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Nicklas Freisleben Lund is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on the social and political dimensions of literature, particularly topics related to inequality, marginalization, and labor, with a keen interest in the intersection of gender, age, and ethnicity. His expertise lies primarily in Danish and Scandinavian literature from the late 1800s to the present. Lund has published extensively on the themes of Western European and American social literature, exemplified by his monograph 'Ambivalent Battle: The Strike Novel, 1850–1950' which investigates the transnational literary topos of strikes. His work also delves into Danish working-class literature and representations of precarization, as well as female proletarian fiction. Lund has engaged in literary gerontology, contributing to the discourse with works like 'Final Sentence: Old Age, Finality, and Narrative Desire in the Contemporary End-of-Life Novel'. He has been active in academia since 2014 and is currently involved in multiple research projects exploring Scandinavian literatures within the context of welfare states and cultural history. Lund's academic qualifications include a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Copenhagen. He has held various external positions, including roles as a literary critic and has been involved in conference presentations and teaching.
University of Southern Denmark • Odense, DK
Teaching and conducting research in Comparative Literature.
Jyllands-Posten • Odense, DK
Contributing literary reviews and criticism for a major Danish newspaper.
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