CV

Personalia:

Name: Bent Sørensen
Born: April 20, 1958
Citizenship: Danish
Address: Ahornlunden 5, 2. t.h., DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
E-mail: bent@cgs.aau.dk
Telephone: +45 2127 0287, or +45 9940 9166; Fax: +45 9815 2304
Office: Kroghstræde 3, room 3.244
Current academic affiliation: Associate Professor of English, Dept. of Culture and Global Studies, Kroghstræde 3, DK-9220, Aalborg SØ, Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark

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Education:

BA, English, Aalborg University, 1990

MA, English, Aalborg University, 1994

PhD, English, Aalborg University, 2001

Teaching:

American, Canadian and British literature

Creative writing

Cultural studies

Literary theory

Academic writing & Translation

General research areas:

Cultural text studies

Literature and psychology

American & Canadian literature and culture, esp. 20. and 21 C.

Popular Music and Lyrics

Cultural and literary theory

Prior appointments:

Student Teaching Assistant (Hjælpelærer), AAU, 1981–1984 & 1991–1992

Teaching Assistant (UA), AAU, 1992–1994

PhD Candidate – salaried research appointment (Ph.d studerende), AAU, 1994–1996

Part-time Lecturer (Ekstern lektor), AAU, 1996–1998 & 2000–2001

Full-time Lecturer (Amanuensis), AAU, 1999

Assistant Professor (Adjunkt), AAU, 2001–2004

AAU representative in the Ministerial Committee for English, German and Dutch Studies, November 2011 - 2013

Current appointments:

Member of the National Board of External Examiners for the Danish University Colleges, Teacher Training/English, 2002 - 2014, reappointed for fourth term, March 2014 – 2018

Member of the National Board of External Examiners for the Danish Universities, English, April 2006 – 2018

Associate Professor (Lektor), AAU, September 2004 – (tenured)

Committee work:

Assessment board member: Position of Associate Professor of English (Textual Theory/Narratology), Dept. of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Aalborg University, March-June, 2005

PhD committee chair: Jens Fredslund, English, Aarhus University, June-September, 2005

Hiring committee member, Head of Department (Languages, Culture and Aesthetics), Aalborg University, January 2006

Assessment board member: Position of Associate Professor of English (American Literature), University of Copenhagen, September-December, 2006

PhD committee chair: Steen L. Christiansen, English, Aalborg University, September-December, 2006

Expert reader: Assistant Senior Lecturer (tenure track position) in English literature, Karlstad University, Sweden, March-November, 2007

PhD committee chair: Tore Rye Andersen, English, Aalborg University, September-December, 2007

Assessment board chair: Position of Associate Professor of Cultural and Intellectual History, Aalborg University, October 2007-February 2008

Assessment board chair: Position of Assistant Professor in Text, Culture and Media Studies, Aalborg University, November 2008 - January 2009

Expert reader: Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, English, Södertörn University College, Sweden, February - November 2009

Assessment board chair: Two Assistant Professorships in Text, Culture and Media Studies, English, Aalborg University, April/May - September, 2010

Assessment board chair: Associate Professorship in Media Studies, English, Aalborg University, April - June, 2011

PhD committee chair: Karen Langgård, AAU/University of Greenland, October-December 2011

PhD committee member: Vincent Pieterse, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, Holland, November 2011

Assessment board chair: Assistant Professorship in English, Aalborg University, July - September, 2012

PhD committee chair: Kim Toft Hansen, AAU, August-November 2012

Assessment board member: Associate Professorship in English Literature and Culture, SDU, October 2013 - January 2014

Assessment board member: Assistant Professorship in English Literature and Media, AU, October 2013 - January 2014

Administrative experience:

Student member of governing bodies of AAU, all levels, several terms 1977 - 84

Coordinator of the freshman program, Dept. of Languages and Intercultural Studies, 1998 - 2001

Coordinator of MA thesis program, English, 1998 - June 2007

Coordinator of the Culture & Media Studies (CMS) program, February 2006 - June 2007

Program Coordinator, English, 1999 - 2001, 2004 - 2007, February 2008 - August 2009

Department Committee member, Dept. of Language and Culture, February 2008 - 2010

Director of Studies, Study Board of Foreign Languages, Danish & Music (SKF), August 2009 - August 2010

Member of the Joint Internationalization Committee, Dept. of Language and Culture/Dept. of International Studies, February - June 2010

Editorial experience:

Member of the Editorial Board of Academic Quarter - the academic journal for research from the humanities, AAU, 2010 -

Editor of PsyArt On-line Journal, Aug. 1, 2006 -

Editor of Research News, Dept. of Language and Culture, February 2008 - 2010

General editor of Cultural Text Studies, monograph series of Dept. of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Sept. 1, 2005 - 2007

Contributing editor of The Atlantic Community blog 2007 - 2008, relaunched as America Adrift 2008 - 2010

Co-editor of Cultural Text Studies 1: An Introduction (w. Camelia Elias) Feb. 2006

Editor of 5 Faces of Derrida, Working Papers on Languages and Intercultural Studies, vol. 35, January 2005

