About Aarhus University
Tore Rye Andersen
Associate Professor
School of Communication and Culture - Comparative Literature
Langelandsgade 139
building 1580, 329
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Phone: +4587163082
My research is primarily focused on two main areas: American literary history, and the materiality and mediality of literature.
My research within the field of American literary history moves all the way back to the birth of the nation’s literature, but I am especially interested in different movements in post45 American literature, including the relation between postmodernism and the postironical literature that followed. I have recently published the monograph Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene with Cambridge University Press (2023), and a previous book, Den nye amerikanske roman (The New American Novel), appeared in 2011 with Aarhus University Press. Moreover, I have published a number of articles on authors such as Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Cormac McCarthy, Jennifer Egan, and William Gibson in a wide array of international journals.
As part of my research on the material and medial dimensions of literature, I have investigated how the book medium itself and its physical characteristics affect the construction of literary meaning in ways we rarely consider. Furthermore, I am interested in what happens to literature when it migrates from the habitual book medium and into other media, not least new digital media. In 2014 I co-founded the interdisciplinary research center Literature between Media (funded by AU Ideas), which I directed until 2020. Furthermore, in 2019 I published the short monograph Serier (Series) on the history and development of serial narratives across media.
I have been an editor of the journal Passage since 1996, and since 1997 I have been a regular contributor to the literary magazine Standart. Furthermore, since 2013 I have been a board member of Aarhus University Press.
Research areas
- Books as a medium (including digital literature) History of the Book Paratexts The materiality of the book
- Climate and culture
- Cultural forms of expression
- Digital literature, narration/storytelling, hypertext Twitter fiction
- High and low culture
- Historiography of literature
- History of criticism
- Literary epochs 20th Century American literature Cormac McCarthy David Foster Wallace Don DeLillo Jennifer Egan Jonathan Franzen Modernism Postironical literature Postmodernism Thomas Pynchon Vladimir Nabokov William Gibson
- Literature
- Media
- Text theory and analysis
- The literary market Serialization
- Theory and Analysis of Culture
- USA
- Published
Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene
Andersen, T. R., 2023, Cambridge University Press. 242 p.Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Book › Research › peer-review
- E-pub ahead of print
Snow Globes and Instant Coffee: Transparent Commodities and the Global Infrastructures of Late Capitalism in Contemporary Fiction
Andersen, T. R., 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Textual Practice. 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
The First (and Second) Coming of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
Andersen, T. R., 2021, In: Anglia: Journal of English Philology. 139, 3, p. 516-535 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Introduction: Modes of Reading
Andersen, T. R., Kjerkegaard, S. & Pedersen, B. S., 2021, In: Poetics Today. 42, 2, p. 131-147 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Storytelling after the End: Plotting a Course through Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Andersen, T. R., 2021, In: The Cormac McCarthy Journal. 19, 1, p. 67-84 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Back to Gondwanaland: Deep Time and Planetarity in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
Andersen, T. R., Jan 2021, In: Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 62, 1, p. 97-111 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Cyberspace Revisited: A Radial Reading of William Gibson’s “Burning Chrome”
Andersen, T. R., Jun 2019, In: Journal of American Culture. 42, 2, p. 121-136 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Serier
Andersen, T. R., May 2019, Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 60 p. (Tænkepauser; No. 69).Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Book › Research › peer-review
- Published
As We Speak: Concurrent Narration and Participation in the Serial Narratives “@I_Bombadil” and Skam
Andersen, T. R. & Tanderup, S., 2019, In: Narrative. 27, 1, p. 83-106 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Pynchon's twenty-first century paratexts
Andersen, T. R., 2019, The new Pynchon studies. Freer, J. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 226-240 15 p. (Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions ).Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
- Published
Litteratur mellem medier
Andersen, T. R. (ed.), Bruhn, J. (ed.), Christensen, N. (ed.), Kjerkegaard, S. (ed.), Tanderup, S. (ed.), Pedersen, B. S. (ed.) & Rustad, H. K. (ed.), 2018, 1 ed. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 384 p.Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
Staggered Transmissions: Twitter and the Return of Serialized Literature
Andersen, T. R., 2017, In: Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 23, 1, p. 34-48 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
"Black Box" in Flux: Locating the Literary Work Between Media
Andersen, T. R., 2015, In: Nordic Journal of Media Studies. 13, 1, p. 121-136 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Pay Attention! David Foster Wallace and His Real Enemies
Andersen, T. R., 2014, In: English Studies. 95, 1, p. 7-24 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Distorted Transmissions: Towards a Material Reading of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
Andersen, T. R., 2013, In: Orbis Litterarum. 68, 2, p. 110-142 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Judging by the Cover
Andersen, T. R., 2012, In: Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 53, 3, p. 251-278 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Den nye amerikanske roman
Andersen, T. R., 2011, Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 255 p. (Verdenslitteratur, Vol. 3).Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Book › Research › peer-review
Litteratur mellem medier
Have, I., Pedersen, B. S., Andersen, T. R. & Christensen, N.
03/02/2014 → 31/12/2020
Project: Research
Free University of Berlin (External organisation)
Activity: Membership types › Member of review committee
University of Nevada Press (Publisher)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts › Research
Efter verdens ende: Undergangsvisioner i nyere amerikansk litteratur
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Mediesky amerikansk kultforfatter sælger sit arkiv
Press/Media: Press / Media
Professor bag verdens første Tolkien-tidsskrift: »Ny Ringenes Herre-serie er cringe«
Press/Media: Press / Media
Bogen: Rygterne om min død er stærkt overdrevne
Press/Media: Press / Media
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