Astrid Rasch

I'm an Associate Professor of Anglophone Cultural Studies at the Department of Language and Literature. 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 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 culture
• Decolonisation
• British, Australian, Caribbean, Zimbabwean and American history and society
• Autobiography
• Nostalgia

Research projects

• Leader of research network: Literatures of Change: Culture and Politics in Southern Africa (2019-2021)
• Leader of research network: Decolonial Research Group (2018-)
• Member of research project: Trondheim Analytica (2018-2022)
• Member of research project: The Embers of Empire (2013-2018)
• Ph.d. fellow: Autobiography After Empire: Individual and Collective Memory in Dialogue (2013-2016)

Editorial work

• Editor of the anthology Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain (with Stuart Ward, 2019)
• Editor of special issue of 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

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

Tóra Djurhuus: The Legacy of the Past in Brexit Britain (primary supervisor: Stuart Ward)

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