Jesper Gulddal

Professor Jesper Gulddal, a comparatist and literary historian at the University of Newcastle since 2010, specializes in cultural mobility studies with emphasis on intercultural perceptions, travel literature, and global literary circulation. His research extends to world crime fiction studies, supported by an ARC Discovery Project grant (2025-2027) with Monash University collaborators.

• PhD, University of Copenhagen
• Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
• 2016 National Citation for Outstanding Teaching
• 2022 Acting Head of School
• 2021 Deputy President (Teaching & Learning), Academic Senate

His research interests include passport systems in literature, movement control in 18th-20th century fiction, and anti-Americanism in European works. His 2025 Oxford University Press critical edition of Jens Baggesen's The Labyrinth exemplifies this scholarship.

Notable scientific awards include:

• 2021 International Crime Fiction Association Book Prize
• 2020 Jens Baggesen Prize
• 2021 AdvanceHE Senior Fellowship

As an educator, he has supervised 8 PhD completions and advocates non-traditional pedagogies for literary theory instruction. His grants (19 total, $421,319) include multiple New Colombo Plan mobility projects and collaborative crime fiction research initiatives.