CV

Personalia:

Name: Bent Sørensen
Born: April 20, 1958
Citizenship: Danish
Address: Ahornlunden 5, 2. t.h., DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
E-mail: i12bent@hum.aau.dk
Telephone number: +45 2127 0287; +45 2369 3329 or +45 9940 9166; Fax: +45 9815 2304
Current academic affiliation: Associate Professor of English, Dept. of Language and Culture, 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

Literary theory

Cultural Studies

Academic writing & Translation

General research areas:

Cultural Text Studies

Theory

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

Literary genres

Poetics

Short Fiction

The Fantastic

Transatlantic literary manifestations

Literature and psychology

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

Current appointments:

Member of the National Board of External Examiners for the Danish University Colleges, Teacher Training/English, 2002 - 2006, reappointed for second term, March 2006 – 2010

Member of the National Board of External Examiners for the Danish Universities, English, April 2006 – 2010

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

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

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 -

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

Editorial experience:

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

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

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

Contributing editor of The Atlantic Community blog 2007 -

Co-editor of Cultural Text Studies 1: An Introduction (w. Camelia Elias) Feb. 2006; Cultural Text Studies 3: Complexity (w. Jens Kirk & Tore Rye Andersen), Cultural Text Studies 4: Disorder (w. Christoph Ribbat), Cultural Text Studies 5: Memory (w. Camelia Elias)

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, a volume, based on IRGiC seminar, 2007 (Published by AAU Press, 2009)

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

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; 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 -

Professional associations:

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

Member of The European Society for the Study of English: ESSE

Member of the British Comparative Literature Association: BCLA

Member of The Society for the Study of the Short Story: SSSS

Member of The PsyArt Foundation (elected to the board of directors July 2007) & participant in the annual International Literature and Psychology Conferences, 2005-

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)

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

“The Ambiguous Valorisation of Madness in Beat Literature”, under development for PsyArt On-line Journal

“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

“Theorising Belonging: The Short Story Sequences of Salinger, Updike and Coupland” (Forthcoming in the proceedings of conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Short Fiction Theory and Criticism, U. of Salamanca, Spain, 2010)

“Cultural Acceleration and Labelling of Generations” (Complexity, Aalborg, January ’04) (Forthcoming in Research News, Dept. of Language and Culture, online - 2010)

Manuscripts under review:

“The Cultural Kernel and the Transnational Subject: Meena Alexander” (Imaginaire)

“Economies of Passing - Identity Lessons and Tragedy” (Submitted for projected volume on Passing, ed. Michaela Mudure)

“Syndrome, Symptom, Trauma Chains in Post-9/11 Novels” (Submitted for The Syndrome Syndrome proceedings volume, Keele, eds. Tim Lustig & James Peacock, 2009)

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”, 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

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” (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)

Pedagogy:

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

Hypertext:

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

Thesis direction:

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)

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