Co-editor (w. Peter Stein Larsen, Ulli Pinkert & Peder Kaj Pedersen) of Interaktioner: Kunstarternes Produktive Mellemværende, a volume based on IRGiC seminar, 2007 (Published by AAU Press, 2009)

Co-editor (w. Helle Thorsøe Nielsen & Ella Chmielewska) of Academic Quarter, Issue 10: Icon (2013-14)

Co-editor (w. Mirjam Gebauer, Jan Schlosser & Helle Thorsøe Nielsen) of Non-Places, a volume based on IRGiC seminar , 2013 (to be published by AAU Press, 2014)

Conference organising experience:

Co-organiser (w. Jens Kirk) of international conference: “Complexity”, AAU, January 2004

Workshop moderator – 14th Conference on British and American Studies, Timisoara, Romania, May 2004

Panel convener (w. Camelia Elias) at Memory Haunting Discourse/Discourse Haunting Memory Conference, Karlstad, June 2004, Panel title: “Memory and potentiality as narrative strategies in the work of Raymond Federman”

Session Chair – “Invention”, BCLA Conference, Leeds, July 2004

Seminar convener (w. Christoph Ribbat) at ESSE-7 Conference, Zaragoza, Spain, September 2004, Seminar title: “Disorders of the Mind in Literature and Film”

Workshop moderator at SSSS Conference, Alcalá, Spain, October 2004, Workshop title: “Postmodern Maneuvres”

Workshop convener (w. Søren H. Balle) at NAAS-2005, Växjö, Sweden, May 2005, Workshop title: “Poetics and Non-Conformity”

Workshop convener (w. Nephie Christodoulides) at EAAS 2006, Cyprus, April 2006, Workshop title: “Poetickall Bombshells”

Panel convener at Space Haunting Discourse/Discourse Haunting Space Conference, Karlstad, June 2006, Panel Title: “Haunted California(s)”

Session chair at Literature and Psychology Conference, Helsinki, June/July, 2006, Session title: “Writers and Interpreters”

Workshop chair at Poetry and Politics Conference, Stirling, July 2006, Workshop titles: “Blues Lyrics” & “Music and Protest”

Workshop co-convener (w. Anthony Johnson) at ESSE-8 Conference, London, September 2006, Seminar Title: “The New Imagology”

Panel convener for Following Derrida Conference, Winnipeg, October 2006, Panel title: “Five Faces of Derrida”

Moderator at Rhetoric in Society 2006 conference, AAU, November 2006

Session chair at Literature and Psychology Conference, Lisbon, July 2008, Session title: “Contemporary American Literature”

Co-chair and workshop convener (w. Ben Dorfman) at the 11th International Conference of the ISSEI, Helsinki, July-August 2008, Workshop title: “Road Signs”

Session chair at Literature and Psychology Conference, Viterbo, July 2009, Session title: “Freud”

Session chair at NAAS-2009, Copenhagen, May 2009, Session title: “Virtual and Mediated: US in the World”

Co-convener (w. Erik Mortenson) of seminar “Remediating the Beats”, EAAS, Dublin, May 2010

Session chair at Literature and Psychology Conference, Pecs, July 2010, Session title: “Raymond Federman”

Co-organizer (w. Camelia Elias) of the 28th Psychology and the Arts Conference, Roskilde University, June 2011

Co-convener (w. Lawrence Normand) at ESSE-11 Conference, Istanbul, September 2012, Seminar Title: “Buddhism and Colonial/Postcolonial Literature”

Co-convener (w. Dale Carter) of music-themed sessions at three consecutive NAAS conferences 2009, 2011, 2013

Organizer of the 2nd annual European Beat Studies Network Conference, AAU, August 2013

Organizer of the NISN Conference on “The Popular”, AAU, May 2014

International contacts:

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada: Visiting Graduate Student at English Dept. (Dr. L. Ricou) February 1 - July 31, 1996

Resident at Green College, UBC, Vancouver, February – June 1996; Member of Green College Society 1996 -

Columbia University in the City of New York (Prof. Karl Kroeber), Research sabbatical, September 1 - November 1, 2001

Center for Comparative Studies, U. of Lisbon (Prof. Helena Buescu), Research sabbatical, September 1 - December 1, 2003

Brenau University, Gainesville, GA, (Dean of Humanities, Dr. Andrea Birch a.o.), Faculty exchange, October 1 - October 15, 2003, follow-up visits November 2004 & February 2006

Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland (Profs. Markku Henrikson and Mikko Saikku) Maple Leaf and Eagle Conferences 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 & 2012; Lecture visit, April 2005

Oulu University, Finland (Prof. Anthony Johnson), Faculty exchange, April 2005 & April 2007

IPSA, University of Florida, Gainesville (Profs. Andrew Gordon & Norman Holland), Lecture visit, February 2006

University of Washington, Bothell (Prof. Gray Kochhar-Lindgren), Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Consortium building and exchange activities, 2006

Prof. Ansgar Nünning, University of Giessen, Nominated and appointed as Adjunct Professor, AAU, 2007

Åbo Akademi, Turku, Finland (Prof. Anthony Johnson), Faculty exchange, April 2012

Professional associations:

Member of the Nordic and European Associations of American Studies: NAAS & EAAS; 2005 -

