Signe Kjaer Jensen

Teaching

I teach courses in children's literature, comparative literature and film, often with a focus on intermediality, adaptation or reception.

Research

My research interests centers on music and sound as parts of intermedial and multimodal media constellations, and in particular on the role and function of sound and music in different types of animation films.

In my PhD project, I wrote about music in children's animation features, trying to locate the musical potential for meaning in the interaction between: formal, multimodal features of the films; the social context of the viewing situation; and the active interpretation and reception processes the child is engaged in. The project is based on an interdisciplinary framework drawing primarily on qualitative audience reception studies, multimodality studies and musicology, analysing a selected range of popular animation features from a 'textual' perspective as well as exploring children's verbalisations of their actual experiences of the films through qualitative group interviews.

You can find the full thesis as open access in the publication list below.