About the school
Tore Rye Andersen
!!Lektor, Afdelingsleder
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: the materiality and mediality of literature, and American literary history.
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.
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, not least the relation between postmodernism and the postironical literature that followed. My book Den nye amerikanske roman (The New American Novel) appeared in 2011, and since then 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.
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
- Art, Culture and Media > Literature > Books as a medium (including digital literature) History of the Book Paratexts The materiality of the book
- Art, Culture and Media > Literature > The literary market Serialization
- Art, Culture and Media > Literature > History of criticism
- Art, Culture and Media > Theory and Analysis of Culture
- Art, Culture and Media > Literature > Historiography of literature
- Art, Culture and Media > Literature
- Art, Culture and Media > Literature > Literary epochs Modernism Postmodernism Postironical literature 20th Century American literature Thomas Pynchon Don DeLillo David Foster Wallace Jonathan Franzen Jennifer Egan William Gibson Cormac McCarthy Vladimir Nabokov
- Art, Culture and Media > Literature > Text theory and analysis
- Art, Culture and Media > Theory and Analysis of Culture > High and low culture
- Art, Culture and Media > Theory and Analysis of Culture > Cultural forms of expression
- Countries and Regions > North America > USA
- Art, Culture and Media > Multimedia > Digital literature, narration/storytelling, hypertext Twitter fiction
- Art, Culture and Media > Multimedia Aesthetics and Digital Art > Media
- Accepted/In press
Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity and the Anthropocene
Andersen, T. R., 2023, (Accepted/In press) Cambridge University Press. 270 p.Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Book › 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
Pynchon's twenty-first century paratexts
Andersen, T. R., 2019, The new Pynchon studies. Freer, J. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 226-240 (Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions ).Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › 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
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
Efter verdens ende: Undergangsvisioner i nyere amerikansk litteratur
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
På Trappen: Thomas Pynchon
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
International Pynchon Week 2022
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation af a conference
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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