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Dr. Alexander Kofod-Jensen is a researcher at the University of Agder's Department of Nordic and Media Studies, specializing in Holocaust perpetrator fiction through comparative studies of French and Scandinavian literature. Associated with the Research Council of Norway-funded project "Unfinished Past: Norway and World War II in Contemporary Aesthetic Memory Culture" (Project #324738), his work examines contemporary representations of WWII criminals and their cultural implications.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Literature, Karlstad University (Sweden), focusing on Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes
Research Expertise:
- Comparative Holocaust perpetrator fiction
- Scandinavian war crime literature
- Memory studies and trauma representation
- Postmodern narrative ethics
- 20th-century literary theory
- Historiographic metafiction
Publication Trends: His recent scholarship (2024-2025) analyzes evolving fictional portrayals of Nazis in Danish literature and the ethical risks of perpetrator perspectives. Earlier works explore Kafka's narrative structures (2012), Fredrika Bremer's literary realism (2017), and Sebald's memory archeology (2017).
Project Affiliation:
- "Unfinished Past: Norway and World War II in Contemporary Aesthetic Memory Culture" (Research Council of Norway)
