About Aarhus University
Sebastian Ørtoft Rasmussen
PhD Student
School of Communication and Culture - Department of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric
Langelandsgade 139
building 1586, 220
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Research areas
- Historiography of literature Philosophy and Literature Science and Literature
- Literary epochs Contemporary Art and Literature European Romanticsm
- Philosophers Baumgarten Deleuze Kant Kierkegaard Laurent Berlant Sianne Ngai
- Philosophical aesthetics
- Text theory and analysis Affect Computational Analysis Digital Humanities Ecocriticsm Sensibility
Profile
In order to enhance understanding of the sensorial consequences of the ongoing climate crisis, my Ph.D.- project, tentatively titled A Dizzying Perspective: Geological Sensibility at the Dawn of the Anthropocene, studies the appearance and development of what I propose to call a geological sensibility in late 18th to early 19th century romantic literature. This refers to a new sense of temporal awareness which, brought to life by the geoscientific revolutions of the period, structures the way in which the romantic authors interpret and represent the natural world. On the basis of original archival work into the “roads” connecting geoscience, aesthetics and literature, and methodologically inspired by new insights into the relationship between representation and sense, I explore three distinct versions of such a geological sensibility - a sense of wonder, a sense of meaninglessness and a sense of interconnectedness - in a diverse array of romantic authors. These sensibilities, I argue, provide a prism in which the relations between the immense geological discoveries of the period and the sociocultural experience of the natural world are rendered visible – if not sensuous.
Feel very free to write me with any inquiries!
- Published
Sensing the World as Interconnected: Charlotte Smith's Geological Poetry
Ørtoft Rasmussen, S., Nov 2023, Romantic Ecologies. Selected Papers from the Augsburg Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism. Kerler, D. & Middeke, M. (eds.). WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, (Studien zur Englischen Romantik (Neue Folge)).Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
- In preparation
Planeten
Egholm Lund, S. (ed.), Ørtoft Rasmussen, S. (ed.), Skiveren, T. (ed.) & Frank, S. (ed.), Dec 2023, (In preparation) Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag. (Passage; No. 90).Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
- Published
Litteratursociologi og kvantitative litteraturstudier: Den historiske roman i det moderne gennembrud som case
Ørtoft Rasmussen, S. & Bjerring-Hansen, J., 2023, In: Passage. p. 171 189 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Fra kommando til kollaps: Otte aktuelle perspektiver på Søren Kierkegaards Frygt og Bæven
Lang, H. (ed.) & Ørtoft Rasmussen, S. (ed.), Apr 2021, København: IKK Tryk. 237 p.Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Anthology › Research
Geological Entanglements: Sensing the World as Interconnected in Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head
Sebastian Ørtoft Rasmussen (Lecturer)
28 Sept 2022 → 2 Oct 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Infrastructures of Earthly Love: Geophilia in Contemporary Art
Sebastian Ørtoft Rasmussen (Invited speaker)
7 Apr 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Tracing and Embodying Geological Sensibilities in Charlotte Smith and Ida Marie Hede
Sebastian Ørtoft Rasmussen (Lecturer)
13 Oct 2022 → 24 Oct 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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