Henrik Blicher

Short presentation

Primary fields of research

• Early modern literary history
• Danish author Jens Baggesen (1764-1826). Scholarly edition of his travelogue The Labyrinth vol. 1-2, 1792-93 (published 2016)
• Nordic baroque literature
• Romanticism in Denmark and elsewhere
• Danish-German poet Schack von Staffeldt (1769-1826). Scholarly edition 2001  
• Rhetoric as a literary, i.e. mainly compositional device
• Allegorical forms
• Paratextual matters

Current research

• A scholarly edition of Jens Baggesen’s travelogue The Labyrinth vol. 1-2, 1792-93
• Labyrintens fortsættelse (The Continuation of the Labyrinth), cf. link p. 97 (in Danish)
• Jens Baggesen and Don Quixote, cf. “The Fine Art of Writing a Will. Jens Baggesen’s Adaptation of Don Quijote in The Labyrinth”
• The rise of the journal in 18th century Denmark
  
  

Teaching and supervision

• Literary history 1500-1900
• Stylistics
• Literary historiography
• Rhetoric
• Book history and philology
  
  

CV

Education

• MA in nordic literature, 1991. Allegorcial modes of representation in 18th Century Danish literature
• PhD in nordic literature, 1997. A scholarly edition of Schack von Staffeldt’s poems accompanied by textual and literary studies

Employment

• External lecturer at Institute of Nordic Philology – University of Copenhagen. Fall term 1991
• PhD Scholar at Institute of Nordic Philology – University of Copenhagen, 1992 
• Philological assistant at The Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, 1994. Notes and introductions to the Kierkegaard edition, 1995 
• Associate professor (temporary) at Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, 1998
• Associate professor (permanent) at Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, 2001
• Head of Studies, 2009-14, at Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Department of Nordic Research and Centre for Language Technology – University of Copenhagen
  
  

External assignments

• Member of Society for Danish Language and Literature (Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab)  
• Editor of the journal Danske Studier (Danish Studies) in cooperation with Simon Skovgaard Boeck 
• Member of the publishing society Universitetsjubilæets Danske Samfund (UJDS)  
• In the grant comittee of Svend Grundtvigs og Axel Olriks Legat together with Anders Holm Rasmussen
• Member of Nordisk Netværk for Editionsfilologer 
• Member of Danish Society for 18th Century Studies (Dansk Selskab for 1700-talsstudier), part of International Society for 18th Century Studies (ISECS)   
• Supervisor of scholarly editions of Ludvig Holberg, Johan Herman Wessel, Adam Oehlenschläger and Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)    
• Member of Group no. 11 concerned with Nordic Literature and Language (including Nordic Philology) at The Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI)
• Awarded the Jens Baggesen-prize 2014

Knowledge of languages

Danish, English, French, German (reluctantly) and Italian (con amore)