Jørgen Bruhn

Jørgen Bruhn has done research on Marcel Proust, M.M. Bakhtin, medieval French literature (Chrétien de Troyes), literary theory and history of the novel. Bruhn's earlier books include Lovely Violence. The Critical Romances of Chrétien de Troyes (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), and (with Anne Gjelsvik and Eirik Frisvold Hanssen as co-editors) Adaptation Studies. New Approaches, New Challenges (Bloomsbury 2013).

For several years now, Bruhn's work has focused on questions of intermediality and interart and he has published several articles and edited volumes in both Swedish, Danish and English on intermedial questions.

More recently, his book Intermediality and Narrative Literature: Medialities Matter, which includes case studies of Nabokov, Carver, Tobias Wolff and Jennifer Egan, was published in Palgrave MacMillan's Pivot series in 2016. Bruhn’s latest books is the co-edited volume Litteratur mellem Medier [Literature between Media] (Tore Rye Andersen et al (ed) Aarhus Universitetsforlag 2017).

His latest book is the monography, written with Anne Gjelsvik, Cinema between Media. An Intermediality Approach (Edinburgh UP, 2018).

Currently, Bruhn is intensely occupied with the pathways between intermedial studies and contemporary ecocriticism, including the notion of the Anthropocene. With colleagues from the Ims-reseach cluster he is trying to establish a methodological and theoretical approach, Intermedial Ecocriticism, which will enable researchers to describe, analyse, and compare media products across media types, including scientific articles, feature and documentary film, literature, popular science communication and of course literature and the arts.

My research groups

My ongoing research projects

My completed research projects

Project: Multispecies Storytelling in an Intermedial Perspective This environmental humanities project was done to seek new constellations inside and outside conventional academic and artistic circles…

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Bruhn, J., Hart, H. (2020). Melting, Blurring, Moaning. Annihilation as Narrative Adaptation to Planetary Crisis?. Diegesis. 9 (2). 1-15.
Status: Published
Bruhn, J. (2020). Intermedial økokritik : Repæsentationer af økokrisen i forskellige medier. Samlaren : Tidskrift för forskning om svensk och annan nordisk litteratur. 141. 137-164.
Status: Published
Bruhn, J. (2020). Intermedial Ecocriticism : The Anthropocene Ecological Crisis across Media and the Arts. Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media. 24 (2). 5-18.
Status: Published
Bruhn, J. (2018). Ecology as pre-text ? : The paradoxical presence of ecological thematics in contemporary Scandinavian quality TV. Journal of Aesthetics and Culture. 10 (2). 66-73.
Status: Published
Bruhn, J. (2016). Introduction to the Anthropocene theme. Ekfrase : Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. 7 (1-2). 7-9.
Status: Published
Bruhn, J., Gjelsvik, A. (2015). Ginsberg’s Animating Typewriter : Mixing Senses and Media in Howl (2010). Word and Image. 30 (4). 348-361.
Status: Published
Bruhn, J. (2015). ”’Seeing without Understanding’ : Mediality aspects of Literature and Memory in Vladimir Nabokov’s ”Spring in Fialta”. Orbis Litterarum. 70 (5). 380-404.
Status: Published
Bruhn, J., Gjelsvik, A. (2015). Å lese, se og høre film : En intermedial analyse av Dag Johan Haugeruds Som du ser meg. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. (4). 265-281.
Status: Published
Bruhn, J., Gjelsvik, A. (2013). David Simon’s Novel Cop Show. New Review of Film and Television Studies. 11 (2). 133-153.
Status: Published
Bruhn, J. (2013). Now a Major Soundtrack! – Madness, Music, and Ideology in Shutter Island. Adaptation. 6 (3). 320-337.
Status: Published
Bruhn, J. (2013). Post-Medium Literature? Two examples of Contemporary Scandinavian "Literature". Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica. 5 (1). 79-94.
Status: Published
Bruhn, J., Gjelsvik, A. (2012). “Jan Troell’s Fleeting Still Moments”. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. 2 (1). 55-72.
Status: Published
Andersson, R., Bruhn, J., Gjelsvik, A. (2012). The Wire og kriminalitetens afkroge. Passage. (68).
Status: Published
Bruhn, J., Gjelsvik, A., Thune, H. (2011). Parallel worlds of possible meetings in Let The Right One In. Word and Image. 27 (1). 2-14.
Status: Published
Bruhn, J. (2010). Medium, intermedialitet, heteromedialitet. Kritik. (198).
Status: Published

Conference paper (Refereed)

Bruhn, J. (2011). Keynoteföreläsning: Scandinavian Misanthropology.
Bruhn, J., Gjelsvik, A., Thune, H. (2009). Crossing the Windows of Perception. .
Bruhn, J. (2009). On Heteromediality. .
Bruhn, J. (2009). keynoteföreläsning: The Borders of Aesthetics in Cultural History. .
Bruhn, J. (2009). A Bakhtinian Reading of Torso. .
Bruhn, J. (2008). Proust on film.

