Anna Lena Sandberg

CV

Employment, Positions, and Fellowships

• Since 2014 Associate Professor of German Literature, Department for English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen

• Head of Section: German Studies

• Fall 2018-2019: Visiting Professor University of Kiel (CAU)

• Fall 2016  Visiting Professor UC Berkeley

• 2012-14  Assistant Professor of German Literature, University of Copenhagen

• Spring 2010  Combined Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

• 2009-12  Postdoc (funded by the Carlsberg Foundation), University of Copenhagen

• 2008-09 Administrative Officer, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

• 2005 Visiting Fellow, Albert-Ludwigs- Universität, Freiburg, Germany

• 2003-2008  PhD Scholarship (funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research), University of Copenhagen

• 2000-2002  High school Teacher at Aurehøj Gymnasium, Copenhagen

Education

• 2008   Ph.D, University of Copenhagen

• 2001   Professional postgraduate teacher training for high school teachers (Gl. Hellerup Gymnasium and Rysensteen Gymnasium, Copenhagen).

• 2000   Master of Arts, German and Danish, University of Copenhagen. Studies abroad: Spring 1995: Berlin (Humboldt Universität), Fall 1998: Kiel (Christian-Albrechts-Universität).

Grants and Funding

• 2009   2 years Postdoc grant from the Carlsberg Foundation

• 2003   3 years PhD grant funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research (FKK).

Memberships & Honorary Positions

• Member of the Board of Danish Lecturers abroad (Lektoratsudvalget, ansvarlig for den tysksprogede region), appointed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science.

• Head of Study for the section of Cultural History at the Danish University Extension Copenhagen (Folkeuniversitetet København),

• Co-founder and co-editor of Romantik. Journal for the Study of the Romanticism, Aarhus University Press 2012ff.

• Board member of Nordic Association of Romantic Studies (NARS)

• Board member of The Danish-German Society (Dansk-Tysk Selskab)

• Board member of the University of Copenhagen Alumni Associaton of German Studies (Tysk Alumneforening)

Books, edited books & journal:

• En grænsegænger mellem oplysning og romantik. Jens Baggesens tyske forfatterskab. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 2015

• With Karin Hoff & Udo Schöning (ed.): Literarische Transnationalität. Die kulturellen Dreiecksbeziehungen zwischen Skandinavien, Frankreich und Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2015.

• With Adam Paulsen (ed.) Natur und Moderne um 1900. Räume, Repräsentation, Medien. Transcript Verlag, Edition Kulturwissenschaft 2013

• With Detlef Siegfried (ed.): Tysk kulturhistorie fra 1648 til i dag. Gyldendal 2012.

• With Svend Skriver (ed.): Jens Baggesens liv og værk, Forlaget Spring 2010.

• Journal:

• Co-Editor of:  Romantik. Journal for the Study of the Romanticisms, Aarhus University Press, 2012ff.

Primære forskningsområder

Tysk litteratur og kulturhistorie, oplysningstid, romantik, idealisme, dansk-tyske relationer 1800 og 1900, transkulturalitet, transfer-studier, migration, litteratur og sted, økokritik.

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Tysk litteratur fra 18. århundrede til i dag, romantik, dansk-tyske litterære & kulturelle vekselvirkninger, transnational litteratur & migration, øko-kritik, fremmedsprogsdidaktik.

Træffetid: Tirsdag 13-14

Kort præsentation

My main research area is the interrelations between Danish and German literature and culture around 1800 and 1900, including migrant authors, cosmopolitanism, and transnational literature. My PhD dissertation (2008) on the bilingual border crossing author Jens Baggesen (1764-1826) was published in a revised and extended form entitled En grænsegænger mellem oplysning og romantik. Jens Baggesens tyske forfatterskab. (Museum Tusculanum Press 2015).

In the period around 1900 I am investigating the literary transfers and transmissions between Scandinavia, Germany and France. This research in cooperation with the University of Göttingen has resulted in three conference publications (Königshausen & Neumann 2013, 2015, 2016). Together with prof. Detlef Siegfried I have edited a book on German cultural history from 1648 to present for Danish readers (Gyldendal 2012), which is used as a history text book in university education in Denmark.

Another field of my research is German and Scandinavian Romanticism in a European context. I have co-founded and co-edit the journal Romantik. Journal for the Study of the Romanticisms (Aarhus University Press), aiming at the international dissemination of Nordic research and promoting a (global) dialogue on new investigations into the cultures of Romanticism. A third field of research is literature, eco-criticism and ecology in German and Scandinavian literature (ed. with Adam Paulsen: Natur und Moderne um 1900. Räume, Repräsentationen, Medien. Transcript Verlag 2013)