Romantik 2020

Dr Gísli Magnússon is Professor of Danish Literature at the University of Iceland. His research encompasses authors such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Pascal Mercier, Peter Høeg & Karl-Ove Knausgård – often focusing on esotericism and spirituality in a literary context.

Dr Benedikt Hjartarson is Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland. He is the author of a number of articles on the European avant-garde and aesthetic modernity.

Dr Thor J. Mednick is an Associate Professor of Art History and Head of Art Museum Practices at the University of Toledo, USA. He specializes in the art of nineteenth-century Scandinavia.

Dr Lis Møller is Professor of Comparative Literature and Head of Center for Nineteenth-Century Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She specializes in European and Scandinavian romanticm and romantic medievalism.

Dr Elisabeth Oxfeldt is professor of Scandinavian literature at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Dr Anna Sandberg is Associate Professor of German Studies at The University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research areas are Romanticism, literary transfer and Scandinavian-German culture from 1800 to present.

Dr Kim Simonsen is a Senior Research Associate in European Letters at the Department of History and European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He works with cultural history and theory, 19th Century European travelers and the Anthropocene, romantic nationalism and the history of philology,19th Century canon formation.