I am an associate professor in Danish literature, languages and literatures (L1 education/language arts). My research areas are literacy, particularly students' writing and writing development, and with an interest in the impact of digital technologies on literacy practices in the classroom. I am also engaged in literature as well as language and grammar teaching, and in the broader field of Danish as a school subject in primary and secondary education, viewed in a comparative perspective with other subjects and within both Nordic and international contexts.
I am an elected steering committee member in the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research (ISAWR), and member of the steering committee for the Nordic Network for Literature Education Research, where we carry out Nordic research collaborations and organise (bi-) annual seminars, also for PhD students. Additionally, I am a member of the steering committees for the Nordic Network for L1 Education Research, NNFF, and the local Danish network DaDi.
I hold a Masters’ degree in Danish, with a minor in Philosophy and Modern Culture from University of Copenhagen (2004), and I have teached as senior lecturer in Danish at University College Copenhagen for a number of years, before being enrolled as a PhD student (2013-16) and a position as assistant professor (2018-2021) then associate professor (2021-) at Aarhus University.
Education:
2016: PhD, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University
2004: MA (cand. mag.) in Danish, University of Copenhagen
2000: BA in Danish (Philosophy and Modern Culture), University of Copenhagen
Stays abroad
Visiting fellow, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (2015)
Exchange student, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany (2000)
From 2022 to 2026, I am leading the qualitative text- and classroom study Writing Education, where we explore and develop new concepts for understanding the relationships between students' writing and metalinguistic repertoires in various writing situations in Year 5 and 8. The project is funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. In the years 2026-2029, I am PI respectively co-PI for two new research projects: In Hybrid text practices in the Danish L1 classroom. Polyphony, coherence and involvement when writing with generative AI, our research extends Writing Education by exploring hybrid text practices when young people write in collaboration with generative AI in the subject of Danish. We focus on how students manage multiple voices and create coherence in their writing, as well as on their involvement and sense of ownership in the choices they make in order to shape texts. The other project combine research in mathematics education with linguistics by investigating Mathematics-Specific Difficulties among Second Language Learners (PI: Uffe Thomas Jankvist). Both projects are funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark.
Danish Didactics (Master's level – 120 ECTS kandidat):
PhD courses, including joint Nordic collaborations on courses in theoretical and methodological approaches to literacy.
I supervise broadly within my research areas but also in other areas related to primary and secondary (L1/language arts) education.
