Nicklas Freisleben Lund

Nicklas Freisleben Lund is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Copenhagen and has held postdoctoral positions at the Danish Aging Research Center and CPop. His research focuses on working-class literature, literary gerontology, and the politics of literature in Scandinavia.

Education: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (2018, University of Copenhagen), M.Sc. in Comparative Literature (2012), and B.A. in Comparative Literature (2009), all from the University of Copenhagen.

Research interests include the intersection of literature with class, aging, and political movements. He explores themes like strikes in literature, welfare state narratives, and the representation of life's final years through poetry and prose. His work bridges historical analysis with contemporary cultural criticism.

Recent publications examine socialist realism's interaction with Scandinavian labor literature, precarity in welfare-state contexts, and aging in Nordic literary traditions. He has contributed to encyclopedias like Den Store Danske and engages with public media through literary reviews and commentary.

Current roles include serving as Fagansvarlig at Lex.dk, Vice President of Martin Andersen Nexø-selskabet, and a literary critic for Jyllands-Posten since 2015.