Agnethe Bennedsgaard

Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard guest researcher at LNUC Concurrences

PhD candidate Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard is visiting LNUC Concurrences from the Department of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University as a guest researcher during the fall term.

Agnethe will be based in Växjö from late-August until 1 November. Agnethe’s PhD project is within the fields of speculative fiction, feminism, decoloniality and climate crisis. Her project investigates how contemporary translated climate literature from Latin America and East Asia can transform the cultural understanding of the climate crisis by connecting the abstract planetary crisis with intimate bodily experiences through negative affect.

During her visit, Agnethe will be hosted by Rebecca Duncan, and based within the Aesthetics of Empire research cluster, where she shares interests with Johan Höglund, Elliott Berggren, and Mike Classon Frangos in particular. During her stay, she will be working on a book chapter about disgust and the unevenly distributed consequences of the climate crises, as well as a research article investigating the contemporary conditions of translated fiction on the Anglophone book market. Agnethe is looking forward to participating in Concurrences activities, and to joining the Global Humanities PhD seminar. She will be presenting her work at a joint HFL-Aesthetics of Empire seminar, which will take place on 23 October.