About Aarhus University
Mads Anders Baggesgaard
Associate Professor
School of Communication and Culture - Comparative Literature
Langelandsgade 139
building 1580, 324
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Mobile: +4561658194
Areas of interest
Primary areas of interest are
- Contemporary literature and cinema with a particular emphasis on contemporary French and francophone literature, cinema and thought.
- Literary imprints of Danish slavery and colonialism.
Head of the research project Reading Slavery funded by the Velux Foundation
Editor of the Danish literary journal Passage
In 2011 recipient of a elite postdoc scholarship from the Danish Council of Independent Research with the project The World in French - on translations and traces of memory in globalized francophone literature.
In 2010 PhD with the dissertation The French and the World: Post-global Perspectives on Contemporary French Literature that treats new French literature in light of globalization with emphasis on the place of literature in the changed economic and discursive circuits of a globalized world.
Research areas
- Empires and colonies Danish colonial history Danish West Indies Slavery
- Film history African film Cultural history of film Film and globalizaition Film and politics
- France Contemporary French literature French colonialism
- Globalisation Literature and globalization Postcolonialism
- World literature Dave Eggers Francois Bon Georges Perec Globalization and literature Jonathan Littell Michel Houellebecq Pierre Alferi Thomas Pynchon Vladimir Sorokin
- Published
Écrire le monde en langue française
Verstraete Hansen, L. (ed.) & Baggesgaard, M. A. (ed.), 29 Jun 2017, Paris : Presses Universitaires de Vincennes. 185 p. (Littérature Hors Frontière).Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
Precarious Worlds: Danish Colonialism and World Literature
Baggesgaard, M. A., Dec 2016, In: Journal of World Literature. 1, 4, p. 466-483 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Nye franske verdener
Baggesgaard, M. A., Jun 2016, Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 292 p. (Verdenslitteratur, Vol. 5).Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Book › Research › peer-review
Farvebilleder fra det mørke Afrika: Race, krop, økonomi og politik i Mahamet-Saleh Harouns Grigris
Baggesgaard, M. A., 2015, In: K&K: kultur og klasse. 119, p. 103-126Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Verden på fransk
Jørgensen, S. B. (ed.) & Baggesgaard, M. A. (ed.), 2015, Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 238 p. (Verdenslitteratur; No. 4).Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
- Published
The Migrating Earth: Cinematic Images of Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake
Baggesgaard, M. A., 30 May 2015, The Culture of Migration : Politics, Aesthetics and Histories. Moslund, S. P., Petersen, A. R. & Schramm, M. (eds.). London: I.B. Tauris, p. 309-326Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Picturing the world: Cinematic globalization in the deserts of babel
Baggesgaard, M. A., 2013, In: Journal of Aesthetics & Culture. 5, 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Confronting Universalities: Aesthetics and Politics under the Sign of Globalisation
Ladegaard, J. (ed.) & Baggesgaard, M. A. (ed.), 2011, Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 365 p. (Acta Jutlandica; No. 4, Vol. 2011). (Humanities Series; No. 4, Vol. 2011).Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
The World in French - on translations and traces of memory in globalized francophone litereature
Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommunikation
01/02/2011 → 31/01/2014
Project: Research
Reading Slavery - Comparative Studies of the Literature of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Kjærgård, J. R., Andersen, F., Simonsen, K., Carvalho, V. M. D., Ladegaard, J., Baggesgaard, M. A., Smed, S. J. & Pelckmans, L.
01/02/2015 → 23/09/2019
Project: Research
Esclavages & post~esclavages/Slaveries & Post~Slaveries (Journal)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Research journal › Research
Kolonialismens vedholdenhed
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course
Slavery, Authorship and Literary Culture
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation af a conference
Hvor er erindringen om den danske slavehandel?
Press/Media: Press / Media
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