Profile

My research and teaching concern children's and young people's texts, media, their reading cultures, and concepts of childhood in contemporary and historical contexts. Currently, I study depictions of the relationship between Greenland and Denmark and how Greenlandic identity is represented in picturebooks published for Danish children ca. 1930-1960, the years before and after the change of the Danish constitution in 1953 which formally ended Greenland’s status as a colony.

I am the head of the Center for Children's Literature and Media, situated at the Department of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric at the School of Communication and Culture.

I teach at the Master's in Children's Literature and Media (in Danish) and the international master's degree Erasmus Mundus Children's Literature, Media and Cultural Entrepreneurship.

I supervise MA students writing their dissertations within these MA programs, as well as students from Literary History and Nordic Language and Literature, for instance. Currently, I supervise PhD projects on racism in Danish classics for children, on Russian picturebooks, fantasy in a queer perspective, among others (Frederikke Holkggard Buhl, Ekaterina Shatalova, Rikke Carlsen).

For years, I have been co-editor of the international book series Children's Literature Culture and Cognition, and I am an advisory board member of the scholarly journals International Research in Children's Literature and Barnboken.

Finally, I am vice-chairman of the board of The Cross Media School for Children’s Fiction, which offers a fully funded, full-time education in writing for children across media.