Member of the Danish, Nordic and European Society for the Study of English: DAES, NAES & ESSE; 2004 -

Member of The Nordic Irish Studies Network: NISN; 2010 -

Founding member of the European Beat Studies Network: EBSN; 2011 -

Member of The PsyArt Foundation & participant in the annual International Literature and Psychology/PsyArt Conferences, 2005 -

Director of The PsyArt Foundation, July 2007 -

President of The PsyArt Foundation, June 2011 -

Publications:

Books:

Passion Spent: Love, Identity and Reason in the Tales of E. A. Poe (172 pp.), EyeCorner Press, 2008 (ISBN 978-87-992456-6-6) (Originally released as “Arbejdspapirer fra Institut for Sprog og Internationale Kulturstudier”, no. 23, 1995 - Based on MA thesis)

Labelling a Generation - Generationing the Text (324 pp.), “Publikationer fra Institut for Sprog og Internationale Kulturstudier”, Vol. 35-E (ISBN 87-89170-70-9), 2001 (PhD dissertation)

Edited volumes:

5 Faces of Derrida, (78 pp.) EyeCorner Press, 2008 (ISBN 978-87-992456-3-5) (Originally released as Working Papers on Languages and Intercultural Studies, vol. 35, January 2005)

Cultural Text Studies 1: An Introduction (242 pp.), Aalborg University Press, February 2006 (w/ Camelia Elias) (ISBN 978-87-730775-3-5)

Årstider i Skeptikerens Himmel - Aforismer af Valeriu Butulescu (63 pp.), EyeCorner Press, 2008 (w/ Camelia Elias) (ISBN 978-87-992456-2-8)

Interaktioner: Kunstarternes Produktive Mellemværende (310 pp.), Aalborg University Press, 2009, (eds. Peter Stein Larsen, Peder Kaj Pedersen, Ulli Pinkert & Bent Sørensen) (ISBN 978-87-7307-950-8)

Jagged Timeline - Selected Poems by Robert Gibbons (180 pp. - selected, translated and ed., w. a scholarly intro.), EyeCorner Press, March 2010 (ISBN 978-8799245673)

Articles and book chapters:

“‘Tereu’ as lexical fragment or vocative in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land” (w. Camelia Elias), in The Explicator, Vol. 62, Number 2 - Winter 2004

“Youth and Innocence as Textual Constructs in the short stories of J.D. Salinger and Douglas Coupland”, OASIS 62, SDU, Denmark, February 2004

“An On & Off Beat: Kerouac’s Beat Etymologies”, in Philament 3, “Off-Beat” Issue, April 2004

“Derrida, 911 and Cultural Analysis”, in Culture, Media, Theory, Practice: Perspectives, ed. Ben Dorfman. Aalborg University Press, September 2004

“Freudian Economies and Constructions of Love in Poe’s Tales”, in Nordic Journal of English Studies, vol 3, no.3, 2004

“Postmodern Gothic and Juvenalian/Menippean Satire in Bret Easton Ellis’s The Informers”, in Literary Research, vol. 21, nos. 41-42, 2004

“Katabasis in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian”, in Orbis Litterarum, Vol. 60, Issue 1, 2005

“Introduction: Facing Derrida?”, “Forgiving Derrida for Dying”, “5 Faces of Derrida: Dialogue”, 5 Faces of Derrida, EyeCorner Press, 2008 (Originally in Working Papers on Languages and Intercultural Studies, vol. 35, ed. Bent Sørensen, January 2005)

“Introduction: On Titles and Un-titles”, “Tales, Titles, Tails: Negotiations of Genre in the (Short) Fiction of Alasdair Gray”, Untitled, (ed. Camelia Elias) EyeCorner Press, 2008 (Originally Working Papers on Languages and Intercultural Studies, vol. 37, March 2005)

“Physicists in the Field of Fiction”, in Comparative Critical Studies, “Invention: Literature and Science” Vol. 2, Number 2, 2005

“‘Small, but exalted’– Negotiating Differences: Personal Identity and Othering in Nella Larsen”, in ACT 11: Identidade com/sem limites - Identity with(out) limits? Eds.: Orlanda Azevedo, Ana Raquel Lourenco Fernandes, Margarida Gil dos Reis, Edições Colibri/CEC, Lisbon, September 2005

“Postmodern Identity-work and Historiography: The ‘Facts’ in the Strange Case of Monsieur Federman” (Introduction to Lisbeth R Pedersen: Surface Disturbances - A Reading of Raymond Federman’s Surfictions as Historiographic Radical Metafictions), Working Papers 39, November 2005

“The Celtic Ray: Representations of Diaspora Identities in Van Morrison Lyrics”, in Michael Böss, Irene Gilsenan Nordin & Britta Olinder (eds.): Re-mapping Exile: Realities and Metaphors in Irish Literature and History (The Dolphin 34), Aarhus University Press, December 2005

“Transatlantic: New Perspectives” (w. Camelia Elias), “Images of Europe: Readings in the Literary Topography of Generational Writings”, both in Transatlantic – Cultural Text Studies 2, eds. Camelia Elias & Andrea Birch, Aalborg University Press, December 2005

