Primary fields of research

My primary research interest concerns rhetoric's role in public life. I am especially interested in how rhetoric reveals the norms undergirding messages and discussions in the public realm, primarily in a political context. This is why I do most of my work in these areas: 

• Rhetorical criticism
• Rhetorical citizenship
• Public debate and dissent
• Rhetorical genres

Current research

My current research is on

• Official apologies
• Rhetorical citizenship as a theoretical and critical framework
• Political debate broadly construed, incl. dissent
• Populist rhetoric
• Rhetorical implications of Denmark's canon building initiatives

Teaching

At the BA level I have taught courses such as:

Introduction to Rhetoric, Speech Workshop, Public Speaking, The Philosophy of Science in Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, and the elective: Apologia and Official Apologies. 

At the MA level I have taught courses such as:

Rhetorical criticism and the elective Rhetorical Topic in these instantiations: Rhetoric and the Postmodern, Rhetorical Citizenship and The Rhetoric of Official Apologies.

At the doctoral level I have taught various courses in Denmark and Sweden on topics including rhetorical criticism, rhetorical agency, political rhetoric and rhetorical methods of analysis.

My most recent advising at the BA, MA and Ph.d. levels has been on these topics:

• Rhetorical citizenship online
• The Pope's letter to the Irish Catholics
• Election ads for the party Liberal Alliance
• NGO rhetoric and online agency 
• Barack Obama's use of narrative 
• Secular apocalyptic rhetoric 
• Intercultural dialogue as rhetorical form 
• Business blogs and the empoyees communicative agency 

CV

Education

2000   Ph.d.  Northwestern University, USA, Department of  Communication Studies. Title: “The Rhetoric of Seduction”

1995   MA  Northwestern University, USA, Department of Communication Studies. Title: “Robert G. Ingersoll’s Eulogy for Walt Whitman: Toward a Popular Aesthetic of Communication”

1993   BA  University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Philosophy, Education and Rehtoric (Rhetoric and Law)

Academic appointments:

Head of Studies: Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Feb. 2013. - Jan. 2016

Associate Professor of Rhetoric: Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, August 2005 - present

Amanuensis: Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Dec. 2004 - July 2005

Assitant Professor of Rhetoric: Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Aug. 2000 - Dec. 2004

Amanuensis: Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Aug. 1999 - July 2000

External Lecturer: Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Sept. 1998  - July 1999

Teaching Assistant: Northwestern University, Sept. 1993 - June 1998                       

Professional development 

2011: ”Supervision of Ph.D. students” Two day course

2009-10 Research Management Course ­– Nine course days. 

2008 Implement's Project leader training program. Seven course days. 

Other activities

2012-present: Head of Section and Ph.d. coordinator,  Section of Rhetoric, Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen

2012-2015   Leader of the research group Rhetoric Forum, Section of Rhetoric, Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen

2011-2014  Editor in chief, Rhetorica Scandinavica, Journal for rhetoric research  

2007-2012 Leader of Leder af the research group Public Debate, Section of Rhetoric, Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen

2007-2009 Leader of the research network "Rhetorical Citizneship. Perspectives on Deliberative Democracy" (FKK grant), including an internationalconference "Rhetorical Citiznehsip and Deliberative Democracy" UCPH, Oct. 2008. 

2005 -2015  National editor at Rhetorica  Scandinavica, Nordic journal for research in rhetoric 

Service etc. 

2012 -2016 : Member of Board of Directors, Rhetoric Society of America

Feb. 2011 – Nov. 2014: Member of RSA International Task Force