INTRODUCTION

My work is in sociocultural linguistics, broadly conceived. I specialize in semantics and pragmatics, discourse studies and postcolonial language studies, and I enjoy doing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work. In Roskilde, I teach at Danish Studies, Global Humanities and the bachelor study programme in the Humanities.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• "Danish in the Making" (Velux), co-P1. 
• "Sustainable Linguistics" (FRC), co-P1
• "Measuring Modernity" (Carlsberg), partner

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), and the University of the South Pacific (Port Vila). I've been a visiting professor at Tallinn University and Ilisimatusarfik (Greenland's University). I'm an alumnus of The Young Academy of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute of Advanced Studies. 

JOURNALS

• Founding editor, and editor-in-chief Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics  
• Editor, Scandinavian Studies in Language 

MONOGRAPH

• Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition: A case study on the Danish Universe of Meaning. Published by De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin (Trends in 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 The Young Academy, Copenhagen. With Casper Andersen (Aarhus), Liselotte Jauffred (Copenhagen), Andreas Hougaard Laustsen (DTU-Copenhagen), Stine Lomborg (Copenhagen), Birgitte Beck Pristed (Aarhus).

SPECIAL ISSUES

• Language Ideologies in Music: Emergent Socialities in the Age of Transnationalism. Special issue of Language and Communication, with Eeva Sippola (Bremen) and Britta Schneider (Berlin).
• Biases in Linguistics: Special issue of Language Sciences, with Simon Borchmann (Roskilde) and Britta Schneider (Berlin)
• The Social Life of Interjections: Special issue of Scandinavian Studies in Language, with Eva Skafte Jensen (DSN-Copenhagen) and Tina Thode Hougaard (Aarhus).
• Cognitive Cultural Semantics: Special issue of Scandinavian Studies in Language, with Susana S. Fernández (Aarhus) and Jan Hein (Griffith)
• The Pragmatics of Place: Postcolonial Perspectives. Special issue in Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics, with Eeva Sippola, (Helsinki).
• Language and Popular Geopolitics: Special issue in Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics, with Susana S. Fernández (Aarhus)

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, 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) and encyclopedias such as International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication.  

ONGOING PUBLICATION PROJECTS  

• 'Postcolonial Semantics' (a monograph) 
• 'The Pragmatics of Danger' - an anthology, with Zhengdao Ye (Australian National University).
• 'Visual Semantics' - special issue with Mari Uusküla (Tallinn)
• 'Magical Speech Acts' - panel with Nico Nassenstein (Mainz)

VERY SHORT CV 

• 2015-: Associate Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark
• 2019-2020: Senior Research Fellow, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg IAS, Bremen, Germany.
• 2017-2022: Member of the Young Academy of Denmark under the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
• 2011-2015: Assistant Professor, postdoc and lecturer,  Aarhus University, Denmark
• 2007-2010: PhD student, University of New England, Australia