“Adaptation in Adaptation: A Real Fictitious Story(line)”, in OpenWindows: Remediation Strategies in Global Film Adapations, eds. Kyle Nicholas & Jørgen Riber Christensen, Aalborg University Press, January 2006

“Otherness in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing”, in Cultural Text Studies 1: An Introduction, eds. Bent Sørensen & Camelia Elias, Aalborg University Press, February 2006

“Tourette in Fiction: Lethem, Lefcourt, Hecht, Rubio, Byalick”, in the on-line proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Psychology and Literature, February 2006 (http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/2005/proc/proceedg.htm)

“Sacred and profane icon-work: Jane Fonda and Elvis Presley”, in US Icons and Iconicity (eds. Hölbling, Rieser & Rieser), American Studies in Austria, vol. 4, LIV Verlag, Austria, 2006

“Narratives of Disorder, Disorders of Narrative”, in PsyArt On-line Journal, September 2006

“Livskvalitet, kultur og identitet”, Mellemrummet web-edition, AAU, September 2006

“Some remarks on lexical fragments and Romanian echoes in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land”, in Caiet de Semiotica 16, Eds. Porchin & Oprocea, Editura Universitatii de Vest, Timisoara, Romania, 2005/6

“Negotiations of Genre in the Short Fiction of Alasdair Gray”, in the proceedings of the 8th International. Conf. on the Short Story in English, Alcalá, Spain, 2007 (DVD version)

“Review of Figures of Belatedness: Postmodernist Fiction in English”, in Cercles, July 2007

“Countercultural Icon-work: Adversarial and Collaborative Uses of ‘Uncle Sam’”, in Communities and Connections: Writings in North American Studies, ed. Ari Helo, University of Helsinki Press, 2007)

“A burst of language following a collision with a large piece of furniture... - Review of online chapbook Beyond Time by Robert Gibbons”, in Studio, Vol. 1, No. 2, January 2008

“Representations of Big Sur in Late Modernist and Early Postmodernist AmericanWriting”, in Space, Haunting, Discourse (Cambridge Scholars Press), eds. Maria Holmgren Troy and Elisabeth Wennö, Karlstad, 2008

“Second Thoughts: Federman's Cultural and Individual Memory in The Two-Fold Vibration”, in Federman Frenzy: the cult in culture, the me in memory, the he in history (ed. Camelia Elias) EyeCorner Press, 2008

“I aforismens tegn”, in Årstider i Skeptikerens Himmel - Aforismer af Valeriu Butulescu (selected, translated and edited by Camelia Elias & Bent Sørensen) EyeCorner Press, 2008

“Nella Larsen and Early 20^th C. Danish Portraits of Blacks”, in Interaktioner: Kunstarternes Produktive Mellemværende, Aalborg University Press, 2009, (eds. Peter Stein Larsen, Bent Sørensen et al.)

“Constructing and Deconstructing Racism in Conrad”, in Imaginaire 13, The Plurality of Interpretation proceedings issue, University of Reims, 2009

“Jewishness and Identity in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn”, Conference Proceedings of the Ninth Nordic Conference of English Studies, ed. Tim Caudery, online - 2009

“Beat Dreams? Jack Kerouac’s Book of Dreams”, in Psychoanalytic Encounters: Interdisciplinary Papers in Applied Psychoanalysis (eds. Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, Murray Schwarz & Elizabeth Fox), University of Belgrade Press, 2009

“Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn: Tourette's Syndrome and the Postmodern Condition, or Detecting Jewishness”, in Fingeraftryk: Studier i krimi og det kriminelle - festskrift til Gunhild Agger (eds. Jørgen Riber Christensen & Kim Toft Hansen), Aalborg University Press, March 2010

“Yuppier og psykopater på den litterære scene - McInerney, Ellis og 1980ernes tomme generation”, in Historier om Amerika: Aktuelle strømninger i USA's Litteratur (eds. Michael Bach Henriksen & Tonny Vorm) Forlaget Bahnhof, September 2010

“Ekphrasis in Reverse: The Use and Abuse of Poetry in Popular Films” (Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Americaines, eds. Jean Jacques Chardin & Christophe Lebold, June 2010)

“Meat, Buddhism and Salvation”, in Academic Quarter, Vol. 1, Flesh, July 2010

“One More Cup of Coffee for the Road”, in Night Cafë: The Amorous Confessions of a Barrista by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, EyeCorner Press, September 2010

“The Cultural Kernel and the Transnational Subject”, in Kulturtrafik: Æstetiske udtryk i en global verden, eds. Christiansen et al., AAU Press, 2011

“Idiot Winds – an Introduction to Steven Joyce’s Tangled Skein”, in Winds of Ilion by Steven Joyce, EyeCorner Press, March 2011

“Icons of Transgression: Patty Hearst and Charles Manson”, in Academic Quarter, Vol. 3, Transgressions, December 2011

“TAR O TAR T: The Entries and Exits of Enrique Enriquez”, in Ex Itent Er: Encounters around Tarot by Enrique Enriquez (ed. Camelia Elias), EyeCorner Press, February 2012

“The Psychological Travails of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road”, in Academic Quarter, Vol. 4, Journeys, Spring 2012

