Mads Rosendahl Thomsen - Curriculum Vitae#


  • M.A. 1998, Ph.D. 2002 in Comparative Literature, Aarhus University
  • Thesis awarded with The University of Aarhus Research Foundation's Ph.D. Prize in 2003
  • Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, 2001 and 2004
  • 2003-06: Post.doc. financed by the Carlsberg Foundation
  • 2007-09: Assistant Professor
  • 2009-: Associate Professor

Selected conferences and guest lectures

  • Organizer and speaker, "The Posthuman Condition" featuring Francis Fukuyama and Stelarc, Aarhus University, 6-7 May 2010
  • Speaker, ACLA, New Orleans, 1-4 April 2010
  • Speaker, "Transcultural Memory", University of London, 4-6 February 2010
  • Invited speaker, "Foundational Texts in World Literature", University of California Santa Barbara, 18-20 November 2009
  • Speaker, "Literature in Context", ICLA at Aarhus University, 22 May 2009
  • Invited panellist, ACLA, Cambridge, Mass. 26-29 March 2009
  • Invited speaker, "World Literature in Between", Istanbul, 18-20 December 2008
  • Guest lecturer, Stanford University, 26-27 May 2008
  • Guest lecturer, University of Oslo, 13 March 2008
  • Co-organizer of international graduate seminar, Aarhus University, 16-21 June 2007
  • Guest lecturer, Stanford University, 11-18 April 2006
  • Participant with paper, "Studying Transcultural Literary History", Stockholm, 2-4 November 2004
  • Guest lecturer, University of Stockholm, 19 November 2003

Other activities

  • Principal of the "Network for Cultural Memory Studies" at Aarhus University since August 2008: http://www.memory.au.dk/events
  • Editor of the academic journal Passage since 1995 (category B at ESF's rating list, October 2008; category 2 (highest) at the Danish Research Council's list, November 2009; awarded best cultural journal at the Copenhagen Book Fair, November 2002)
  • Literary critic for the Danish daily Kristeligt Dagblad since 2005
  • Member of the Danish Society for Literary Critics since 2007


Peer reviewer

Aarhus University Press
American Political Science Review
European Science Foundation
Orbis Litterarum

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