Jørgen Bruhn

Jørgen Bruhn (1968) 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 Swedish, Danish and English on intermedial questions. His work has been translated into Portuguese (for Brazilian readers) and Chinese.

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 and he co-edited a Danish volume Litteratur mellem Medier [Literature between Media] in 2017 (Tore Rye Andersen et al (ed) Aarhus Universitetsforlag). His latest  monograph, written with Anne Gjelsvik, is Cinema between Media. An Intermediality Approach (Edinburgh UP, 2018).

Recently, Bruhn co-edited three volumes: With Beate Schirrmacher he co-edited Intermedial Studies. An Introduction to Meaning across Media (Routledge, 2022). With Ida Bencke he co-edited Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices (punctum books, 2022) and Bruhn, Camilla Brudin Borg and Rikard Wingård gave out the Swedish anthology Ekokritiska metoder (Studentlitteratur, 2022).

He is currently leading the Linnæus University Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies in Växjö and he has in recent years been 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.