“Spectral Images of Derrida”, in Spøgelser - Genfærdet som kulturel og æstetisk figur, eds. Christiansen, Mønster, Schlosser & Pedersen, AAU Press, 2012

“Syndrome, Symptom, Trauma Chains in Post-9/11 Novels”, in The Syndrome Syndrome, eds. Tim Lustig & James Peacock, Routledge, April 2013

“Buddhism, Madness and Movement: Triangulating Jack Kerouac’s Belief System”, in Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth Century British and American Literature, eds. Lawrence Normand & Alison Winch, Continuum/Bloomsbury Academic, Dec. 2013

“Bob Dylan Sings the Apocalypse”, in The End: Terminus in Literature, Media and Culture, eds. Robert Rix & Brian Russell Graham, AAU Press, December 2013

“True Gods of Sound and Stone”, in The Crossings of Art: Aesthetics and Culture in Ireland, eds. Charles Armstrong, Ruben Moi et al., Peter Lang, 2013

“Nick Drake’s Lyrics and Existential Depression”, forthcoming in PsyArt Journal, 2014

“Fieldwork: - Paul Auster as a Popular Postmodern Fiction Writer”, in Academic Quarter 7: Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture Special Issue, December 2013

“Migrating the Light: Translating Lucian Blaga”, forthcoming as an introduction in a chapbook of Blaga translations, Nine Points Publishing, Spring 2014

“Listen – Christy Moore’s Old and New, Glocal Ireland”, forthcoming in NJES Special Issue on Irish Studies, June 2014, ed. Irene Gilsenan Nordin

“Sean-nós, Sean-nua - Sean-nós-nua?”, forthcoming in Wisdom and Authority volume, eds. Carmen Zamorano Llena & Billy Gray, 2015

Manuscripts under review:

“Almanac Songs and Singers: Protest, Detournement and Incorporation”, submitted to Currents and Countercurrents volume, eds. Magnus Ullén & Maria Holmgren Troy

Invited presentations and lectures:

“Constructing a Generation ‑ X Marks the Spot”, UBC, Green College, April 1996

“Generational Novels”, Comp.Lit. (Litteraturhistorie), Aarhus University, 1997

“The Use of Doubles in Poe’s Love Stories”, Brenau University, October 2003

“Images of Europe in Generational Novels”, Brenau University, October 2003

“‘Small, but exalted’ – Difference and Otherness in Nella Larsen’s Life and Work”, Brenau University, October, 2003

“Images of Europe in Generational Novels”, FLUP (Faculty of Letters, University of Porto), November 2003

“Sacred and profane icon-work: Jane Fonda and Elvis Presley”, FLUL (Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon), November 2003

“‘Small, but exalted’ – Negotiating Differences: Personal Identity and Othering in Nella Larsen”, ACT 11 - plenary lecture, University of Lisbon, March 2004

“Negotiations of Genre in the Short Fiction of Alasdair Gray”, 8th Internat. Conf. on the Short Story in English, Alcalá, Spain, October 2004
“Frank Grevil: Iraq War Whistleblower - a Danish Perspective”, Brenau University, November 2004

“Sacred and profane icon-work: Jane Fonda and Elvis Presley”, Club Lecture, Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland, April 2005

“Narratives of Disorder, Disorders of Narrative”, IPSA, U. of Florida, Gainesville, February 2006

“Images of the Prophet: Denmark, the US, and the Middle East”, Brenau University, February 2006

“Livskvalitet, kultur og identitet”, Humaniora og Livskvalitet panel, Studenterhuset Aalborg; arr.: Studiemiljøudvalget, April 2006

“Musik som historisk og kulturel tekst”, Musik, medier og kultur panel, AAU, arr.: Studiemiljøudvalget, September 2006

“Kulturkanon og kulturforståelse: eksklusion og participation”, Hvad skal vi med kulturarven i dag? panel, Kulturnat 2006, arr.: Studiemiljøudvalget, October 2006

“The Beats as Cultural Others/Exotics in Recent Memoirs by Exile Poets”, BAAS panel, Leicester, April 2007

“Nella Larsen’s Transnational Life and Works”, University of Cluj, Romania, December 2007

“Hvorfor kunst og kulturformidling?”, Kulturkapellet, Aalborg, December 2007

“Syndrome, Symptom, Trauma-chains in Post-9/11 Novels: Safran Foer, Ken Kalfus and Don DeLillo”, Syndrome Syndrome Symposium, Keele University, October 2009

“Trauma Chains in Jonathan Safran Foer and Ken Kalfus' Post-9/11 Novels”, Invited Panelist for the PsyArt professional association panel, Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (LCLC), Louisville, February 2010

“Trends in Literature and Criticism, 2012”, Aalborg Katedralskole, January 2012

“Creative Writing in the University Classroom”, (w. Camelia Elias) Røsnæs Conference for University Teachers of English in Denmark, August 2012

“Creative writing på skemaet i universitet, gymnasiet og seminariet?” - NUF Netværksmøde, AAU, October 2012

“Tarot and the Poets” - Tarotcon 2013, Keswick, September 2013

“Creative writing i gymnasieskolen” - Engelsklærerforeningen, Morsø Gymnasium, November 2013

Selected conference papers:

“Cultural and Individual Memory in Raymond Federman’s The Twofold Vibration” (Cultural Memory Conference, Nicosia, February 2004)

