Forskning

INTRODUCTION

My work is in sociocultural linguistics. I specialize in semantics and pragmatics, discourse studies and I enjoy doing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work. I am currently working with cultural and intercultural approaches to words and meanings, with postcolonial and decolonial approaches to linguistics, and with sociolinguistic contributions to green and blue humanities. In Roskilde, I teach at Danish Studies, Global Humanities and the bachelor study program in the Humanities.

CURRENT AND RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• "Danish in the Making" (Velux), co-P1. 
• "Sustainable Linguistics" (NOS-HS), co-P1
• "Measuring Modernity" (Carlsberg), partner
• "Cultural Construction Grammar" (Carlsberg), fellow

GLOBAL RESEARCH NETWORKS

I'm a part of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) research community, The International Association for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics and the International Pragmatics Association. In the past, I have contributed to major research projects such as the 'Evolution of Semantics Systems' (Max Planck, Nijmegen), 'Cognitive Creolistics' (Aarhus) and 'An Ethnography of Language Encounters' (Roskilde). I've been a visiting researcher at the Australian National University (Canberra), Griffith University (Brisbane), and the University of the South Pacific (Port Vila). I've been a visiting professor at Helsinki University, Tallinn University, and Ilisimatusarfik (Greenland's University). I'm an alumnus of The Young Academy of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute of Advanced Studies and the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. 

JOURNALS

• Founding editor & editor-in-chief Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics 2015- 
• Editor, Scandinavian Studies in Language 2014-2023

MONOGRAPHS

• Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition: A case study on the Danish Universe of Meaning. Published by De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin (Trends in Linguistics)  
• Postcolonial Semantics: Meaning and Metalanguage in a Multipolar World. Published by De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin (Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik/Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics)

EDITED BOOKS

• Creole Studies: Phylogenetic Approaches. Published by J. Benjamins, Amsterdam. With Peter Bakker (Aarhus), Finn Borchsenius (Aarhus) and Eeva Sippola (Bremen).
• Cultural Keywords in Discourse. Published by J. Benjamins, Amsterdam. (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series). With Sophia Waters (University of New England). 
• Tanker i lockdown. [Thoughts in Lockdown]. Published by Baggrund, Aarhus. With Casper Andersen (Aarhus), Liselotte Jauffred (Copenhagen), Andreas Hougaard Laustsen (DTU-Copenhagen), Stine Lomborg (Copenhagen), and Birgitte Beck Pristed (Aarhus).
• The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger. 2024. Published by J. Benjamins, Amsterdam (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series). With Zhengdao Ye (Australian National University). 

PAPERS & BOOK CHAPTERS

I've published in journals such as Language Sciences, International Journal of Language and Culture, Intercultural Pragmatics, Language and Communication, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Studies, Scandinavian Studies in Language and Nordic Journal of Linguistics. I've also published chapters in edited books, such as the ‘The Semantics of Nouns’, Z. Ye (Oxford University Press), 'Languages - Cultures - Worldviews', A. Glaz (Routledge), 'Unlearning Languages that Control the Mind', V. Sutanovac (Routledge), and encyclopedias such as International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, and International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication.  

ONGOING PUBLICATION PROJECTS   

• "Blue Pragmatics: Speaking of the Sea and Plantetary Waters", special issue, Pragmatics & Society, with Stephanie Maskova (Griffith).
• "Cultural Construction Grammar: A study in Nordic language and life". A new monograph. Stay tuned.
• "Magical Speech Acts", edited book with Nico Nassenstein (Mainz), for De Gruyter Mouton (Interdisciplinary Linguistics) 
• "The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial and Decolonial Linguistics", with Eeva Sippola (Helsinki).
• "Intercultural Semantics: Meaning and Metalanguage in the Context of Migration", with Susana S. Fernández (Aarhus).

VERY SHORT CV 

• 2015-, Associate Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark
• 2011-2015, Assistant Professor, postdoc and lecturer, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 2007-2010, PhD student, University of New England, Australia 

RESEARCH  STAYS 

• 2025 (June), ANU Hansen Friendship Scholar, Australian National University
• 2024 (Sep/Oct), Visiting Researcher, University of Helsinki 
• 2023 (May), Visting Researcher, Griffith Univeristy, Brisbane
• 2023 (April), Visiting Researcher, Australian National University
• 2019-2020 (7 months), Senior Research Fellow, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute of Advanced Studies, Bremen, Germany.
• 2018 (3 weeks), Guest professor, Illisimatusarfik (Greenland’s University).
• 2017 (10 days), Erasmus+ guest professor, School of Humanities, Tallinn University.
• 2014-2018 (in total, 6 months), Visiting researcher, The Pacific Languages Unit, The University of the South Pacific.
• 2013 (May), ANUCES Fellow, European Studies Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra.

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

• 2022- The Danish Lecturer Scheme (Danish Language, Literature and Culture Abroad), Board Member, and presentative for the English-Speaking world and for German-speaking Europe). 
• 2020- The Danish Language Council, Member of the Board of Representatives
• 2017-2022, The Young Academy of Denmark under the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Member and Council Member (2019-2020).