fortælleformer og subjektivitet i netkunsten’ [‘Once upon a time there was a computer – narration and subjectivity in netart’] at the symposium: At tænke på tværs [Thinking across boundaries], University of Copenhagen, 8 April 2005.
‘Cybercitizen: Urban identity in net art’. Paper at the conference Imagining the City, Cambridge, 30 July - 1 August 2004.
Teaching_
University of Copenhagen
2008-: Supervision and examination of MA dissertations in Comparative Literature and Modern Culture.
Spring 2009: Teaching and examining the course ‘Surveillance from a cultural and aesthetic perspective’ for MA students of Modern Culture at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.
Teaching and examining the course ‘Narration and Digital Media’ for MA students of Comparative Literature at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.
University of Cambridge
Lent 2007: Supervising undergraduate GE6 papers for the German Department, especially the papers: ‘Modernist Fiction’, ‘Weimar Film’, and ‘Urban Culture’.
Easter 2007: Supervising undergraduate GE6 papers for the German Department.
Dansklærerforeningen
March 2006: ‘Media - Language - Literature’. Series of five lectures for teachers in the Danish Gymnasium, commissioned by Dansklærerforeningen, 5-14 March 2006.
Selected Prizes and Awards_
2008-2011: Post.doc. funding from the Carlsberg Foundation for project on surveillance and narrative
2004-2007: Carlsberg Studentship at ChurchillCollege, University of Cambridge
2004-2007: The Arts and Humanities Research Council Postgraduate Award
2004-2007: Cambridge European Trust Scholar
2003: Selwyn College MPhil Prize, University of Cambridge
2002: Scholar of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
Other Academic Activities_
2009-: Member of the research network Living in Surveillance Societies (LiSS), European Coorporation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST) Action IS0807.
2009- : Member of the research network The Culture of Ubiquitous Information, NordForsk.
2008-: Member of the Research Group CEMES-Young Scholars at the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES).
2008-2009: Research Associate for the Electronic Literature Organization Directory and Archive-It Collection.
2009: Member of the organising committee of the European Summer School in Cultural Studies (ESSCS) 17-21 August 2009.
2008-2009: Member of the organising committee for the conference European citizenship and cultural identity 20-21 January 2009.
2004-2006: Committee member of The Churchill College Phoenix Society.
Relevant Work Experience_
2003-2004: 6 months trainee position as editorial assistant, KRITIK, Gyldendal, Copenhagen
2002-2003: Production of small features for P1 Morgen [Danish National Broadcast]
2001-2004: Reviewing books on Danmarks Radio P1-morgen [Danish National Broadcast]
2001-2002: Literature editor on XFM Radio [local radio]
2000-2001: Reviewing books for the website EON hosted by the publishing house Egmont
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