Marie Bojsen-Møller

Marie Bojsen-Møller serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen. Her academic profile centers on the forensic analysis of threatening communications through interdisciplinary frameworks combining Danish Functional Linguistics and Rhetorical Genre Studies.

Her educational background includes a PhD from the University of Copenhagen's Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, where her dissertation examined threats as an illicit genre. This research formed part of the Carlsberg Foundation-funded project 'The Language and Genre of Threats,' establishing her expertise in high-stakes communication analysis.

Bojsen-Møller's research interests span Forensic Linguistics, Rhetorical Genre Studies, and Danish Functional Linguistics, with particular focus on threat communication in legal contexts. She investigates how threatening messages function as distinct linguistic genres, examining their grammatical structures, pragmatic functions, and interpretation challenges within judicial settings. Her work increasingly addresses digital threat landscapes on social media platforms.

Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals consistent specialization in threat discourse across multiple contexts - from courtroom interpretations to terrorist manifestos. Her scholarship demonstrates growing interdisciplinary reach, connecting linguistic analysis with counter-terrorism research while maintaining methodological rigor in Danish language contexts. Key trends include examination of humor in threats, temporal markers in threatening communications, and corpus-based analysis of authentic threat data.

Her academic activities include significant grant funding from the Carlsberg Foundation for the 'Language and Genre of Threats' project. She actively collaborates with interdisciplinary teams on terrorism analysis, as evidenced by co-authored publications on lone-actor terrorism and far-right manifestos. While no formal students are listed in current records, her teaching responsibilities include undergraduate courses in philosophy of science and Danish literary history.

Bojsen-Møller operates within research networks focused on threat analysis, contributing to both the Corpus of Danish Threats (CoDaTh) initiative and cross-institutional terrorism research. Her current work examines the intersection of genre conventions and legal interpretation processes, particularly regarding how threatening communications travel across different discourse domains while maintaining or transforming their perceived threat level.