Jan Rosiek

Primary fields of research

Scandinavian Cultural and Aesthetic Modernity, Danish and International Poetry, The Spatial Turn, Narratology, Literary Theory,  Literary Historiography, Literature and Philosophy, Literature and Rhetoric

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Education 

2000 DPhil, University of Copenhagen

1991 PhD, University of Aarhus

1984 MA, English, University of Aarhus

Employment

2009-        Professor, Dept. of Nordic Studies and Linguistics

1998-2009 Associate Professor, Dept. of Nordic Philology

1994-1997 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Nordic Philology 

1992-1993 SHF Grant, Dept. of Nordic Philology, University of Copenhagen

1990-1992 Extramural Lecturer, Dept. of Nordic Philology, Univesity of Copenhagen

1989          Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Yale

1987-1989 Ph.D. student, University of Aarhus

1985-1986 Assistant Teacher, University of Aarhus

Knowledge of languages

fluency in reading and writing Danish and English

reading German, French, Swedish and Norwegian

Current research

Literary Pathos

Issues of Narratology: Focalization, Free Indirect Discourse, Unreliability

The Theory and Practice of Apostrophe

The Implications of the Spatial Turn for Literary Criticism

Teaching

Literary Analysis and Theory

Danish and International Poetry

Modernism in Theory and Practice

Danish Short Prose

Major Authors: Kierkegaard, Jacobsen, Claussen, Jensen, Bjørnvig, Nordbrandt