Tobias Skiveren

Tobias Skiveren

Associate Professor

I'm a literary scholar working in the cross-section between postcritique, new materialism, and affect theory. I've written several books on (contemporary) Danish literature and published in journals like New Literary History, Environmental HumanitiesTheory, Culture & Society, and Literature and Medicine. I’ve recently finalized a fully funded two-year project that dealt with the relationship between literature, the welfare state, and (ill-)health. In the coming years, I’ll be leading a three-year project that seeks to green Danish literary history and develop new learning designs for its implementation in upper-secondary school. The project is called “Environmental Literacy in L1 Education: Greening Danish Literary History” and includes a postdoc (Louise Bang) and three active L1 teachers.

 

Projects and Research Grants:

PI: "Environmental Literacy in L1 Education: Greening Danish Literary History" (DFF, research project1, thematic)

PI: "Neoliberal Misfits: Literary Illness Narratives from the Nordic Welfare States" (DFF, international postdoc)

Co-applicant: "Young Literary Practices" (PI Stefan Kjerkegaard, DFF, research project2)

Co-applicant: "The Science of Fiction" (PI Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen, DFF, research project1)

Co-applicant: "The Rise of Science and Fiction during the Danish Enlightenment" (PI Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen, VELUX, core group)

Selected publications

  1. Postcritique and the Problem of the Lay Reader

    Skiveren, Tobias, 2022, In: New Literary History. 53, 1

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  2. Fictionality in New Materialism: (Re)Inventing Matter

    Skiveren, Tobias, 2022, In: Theory, Culture and Society. 39, 3, 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    New Materialism and the Eco-Marxist Challenge: Ontological Shadowboxing in the Environmental Humanities

    Skiveren, Tobias, Jul 2023, In: Environmental Humanities. 15, 3

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. Accepted/In press

    The Doxa of Dignity: Dying Well with Susan Sontag and Maria Gerhardt

    Skiveren, Tobias, 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Literature and Medicine. 42, 2

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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