Jonas Hoeck

Research
My current research deals with natural science, technology, nature (or the non-human) and intermediality in new danish and nordic literature. It is a project that primarily examines the relationship between contemporary hybrid literature/art and what is broadly called new materialist philosophy in the danish author Amalie Smiths collected books. I have previously written about Thomas Mann and the history of medical science, Theodor Storm and ecocriticism, and about the relationship between politics and literature. As a result of my literary and cultural investigations, I occasionally write more popular articles for the mainstream media.
I am a member of the Research Group for Culture Studies (KuFo), the vice-chair of the board of the Graduate Student Association at KAU, and a member of KAU's grand committee.
In addition to my work, I also give lectures and talks, and here I have experience from Odense Central Library, University of Southern Denmark, Danish Cultural Institute, Askov Højskole, Oure Højskole, Vejen gymnasium, Folkuniversitetet in Karlstad and various university conferences.
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If you want to collaborate you are welcome to contact me at jonas.hoeck@kau.se or at www.jonashoeck.com
Research Areas
- Danish/German border literature
- Natural science and literature
- Medicine and literature
- Hybrid arts
- Literature and politics
- Nature and the non-human
Teaching
I have been both course responsible and teacher on the a and b courses in literature. I do the so called b-uppsats subvision and examination. I teach 20% of my full time here on KAU. And I have been teaching in the following:
- Ancient Greece and early christianity
- The Renaissance
- Shakespeare's drama and sonnet
- Romanticism
- Naturalism and Realism
- The Modern Breakthrough
- Modernisme
- Existentialism
- Ecocriticism
- Intermediality
- Reader-response theory
- Non-fiction novels
- How to write academic papers
Collaboration
Bio
Education/Academic qualification
- 2018 | Master in Comparative Literature, University of Southern Denmark
- 2016 | Guest Student, University of Oslo UIO
- 2015 | Bachelor in Comparative Literature, University of Southern Denmark
- 2015 | Exchange Student, Oslo and Akershus University College Campus in Pondicherry India
Teaching experience
- 2018 | Lead teacher, Literature and creative writing, Askov Højskole
- 2017 | Research Internship, Comparative Literature, University of Southern Denmark
- 2017 | Academic Supervisor, Comparative Literature, University of Southern Denmark
Conference attendance
- 2023 | Vadehavet i litteraturen - Flensborg University
- 2023 | Årskonference 2023: Myten og meningsløsheden - Århus University
- 2022 | Årskonference 2022: På tærsklen til post-liberalismen? - Århus University
- 2022 | Bildung, education and subject didactics in the Anthropocene epoch - Karlstad University
- 2021 | Time and History - Karlstad University
- 2020 | Litteraturvetenskap, miljö och hålbarhet - Göteborg University
- 2020 | Den svenska naturessän - Örebro University
- 2019 | The Uses of Aesthetics - Karlstad University
Publications
- Jonas Hoeck, 2020
- Jonas M. Hoeck, 2018
