Research interests

My research is primarily concerned with the relations between literature, aesthetic theory and political history and philosophy. I have focused particularly on romantic literature around the time of the French Revolution. In 2005, I wrote my MA thesis on aesthetics and politics in Friedrich Schlegel’s literary theory, and in 2010 I submitted my PhD dissertation on figures of democracy in the works of romantic writers such as Friedrich Hölderlin, William Wordsworth and Victor Hugo (awarded Aarhus University Research Foundation’s PhD price in 2011). Simultaneously, I have written on contemporary Danish and European literature, art and film. I am currently working on a project about aesthetic and political representations of post-communist Eastern Europe in Western European and American literature and film (see “Projects” for further information).