Anne Jerslev - Biography#

Anne Jerslev is a professor of film and media studies at the University of Copenhagen. With a PhD on David Lynch, her film research has covered all major areas - history, genre, auteur, audiences. In the last ten years, her research interests have increasingly widened to encompass interstices between various media modes and forms of reception as witnessed, for example, in her direction of a major research project on High Tension Aesthetics. Media and Ethics in Contemporary Culture, and in her participation in major international comparative audience studies on Lord of the Rings and the World Hobbit Project. She has published monographs and (co-)edited volumes with leading publishers at home and abroad.

She has serviced the academic community through membership of highranking funding bodies such the Swedish Riksbanken Jubilee Foundation and the Danish Council for Independent Research - Culture and Communication, and served as department head and director of studies at the Dept. of Media, Cognition, and Communication, University of Copenhagen.