“The Tic’ing Detective: Tourette’s Syndrome as Post-modern Trope” (20th C. Literature, Louisville, Kentucky, February 2004)

“Images of Europe in Two Generational Novels: From Bohemia to Eurotrash” (BAAS, Manchester, April 2004)

“Katabasis in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian” (EAAS, Prague, April 2004)

“The Celtic Ray: Representations of Diaspora Identities in Van Morrison Lyrics” (Maple Leaf & Eagle 10, Helsinki, May 2004)

“Some remarks on lexical fragments and Romanian echoes in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land” (14th Conference on British and American Studies, Timisoara, Romania, May 2004)

“Jewishness and Identity in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn” (NAES, Aarhus, May 2004)

“Future and Past Memory in Raymond Federman’s The Twofold Vibration” (Memory, Haunting, Discourse/Discourse, Haunting, Memory Conference, Karlstad, June 2004)

“Better than Text? – Textuality as Sexuality in Postmodern North American Prose Poems” (Poetry and Sexuality, Stirling U., Scotland, July 2004)

“Physicists in the Field of Fiction” (Invention: Literature and Science, U. of Leeds, UK, July 2004)

“Postmodern Gothic and Juvenalian/Menippean Satire in Easton Ellis’s The Informers” (ESSE-7, Zaragoza, “The Gothic”-seminar, Sept. 2004)

“‘Let Us Space’: Chaos and Order in M. Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves” (Chaos & Order, CRIIILLA, Reims, France, March, 2005)

“The Horror of the Iconic Page: Concrete Prose Icons in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves” (Fifth Symposium On Iconicity In Language And Literature, Krakow, Poland, March 2005)

“The Spools, Loops and Patches of A.R. Ammons and Jack Kerouac” (NAAS-2005, Växjö, Sweden, May 2005 + EAAS, Cyprus, April 2006)

“Tourette in Fiction: Lethem, Hecht, Rubio, Byalick” (22. International Literature & Psychology Conference, Cordoba, Spain, June 2005 + (Re)Constructing Pain and Joy in Language, Literature, and Culture, Athens, Greece, October 2005)
“Beat Dreams? The Books of Dreams of Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs” (Dream Writing, U. of Kent, Canterbury, October 2005)

“The Beats as Cultural Others/Exotics in Recent Memoirs by Exile Poets” (Thirty-fourth Annual 20th C. Literature and Culture Conf., Louisville, Kentucky, February 2006 + BAAS 2007, Leicester, April 2007)

“Constructing and Deconstructing Racism in Conrad” (The Plurality of Interpretation, Reims, March 2006)

“Nella Larsen and Early 20^th C. Danish Portraits of Blacks” (Denmark and the Black Atlantic, KU, May 2006)

“Countercultural Icon-work: Adversarial and Collaborative Uses of ‘Uncle Sam’” (Maple Leaf & Eagle 11, Helsinki, May 2006)

“Representations of Big Sur in Late Modernist and Early Postmodernist AmericanWriting” (Space, Haunting, Discourse Conference, Karlstad, June 2006)

“The Ambiguous Valorisation of Madness in Beat Literature” (23rd Literature & Psychology Conference, Helsinki, June-July 2006)

“Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell’s Post-AIDS Lyrics: Canadian Cultural Critiques?” (Poetry and Politics Conference, Stirling, July 2006)

“Five Faces of Derrida” (Following Derrida, Winnipeg, October 2006, material presented in my absence by Søren H. Balle & Gray Kochhar-Lindgren)

“‘They Say They Put a Man on the Moon’ - Fallen Astronaut – Violence, Bodies, and Moon Art (NAAS 2007, Tampere, May 2007)

“Beat Dreams? Jack Kerouac’s Book of Dreams” (24th Literature & Psychology Conference, Belgrade, July 2007)

“Ekphrasis in Reverse: The Use and Abuse of Poetry in Popular Films” (High Culture, Low Culture Conference, Strasbourg, November 2007)

“The Cultural Kernel and the Transnational Subject: Meena Alexander” (The Cultural Kernel, Reims, March 2008)

“The Cadillac as Cultural Text” (Maple Leaf and Eagle, Renvall, Helsinki, May 2008)

“Icons of Transgression: Patty Hearst and Charles Manson” (EAAS 2008, Oslo, May 2008)
“Trauma Narratives in Post 9-11 Fiction: Safran Foer” (25th Literature & Psychology Conference, Lisbon, July 2008)
“Road Signs: The Cadillac as Cultural Text” (ISSEI 11, Helsinki, July - August 2008)
“The Survival of a Dissident Poet: Life in the Little Magazines before and after the Web – the Case of The Evergreen Review and Robert Gibbons” (“American Little Magazines”-seminar, at ESSE-9 in Århus, August 2008)

“From Cassady to Moriarty, and Back Again: 3 Layers of Textualization” (The Kerouac Conference, Birmingham, December 2008)

“Cosmopolitan Folk? - A ‘Fake Indian’ and a ‘Playboy Bunny Turned Singer’: The Story of Peter LaFarge and Inger Nielsen” (NAAS-2009, Copenhagen, May 2009)

