Contact and Press

For general inquiries, contact Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen.

We welcome inquiries from visiting scholars, potential collaborators, and researchers interested in affiliating with the center.

For journalists: researchers by topic

Journalists and other interested parties are welcome to contact our researchers directly for insight and commentary. Below, researchers are grouped by topic; their full profiles are on Members and Affiliates.

U.S. politics and the Trump era

• Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen: the rhetoric and cultural manifestations of political polarization; Donald Trump’s distinctive use of voice.
• Mark Eaton: “political voices” in crisis contexts; metaphor, history, and literary quotation in political communication.
• Inger H. Dalsgaard: the roles of American First Ladies; celebrity and conspiracy cultures; political styles of communication in the Trump era.
• Stephen Joyce: Trump’s foreign policy, Greenland and American exceptionalism (see American Currents); conspiracy theories.

U.S. history and society

• Jody Pennington: American history, media, and music.
• Christian O. Christiansen: intellectual history; the role of business in American society; human rights.
• Helle Strandgaard Jensen: the history of media and childhood in the United States; early internet cultures; Sesame Street.

Film, television, and popular culture

• Mathias Clasen: American horror and “recreational fear”; Stephen King.
• Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen: villains in American popular media.
• Jody Pennington: sex in American film; evil in popular culture.
• Stephen Joyce: media franchises, worldbuilding, and fan cultures.

Literature and the environment

• Tore Rye Andersen: Post45 American fiction, including Thomas Pynchon and Cormac McCarthy; the Anthropocene.
• Matthias Stephan: Gothic, sci-fi, and crime fiction; climate change fiction.
• Peter Mortensen: ecocriticism; Jack London and H. P. Lovecraft.
• Inger H. Dalsgaard: Thomas Pynchon; science and technology in literature.