About Aarhus University
Stefan Kjerkegaard
Associate Professor
School of Communication and Culture - Scandinavian Studies
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 2
building 1485, 322
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Phone: +4587163174
Mobile: +4560897380
My research mainly concerns contemporary Danish and Scandinavian literature. I am particularly interested in how new literature and literary theory changes in a time of new media. This has, among other things, lead me to an interest in self-fashioning literature (autobiograpichal novels and poems, autofiction), but also to an interest in the teaching of literature, e.g. why read literature?
Scandinavian Authors such as Inger Christensen, Per Højholt, Claus Beck-Nielsen (1963-2001), Dag Solstad, Vigdis Hjorth, Sara Stridsberg, Matias Faldbakken, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Karl Ove Knausgård, Tomas Espedal. Among the older Scandinavian literature, especially writers like Johannes Ewald, St. St. Blicher, J.P. Jacobsen, Knut Hamsun, Herman Bang and Henrik Pontoppidan.
Non-Scandinavian authors: Stéphane Mallarmé, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, Bret Easton Ellis, Michel Houellebecq, Roman Jakobsen, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Philip Roth, Ben Lerner.
More general areas: modern literary theory, contemporary Scandinavian literature, autobiographical literature, autofiction, the interaction between literature and new media, teaching of literature, narratology.
Research areas
- Advertising aesthetics puns wordplay
- Books as a medium (including digital literature) The materiality of the book
- Cognition theory puns
- Cultural forms of expression Self-Fashioning Self-Fashioning in media
- History of criticism
- Literary epochs Avant-garde Contemporary novels (2000-2006) contemporary poetry Postmodernism
- Literary institutions
- Literature
- Lyrics
- Poetics, poetry and philosophy Claus Beck-Nielsen Das Beckwerk Gilles Deleuze Humour J.P. Jacobsen Knud Romer Lyric metaphor Morten Søndergaard Niels Frank Niels Lyngsø Per Højholt Peter Laugesen Poetry puns Simon Grotrian Ursula Andkjær Olsen
- Printed Media
- Text theory and analysis Authorship Autobiography Autofiction Deconstruction didactics of literature Fiction Jens Peter Jacobsen literary criticism Narrative theory Narratology Poetry Self-Fashioning Theory of fiction Witness Literature Wordplay
- The concept of the work
- Published
Den menneskelige plet: Medialiseringen af litteratursystemet
Kjerkegaard, S., May 2017, Frederiksberg: Dansklærerforeningen. 158 p.Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Book › Research
- Published
Humor
Kjerkegaard, S., 2 Oct 2017, Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 60 p. (Tænkepauser; No. 52).Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Book › Research › peer-review
- Published
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle: A Real Life in a Novel
Schmitt, A. & Kjerkegaard, S., 2016, In: a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. 31, 3, p. 553-579 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Getting People Right. Getting Fiction Right: Self-Fashioning, Fictionality, and Ethics in the Roth Books
Kjerkegaard, S., 2016, In: Journal of Narrative Theory. 46, 1, p. 121-149 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
In The Waiting Room: Narrative in the Autobiographical Lyric Poem, Or Beginning to Think about Lyric Poetry with Narratology
Kjerkegaard, S., 2014, In: Narrative. 22, 2, p. 185-202 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Hørbylundemanden. Introduktion til Per Højholts forfatterskab.
Kjerkegaard, S., 2009, Århus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 198 p.Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Book › Research
- Published
The Medium Is Also The Message: Narrating Media in Bret Easton Ellis’s Glamorama
Kjerkegaard, S., 2011, In: Style (DeKalb). 45, 4, p. 619-637 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Lyrik, medialisering, poesi
Kjerkegaard, S., 2013, Diktet utenfor diktsamlingen: Modernisme i nordisk lyrikk 6. Kjerkegaard, S. & Langås, U. (eds.). Bergen: Alvheim & Eide Akademisk forlag, p. 9-27 18 p.Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
- Published
Litterær selvfremstilling og autofiktion i en skandinavisk optik
Kjerkegaard, S. & Myrup Munk, A., 2013, Millenium - Nye retninger i nordisk litteratur. Bunch, M. (ed.). Gentofte: Forlaget Spring, p. 325-348 23 p.Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
- Published
Mediatization, self and literature: Fictionality as a means of self-fashioning in Bret Easton Ellis and (Claus Beck-) Nielsen
Kjerkegaard, S., 2016, Literature in Contemporary Media Culture: Technology - Subjectivity- Aesthetics. Paulson, S. J. & Malvik, A. S. (eds.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 129-148 20 p. (FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures; No. 2).Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Litteratur mellem medier
Pold, S. B., Andersen, T. R., Have, I., Pedersen, B. S., Christensen, N., Ringgaard, D. & Kjerkegaard, S.
03/02/2014 → 04/02/2019
Project: Research
En tænkepause - Humor
Stefan Kjerkegaard (Lecturer)
2 Oct 2017Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
"The “I” beyond fiction. Contemporary Danish Poetry After Karl Ove Knausgaard”
Stefan Kjerkegaard (Lecturer)
11 Apr 2017Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Ditlevsen og Erindringerne
Stefan Kjerkegaard (Lecturer)
21 Sept 2017Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Den menneskelige plet. Medialiseringen af litteratursystemet
Stefan Kjerkegaard (Lecturer)
8 Aug 2017Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Poetry, Mediatization and New Sensibilities
Stefan Kjerkegaard (Organizer)
4 Dec 2014 → 6 Dec 2014Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation af a conference
The 2016 Hogan Prize: a/b: Autobiography
Kjerkegaard, Stefan (Recipient), Dec 2016
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Forsker bag ny bog om humor: Her er min eneste vittighed
04/10/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
ID: 16849