“Images of Freud: Cigars, Slips and Images of Your Mother” (26th Literature & Psychology Conference, Viterbo, July 2009)

“Style as Supplement - Supplement as Style: Words and Images of Derrida” (Style in Theory Conference, Malta, November 2009)

“Economies of Passing - Identity Lessons and Tragedy” (13th Biennial Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference on North American Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, May 2010)

“Hanging on a Star: Notes on Nick Drake’s Lyrics as Expressions of Nostalgia and Existential Depression” (NAES, Oulu, Finland, June 2010 & 28th Literature & Psychology Conference/PsyArt 28, Roskilde June 2011)

““I Have Realized That I Tell Stories Only Survivors Can Tell”- Raymond Federman in Memoriam” (27th Literature & Psychology Conference, Pecs, June 2010)

“Meat, Buddhism and Salvation” (“Literature, Buddhism and Modernity” seminar, at ESSE-10, Torino, August 2010)

“True Gods of Sound and Stone” (7th Biennial NISN Conference, ‘The Island and the Arts’, Tromsø, December 2010)

“Why Leave Me Hanging on a Star, When You Deem Me So High? - The Joe Boyd/Nick Drake Nexus” (NAAS 2011, Oslo, May 2011)

“Listen – Christy Moore’s Old and New, Glocal Ireland” (DUCIS Conference, Dalarna, Sweden, November 2011)

“Bob Dylan and the Apocalypse” (IRGiC Symposium on “The End: Terminus in Literature, Media and Culture”, April 2012)

“West of the West - Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero as Gothic Western” (Maple Leaf & Eagle 14, Helsinki, May 2012)

“In Bruges/The Dumb Waiter as Studies in Interdependence and Sacrifice/Liberation” (PsyArt 29, Ghent, Belgium, July 2012)

“Buddhism, Madness and Movement - Triangulating Jack Kerouac’s Belief System” (The Inaugural Conference of the European Beat Studies Network, Middelburg, Holland, September 2012)

“Fieldwork: The Ins and Outs of Popular Postmodern Fiction - The Case of Paul Auster” (Bestsellers and Blockbusters Conference, AAU, March 2013)

“The Ballad and the Almanac Song as Protest and Detournement” (NAAS 2013, Karlstad, May 2013)

“From Hell or From Nowhere? Non-places in Douglas Coupland’s Novels” (IRGiC research seminar on “The Non-Place”, May 2013)

“Life writing and author biography: The Carr/Kammerer Episode in Kerouac Biographies” (PsyArt 30, Porto, June 2013)

“Migrating the Light: Translating Lucian Blaga” (poetry lab, Brussels, November 2013)

“Dissent as Race War: The Strange Case of Amiri Baraka” (Dissent!, AAU, January 2014)

“Allen Ginsberg's 'Wichita Vortex Sutra' as the Last Anti-War Poem” - to be presented at EAAS 2014, The Hague, April 2014

Pedagogy:

“Pros and Cons of Project Based Learning – Presentation of the AAU Project Model: 2 Personal Narratives” (w. Camelia Elias)

“Doing Terrible Things to Shakespeare and Browning: How Creative Writing Teaches Poetry and Self-Esteem”, forthcoming in Anglo Files, February 2014

Hypertext:

Peace - Play - Space (http://www.hum.aau.dk/~i12bent/Hypertext.html)

Thesis direction:

Jonathan Frantzen (Nanna Ben-Or)

Mining and Music in Appalachia (Marie Pedersen)

The Big Bang Theory's Use of Indian Stereotypes: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Racist Humour (Michael Hawkins)

Characterology and Ethics in Breaking Bad (Solvei Svane Kierulf & Mikkel Rosendal Christensen)

The Rise of the Nerd: Nerd Subculture and Anti-Intellectualism in Contemporary Sitcoms (Henrik Hvidtved)

Examining the Life and Work of Ernest Hemingway: A Study of Gender Representation and the Definition of Manhood (Tanja L.F. Pedersen)

Travel Drinking: Travel Writing and The Rum Diary (Morten Storm Hansen)

Reading Between the Lines: An Analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ... as an example of male discourse about women (Louise Othello Knudsen)

Shifting Selves: A Reading of Black and White Subject Positioning and Passing in the Writings of Three Generations of African American Women Writers (Tine Nielsen)

A Semiotic Approach to Analyzing Representations of Evil within Hollywood Films (Thor Skov Sørensen)

Passing Today, Passing Tomorrow, Passing Forever (Sebina Trejnick)

Torn in Two: African American Uplift - the Construction of Individual and National Identities in DuBois & Washington (Kamilla Gram Andersen)

Constructing Charlie Kaufman - A Study of Kaufman's Postmodern Poetics: Synecdoche New York (Lisa Kristensen & Kristina Nørremark)

Personal Postmodernism: Studies in the Fiction of Douglas Coupland & Chuck Palahniuk (Mikkel Jensen)

Memories: Past and Present in Historiographic Metafiction - A Reading of Contemporary American-Jewish Fictions as Hist.Met. (Bojan Rudan)

Order Disrupted - A Study of Identity and Social Structure (via Vietnam films) (Morten Dahl Trudslev)