Book (Refereed)

Bruhn, J., Gjelsvik, A. (2018). Cinema Between Media : An Intermediality Approach. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press.
Bruhn, J. (2016). The Intermediality and Narrative Literature : Medialities Matter. London, Palgrave Pivot.

Chapter in book (Refereed)

Bruhn, J., Schirrmacher, B. (2022). Media combination, transmediation and media representation. Intermedial Studies : An Introduction to Meaning Across Media. London, Routledge. 100-105.
Bruhn, J., Lutas, L., Salmose, N., Schirrmacher, B. (2022). Media Representation : Film, Music and Painting in Literature. Intermedial Studies : An Introduction to Meaning Across Media. Routledge. 162-193.
Bruhn, J., Gutkowska, A., Tornborg, E., Knust, M. (2022). Transmediation. Intermedial Studies : An Introduction to Meaning across Media. New York, Routledge. 138-161.
Bruhn, J., Salmose, N., Schirrmacher, B., Tornborg, E. (2022). Truthfulness and truth claims as transmedial phenomena. Intermedial Studies : An Introduction to Meaning Across Media. Routledge. 225-254.
Bruhn, J., Salmose, N. (2022). Intermedial ekokritik. Ekokritiska metoder. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 233-258.
Bruhn, J. (2021). Intermediala studier : en kort introduktion. Favorit i repris! : bruk och återbruk inom barnkulturen. Stockholm University. 16-25.
Bruhn, J. (2020). O que é midialidade, e (como) isso importa? : Termos teóricos e metodologia. A intermidialidade e os estudos interartes na arte contemporânea. Editora FGV.
Bruhn, J. (2020). “We’re Doomed – Now What?” : Transmediating Temporality Into Narrative Forms. Transmediations : Communication Across Media Borders. London, Routledge. 217-234.
Bruhn, J. (2020). Mind the Gap : Naturvetenskaplig kunskap och litteraturundervisning. Didaktiska perspektiv på hållbarhetsteman : i barn- och ungdomslitteratur. Natur och kultur.
Bruhn, J. (2020). Sammenløbsmuseum : C.Y. Frostholms intermediale økopoetik. Att skriva med ljus : 13 essäer om litteratur och fotografi. Makadam Förlag. 291-309.
Bruhn, J. (2020). Towards an Intermedial Ecocriticism. Beyond Media Borders, Volume 2 : Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media. London, Palgrave Macmillan. 117-148.
Bruhn, J., Rossholm, A.S. (2019). Mellan artefakt och arkefakt. Apropå Eric M. : en antologi om Eric M. Nilssons filmer. Röstånga, Trollrumma. 167-174.
Bruhn, J., Thune, H. (2018). In between Life and Death : Sophie Calle’s Rachel, Monique (2014). The Power of the In-Between : Intermediality as a Tool for Aesthetic Analysis and Critical Reflection. Stockholm, Stockholm University Press. 25-48.
Bruhn, J. (2018). “Visionary Cartography” : The Aesthetic Mediation of the Anthropocene in Kaspar Colling Nielsen’s Mount Copenhagen. Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment : Ecocritical Approaches to Northern European Literatures and Cultures. Lexington, Lexington Books.
Bruhn, J. (2017). Afterword : Notes on a pedagogical experiment – and on Superpowers of Ten. Intermedial Mediations of the Anthropocene. Belo Horizonte, Viva Voz. 79-90.
Bruhn, J. (2016). Mikhael Bachtin. Kulturteori og kultursociologi. København, Hans Reitzels Forlag. 253-280.
Bruhn, J. (2016). Adaption: et litterært grænsefænomen. Litteratur mellem medier. Aarhus, Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
Andersson, R., Bruhn, J., Gjelsvik, A. (2015). The Corners of Crime. The Wire and America's Dark corners : Critical Essays. New York, McFarland. 81-94.
Bruhn, J. (2015). Representation : Courtly Love as a Problem of Literary Sense-Representation. The Saturated Sensorium : Principles of Perception and Mediation in the Middle Ages. Aarhus, Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 112-129.
Bruhn, J. (2014). Meeting the Other in a Medieval Literary Chivalric Novel. Europe and its Interior Other(s). Aarhus, Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 23-35.
Bruhn, J. (2013). Dialogising Adaptation Studies : From One-way transport to a Dialogic Two-way process. Adaptation Studies : New Challenges, New Directions. Bloomsbury Academic. 69-88.
Bruhn, J. (2013). ”La lettre au cinéma n’est pas une excellente solution” : A Heteromedial analysis of Chantal Akerman’s Proust Adaptation. The Art of the Text : Visuality in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literary and Other Media. University of Wales Press. 201-215.
Gjelsvik, A., Bruhn, J. (2012). Listen Carefully : The Wires opgør med politiserien. Fjernsyn for viderekomne : Amerikanske tv-serier. Aarhus, 16:9. 115-129.
Bruhn, J., Gjelsvik, A. (2012). It’s not Television, It’s DVD : New and Old Ways of Representing in The Wire. Film in the Post Media Age. Cluj Napoca, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 343-356.
Bruhn, J. (2012). On the Borders of Art and Poetry. The Borders of Europe : hegemony, aesthetics and border poetics. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 217-230.

