Helene Høyrup

Helene Høyrup

Lektor

Aalborg

Phone: 98773047

Research and education information

  • Children's literature: history, poetics, theory, sociology and communication
  • Children's media and culture 
  • Childhood studies in an interdisciplinary perspective 
  • The sociology of knowledge and media
  • Literacy in the light of verbal, visual and digital epistemologies

Cultural and media studies, the sociology of literature, knowledge and media, children's literature and culture.  Extensive experience as a lecturer at universities in Denmark and internationally.

Research areas

A:

"Children's Literature, Text and Canon: Studies in the Sociology of Knowledge":  The project seeks to combine a study of the history and poetics of children's literature with the theory and sociology of knowledge. 

Viewing children's literature as a medium in which two powerful ideological positions intersect: our ideas about childhood and about literature, the project analyses interferences between the development of the mainstream literary canon, the text or poetics of children's literature and the knowledge produced about these texts in different theoretical paradigms and cultural practices, such as children's literature studies and library communication. 

Further focal points are the theoretical frames used to write children's literature into the critical mainstream today and how these relate to the late modern media landscape.
 
B:
 
"Children's Library 2.0.  Digital Communication, Innovation and Learning", The Danish Cultural Ministry and The Strategic Research Council

Curriculum

1999 -
Associate professor in children's culture, Department of Cultural and Media Studies, Royal School of Library and Information Science
 
2012-2013:
Dodson Visiting Professor, The University of British Columbia
 
2008:
PhD in Library and Information Science.  Project title: "Children's Literature, Text and Canon.  Studies in the Theory of Knowledge of Children's Culture"

 
2008-2009:
Research scholarship, The Danish Cultural Ministry's Research Fund and The Strategic Research Council.  Project title: "The Children's Library 2.0.  Digital Communication, Innovation and Learning"

2003 -
External examiner, Master in Children's Literature, Centre for Children's Literature, Denmark's Pedagogical University

2000-2004:
Co-ordinator and part-time lecturer in children's culture and cultural studies, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, The University of Southern Denmark

1998-1999:
Assistant professor in Danish, Aarhus University College of Education

1995-1998:
Lecturer in Danish and Scandinavian studies, Department of Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

1991, 1994-1995:
Part-time lecturer in literary analysis and textual history, Department of Nordic Literature and Language, The University of Aarhus.  Supervision of literary projects at the department of Danish, Aalborg University 

1987-1995:
Assistant professor in Danish and English, Handelsgymnasiet Mariager Fjord

1991 -
External examiner at Danish university colleges of education

1986:
Cand. mag. in Danish and English, The University of Aarhus