Astrid Rasch

About

I'm an Associate Professor of Anglophone Cultural Studies at the Department of Language and Literature. My research examines memory culture at the end of the British Empire with a particular focus on memoirs from Zimbabwe, Australia and the Caribbean, and post-imperial memory politics in contemporary Britain. I hold a master and a PhD in English from the University of Copenhagen. In addition, I have studied at Monash University, Melbourne and been a visiting doctoral fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. I am a co-chair of the Nordic regional group of the Memory Studies Association.

I teach the courses ENG1404 (Britain and the World after 1945) and ENG2455 (Memory Politics After Empire). In addition, I am happy to supervise masters theses within the areas of society and culture of the English-speaking world, postcolonial studies, imperial history, and modern literature, in particular life writing and postcolonial literature.

Professional interests

Memory politics
Decolonisation
British, Australian, Caribbean and Zimbabwean history and society
Autobiography
Nostalgia
Online memory culture

Research projects

Leader of research project: Trondheim Analytica (2018-2024)
Leader of research network: Literatures of Change: Culture and Politics in Southern Africa (2019-2023)
Co-organiser of research network: Anglophone Political Cultures
Leader of research network: Decolonial Research Group (2018-2020)
Member of research project: The Embers of Empire (2013-2018)
PhD fellow: Autobiography After Empire: Individual and Collective Memory in Dialogue (2013-2016)

Editorial work

Editor of the special issue on Writing Repression in Zimbabwe for Journal of Southern African Studies (with Minna Niemi and Jocelyn Alexander, 2021)
Editor of the anthology Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain (with Stuart Ward, 2019)
Editor of special issue on Life Writing After Empire for Life Writing (2016)
Guest editor of Kvinden&Samfundet (Woman and Society) (2009)

Scholarly and professional work

I provide expert commentary on British and Zimbabwean affairs on Danish national television and radio.
Together with colleagues and students, I have helped set up platforms for Scandinavian students and researchers concerned about climate change. I have written op-eds on the narrative challenges of tackling climate change.

PhD students

Tóra Djurhuus: The Legacy of the Past in Brexit Britain (primary supervisor: Sara Dybris McQuaid). Defended 3 June 2022.

Anna Bil-Jaruzelska: Emotion and Identity Politics on Social Media

Kristine Graneng: Migration sentiments and attitudes towards European integration: Migration discourses in EU referenda (primary supervisor: Pieter de Wilde)

Publications

2021

Rasch, Astrid. (2021) Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs. Journal of Southern African Studies
Academic article
Rasch, Astrid. (2021) Anxious Reading: Interrogating Selective Empathy in Trauma Memoirs. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
Academic article
Rasch, Astrid; Niemi, Minna Johanna; Alexander, Jocelyn. (2021) Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature. Journal of Southern African Studies
Editorial

2020

Rasch, Astrid. (2020) Increasing student preparation and participation through flipped classroom and other measures. Læring om læring
Article in business/trade/industry journal

2019

Ward, Stuart; Rasch, Astrid. (2019) Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain. Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Ward, Stuart; Rasch, Astrid. (2019) Introduction: Greater Britain, Global Britain . Bloomsbury Academic
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Rasch, Astrid. (2019) “Keep the balance”: The Politics of Remembering Empire in Post-Colonial Britain. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
Academic article

Books

Ward, Stuart; Rasch, Astrid. (2019) Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain. Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Rasch, Astrid. (2017) Life Writing After Empire. Routledge Routledge
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

Part of book/report

Ward, Stuart; Rasch, Astrid. (2019) Introduction: Greater Britain, Global Britain . Bloomsbury Academic
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

Rasch, Astrid. (2016) Autobiography After Empire: Individual and Collective Memory in Dialogue. Copenhagen University
Doctoral dissertation

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Astrid Rasch

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Professional interests

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Editorial work

Scholarly and professional work

PhD students

Competencies

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