Collection (editor) (Refereed)

Bruhn, J., Bencke, I. (2022). Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices. Los Angeles and Amsterdam, Punctum Books. 1-320.
Brudin Borg, C., Bruhn, J., Wingård, R. (2022). Ekokritiska metoder. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 315.
Bruhn, J., Lutas, L. (2020). Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media : Vol. 24, Issue 2/2020, The Anthropocene and Intermedial Ecocriticism. Universitatea Babes-Bolyai. 63.
Bruhn, J., Löwe, C., Lutas, L., Rossholm, A.S., Salmose, N., et al. (2016). Ekfrase : Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. Bergen, Universitetsforlaget. 100.

Article, book review (Refereed)

Bruhn, J. (2016). Stacy Alaimo : Exposed : Environmental politics & pleasures in posthuman times. Ekfrase : Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. (1-2). 78-80.
Status: Published

Article in journal (Other academic)

Bruhn, J. (2021). Ur led er sinnet. 20tal. 4-5. 94-100.
Status: Published
Bruhn, J. (2009). Besat af besættelsen : Matador, von Triers juuropa og Hasles fiktive historieskrivning. Humanetten. (24). 27-29.
Status: Published
Bruhn, J. (2008). Intermedialitet : framtidens humanistiska grunddisciplin?. Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. 21 (1). 21-39.
Status: Published

Conference paper (Other academic)

Bruhn, J. (2010). Rethinking Adaptation. .
Bruhn, J. (2010). Intermedialitet/Heteromedialitet : Key Note föreläsning.
Bruhn, J. (2009). För intermedialiteten?. .

Book (Other academic)

Bruhn, J. (2010). Lovely Violence. The Critical Romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Bruhn, J., Bencke, I. (2022). Introduction: Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices. Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices. Los Angeles and Amsterdam, Punctum Books. 1-15.
Bruhn, J., Schirrmacher, B. (2022). Intermedial Studies. Intermedial Studies : An Introduction to Meaning Across Media. London, Routledge. 3-27.
Bruhn, J., Gjelsvik, A., Hanssen, E.F. (2013). "There and Back Again'" : New challenges and new directions in adaption studies. Adaption studies : new challenges, new directions. Bloomsbury Academic. 1-16.
Bruhn, J. (2012). Litterær medialitetsanalyse. Medialitet, intermedialitet og analyse. Akademiet for Æstetikfaglig forskeruddannelse. 50-68.
Eriksson, K.L., Bruhn, J. (2011). Intermediala perspektiv på Stefan och Herodes. Intermediala perspektiv på medeltida ballader. Möklinta, Gidlunds förlag. 146-178.
Bruhn, J. (2010). Heteromediality. Media, Modalities, and Modes. London, Palgrave Macmillan.
Bruhn, J. (2009). From reference to deferment: ekphrasis, authority, and fiction in Chrétien de Troyes. Negotiating Heritage : Memories of the middle ages. Turnhout, Belgien, Brepols. 81-103.
Bruhn, J. (2008). Tristan Transformed. Bodies and Media in the Historical Transformation of the Tristan and Isolde-Myth. Changing Borders. Contemporary Positions in Intermediality. Lund Intermedia Press. 20.

Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Bruhn, J. (2010). Förord. Ekelöf mellan konstartarna : fyra essäer. lund, Lund intermedia press. 5-9.

Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Bruhn, J., Lutas, L. (2016). Intermedialitet och litteraturanalys : [ ingår i Lärportalens modul Språk-, läs- och skrivutveckling (Läslyftet), Perspektiv på litteraturundervisning, Del 4: Intermedialitet och litteraturanalys, gymnasiet ]. Stockholm, Skolverket. 8.

Conference proceedings (editor) (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Bruhn, J., Askander, M. (2010). Ekelöf mellan konstartarna : fyra essäer. Lund, Lund intermedia press. 73.