The Strange Case of Alasdair Gray and Postmodernism (Alan Amos)

The Gendered Horror Writer (Camilla Szuster)

A Postfeminist Shakespeare? Julie Taymor’s Titus (Anne Skov)

In Search of Norman Mailer’s Literary Shift - the Emergence of the Meta-existentialist Hero (Thomas Kirkelund)

Ain’t Nobody But Myself - An Analysis of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (Katrine Thorkildsen)

Beyond Postmodern Quest - Reading Chance as Meta-Realism in Four Paul Auster Novels (Maria Christensen)

A World of Stories - A Reading of Three Paul Auster Novels in the Light of Identity, Storytelling and Memory (Susanne Nielsen)

Postmodernism and Television (Heidi Lundgaard Olsen)

Now where was I? - Spectators’ Intellectual, Emotional and Self-Reflexive Experience of Memento (Anne B. Nielsen)

Post-Ironic Fiction: Re-Evaluating Postmodernism (Henrik Godsk)

New Journalism: A Postmodern Genre? A Case Study of Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” as a New Journalist Text (Ivan Ioujakov)

Selvhjælpsgrupper i Danmark og England (Jytte Underlien)

A Metaphysical Can of Worms...: A Poetics of Postmodernism in the Works of Charlie Kaufman (Jesper Holmbach)

Housing the Void: Negotiations of Gothic Horror and Confessional Autobiography in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves (Rani Ellingsgaard)
English as a Medium of Power: Narrative Strategies in Postcolonial Literature (Rushdie, Achebe and Naipaul) (Sandra Kay Bjork)
Ishmael Reed - The Postmodern Trickster (Sonni Astrup Brøgger Jacobsen)
Surface Disturbances: A Reading of Raymond Federman’s Surfictions as Historiographic Radical Metafictions (Lisbeth Rieshøj Pedersen)
Kvinder og mad - en undersøgelse og analyse af forholdet mellem kvinder og mad i Margaret Atwoods romaner The Edible Woman og Lady Oracle (Karen Pilgaard)
A Sociological and Literary Quest: the Best Minds of a Generation Investigated - William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac - a comparison (Brit Jørgensen)
Mythical Realism - The Rôle of Mythology in Magical Realism: A Case Study of Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Sámal Kristian Jacobsen)
Interfictional Pockets: A Narratological Investigation of Temporal Hypotheses and Hypertrophied-Hypothesis in Postmodern Literature (Jesper Christensen)
Racial Affirmation in Langston Hughes’ Early Poetry (Rikke Bach Larsen)
The Recognition of Identites: An Analysis of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (Gitte Østergaard Sørensen)
“A Manager of Narrative”: A Postcolonial Perspective on V.S. Naipaul’s Muslim Travel Books - An Analysis of Genre, Character and Narrator (Helle Byskov Jensen)
Identity Issues in Contemporary U.S. Immigrant Literature (Using Models from Modern Psychology) (Muriel Hoequist)
Victims of Status - Status of Victims: An Analysis of the Relation between Status Positions and Victimology in The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (Lene Carlsen Luther)
Resistance Happens... Tradition versus the new: The New York School of Poetry as counter cultural manifestation in 1950s USA (Janni Olesen)
Let Me Be Your Voice! A Historical, Cultural, Theoretical and Literary Analysis of Spokemanship in 1960s and 1970s America (Helen Møllerskov)
Challenging the Alienating Society: an Existentialist Journey into the Beat Generation (Elisa Knude Gårdbo)
QUE? - An analysis and comparison of concepts within postmodern culture and postmodern literature (Ole Mølgaard)
Crisis of Knowledge, Commodification and Decadent Reality: An Analysis of Don DeLillo’s White Noise (Kent Oluf Hytten)
The Reader in the Postmodern Text: Transtextuality in Possession - a Romance by A. S. Byatt (Rikke Bergmann Johansen)
Tunnel Infinity: Mirror into Mirror: A reading of William Gibson’s cyberspace trilogy (Steen L. Christiansen)
Women and Science Fiction (Mette Kathrine Nielsen)
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut's Quest for Style and Meaning (Inge Høyer)
Blank Fiction, Commodification and Decline: An Analysis of Less Than Zero, Bright Lights, Big City, and Slaves of New York (Anne Bjørnskov Langballe)
Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here: An analysis of surfaces in Less Than Zero, American Psycho and Glamorama (Søren Winther Johannsen)
Textual Ghosts - A Palimpsestuous Reading of Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy with a Specific Focus on Hypertextuality (Søren Abilgaard Thomsen & Thomas Lund)
There is no Paul Auster here: An analysis of Paul Auster’s City of Glass (Thomas Bjerg Danielsen)
Text in Reflection: Metafiction and Intrinsic Criticism in Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy (Berit Vestergaard)
The American Southwest: A reading of Leslie Marmon Silko, Denise Chávez, and Barbara Kingsolver (Susanne Smith)

PhD direction:

Globale Diskurser i Nyere Danske Fiktionsfilm - secondary supervisor, 2011-2015 (Helle Thorsøe Nielsen)

Trauma, Crisis and Transcendence in English Romantic Poetry - main supervisor, 2013-2015 (Kasper Rueskov Guldberg)

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