CV
Steen Ledet Christiansen
2023
Tranumparken 3
9220 Aalborg, Denmark
steen@id.aau.dk
(+45) 9940 9177
Education
2006 PhD English, Aalborg University
2001 MA English, Aalborg University
1998 BA English, Aalborg University
Employment
2023- Professor of Culture, Media, and Aesthetics
2019-2023 Professor with specific responsibilities of Visual Popular Culture, AAU
2011-2019 Associate professor, Aalborg University
2008-2011 Assistant professor, Aalborg University
2001 Teaching assistant, University of Southern Denmark
Publications
Books
Kropsfilm (Spring, in production)
2024 The Morph-Image: The Subjunctive Synthesis of Time (Lexington Books, forthcoming)
Storytelling in Kabuki: An Exploration of Spatial Poetics of Comics (Nebraska University Press)
2021 The New Cinematic Weird: Atmospheres and Worldings. Lexington Books.
2019 Postbiological Science Fiction. Edwin Mellen Press.
2016 Drone Age Cinema: Action Films and Sensory Assault. I.B.Tauris.
Edited Volumes
2019 Rhythms. With Mirjam Gebauer & Rasmus Dahl Vest. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press.
2017 Special issue “Art’s Agency.” With Frederik Tygstrup & Jens Lohfert Jørgensen. Akademisk kvarter 16.
Skriverier i luften: Festskrift til Jørgen Riber Christensen, edited by Steen Christiansen, Ole Ertløv Hansen, Kim Toft Hansen, and Thomas Mosebo Simonsen. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press.
2016 Filmanalyser. With Jørgen Riber Christensen. Aarhus: Systime Academic.
2012 Monstrologi. With Jørgen Riber Christensen, Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, 2012.
Spøgelser. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, 2012.
2011 Kulturtrafik. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, 2011.
Special issue “Transgression.” With Charlie Blake. Akademisk Kvarter, 2011.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2023 “Temporal Looping and Pleating in Spring Breakers.” Interfaces — Image — Texte — Language 48.
“Unworlding in Nameless: The Negation of Worldbuilding.” Imagining the Impossible. International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary Media 2, 1.
2021 A MASSIVE Swirl of Pixels: Radiohead’s “Go to Sleep”. Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision. Bloomsbury Academic.
2020 “Unruly Vision, Synesthetic Space: Drone Music Videos,” The Senses and Society 15, no. 3.
“Wide Open Lines.” Life After Lines. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press.
“The Future of Extinction: William S. Burroughs’ The Western Lands.” Humanities 9(4): 1-16.
2019 “The Morph-Image: Four Forms of Post-Cinema.” Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides. Edited by Christina Rawls, Diana Neiva, Steven S. Gouveia.
Routledge.
“Creepy Atmospheres and Weird Narration in The OA.” Studies in the Fantastic 6, 95-115.
“iPhone Cinema and Tangerine: Imagology, actor-network theory, and the idea of trans-,”Renaissance Man: Studies in Literature and Culture in Honour of Anthony W. Johnson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
”Pleated Time and Posthuman Temporalities in OtherLife,” Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture. 4, 1, p. 59-77.
”Drone Rhythms: Edge of Tomorrow,” Rhythms Now: Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis Revisited. Christiansen, S. L. & Gebauer, M. (eds.). Aalborg Universitetsforlag, p. 95-110.
”Atmospheres and science fiction.” Cogent Arts & Humanities. 6, 1, p. 1-12.
2018 “Fringe: Tv-historie og science fiction”. Christensen, Jørgen Riber, Gunhild Agger & Louise Brix Jacobsen (eds.). Tv-analyser. Aarhus: Systime Academic.
“Mediating Potency and Fear: Action Movies’ Affect.” Cultural Studies 32(1), 43-62.
2017 “Sounds of Futures Past.” Akademisk kvarter 16.
“Stranger Things og firsernostalgi.” Skriverier i luften: Festskrift til Jørgen Riber Christensen, edited by Steen Christiansen, Ole Ertløv Hansen, Kim Toft Hansen, and Thomas Mosebo Simonsen. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press.
“Time Morphs.” Videographic Essay. In Media Res. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2017/03/31/time-morphs
“Pain and the Cinesthetic Subject in Black Swan.” Screen Bodies 1(2). 25-41.
2016 “Post-film og Scott Pilgrim vs the World.” Christensen, Jørgen Riber and Steen Ledet
Christiansen (eds.). Filmanalyser. Aarhus: Systime Academic.
“Filmanalysens metodologi — et historisk rids.” With Jørgen Riber Christensen. Filmanalyser. Aarhus: Systime Academic.
“Metamorphosis and Modulation: Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan.” Denson, Shane and Julia Leyda (eds), Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film. Falmer: REFRAME Books.
2015 “Déjà vu: Textures of Time”. Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, 6, 19-26.
“Posthumanous Subjects”. Hauskeller, Michael, Thomas D. Philbeck and Curtis D. Carbonell (eds). The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, 339-348.
“Terminal Films”. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 25(2-3), 264-277.
“Collision and Movement in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive” in Non-Place: Representing Placelessness in Literature, Media and Culture. Mirjam Gebauer, Helle Thorsøe Nielsen, Bent Sørensen (eds). Aalborg University Press, pp. 129-144.
“Bullet-Time: A Temporal Icon”. Akademisk kvarter 10, 107-117.
“Between Media: David Mack’s Kabuki”. Comics and Power: Representing and Questioning Culture, Subjects, and Communities. Rikke Platz Cortsen, Erin la Cour, Anne Magnussen (eds). Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 72-88.
“Superheroes and Sensibilities: Trauma and Innervation in Iron Man 3.” Imaginaires, 19, 237-250.
“’The Earth Died Screaming’: Tom Waits’ Bone Machine” in Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic in the Nineteenth Century to the Present. Fred Botting, Catherine Spooner (eds). Manchester University Press, pp. 73-85.
“Uncanny Cameras and Networked Subjects”. Blake, Linnie and Xavier Aldana Reyes (eds.). Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon. I.B.Tauris, 42-53.
2014 “Biopoetics of Control and Resistance in William Burroughs’ The Nova Trilogy” in Prospero XIX, pp. 165-184.
“Of Male Bondage: Violence and Constraint in Only God Forgives” in Akademisk kvarter 8, pp. 27-36.
2013 “Digital tid på Vimeo.” in Ole Ertløv Hansen; Lennard Højbjerg (eds). Online Videoer: På sociale medieplatforme. Aalborg Universitetsforlag, pp. 95-112.
“Hyper Attention Blockbusters: Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy.” in Akademisk kvarter 7, pp. 143-157.
“Suburban Apocalypse: The Haunted House of Capitalism.” in Brian Russell Graham; Robert W. Rix (eds). Terminus: The End in Literature, Media and Culture. Aalborg : Aalborg Universitetsforlag, pp. 185-201.
“Requiem for a Dream som mindre film: Darren Aronofskys postfilmiska estetik.” in Daniel Brodén & Kristoffer Noheden (eds), I gränslandet: Nya perspektiv på film och modernism. Gidlunds Förlag pp. 180-198.
2012 “Screen Spectrality: Gil Scott-Heron’s & Chris Cunningham’s New York Is Killing Me.” in Steen Christiansen, Brian R. Graham, Louise Mønster, Peder Kaj Pedersen, Jan T. Schlosser (eds). Spøgelser: Genfærdet som kulturel og æstetisk figur, Aalborg: Aalborg University Press.
“Posthuman Rights.” Akademisk kvarter 4, 101-112.
“Things Come Alive: Rise of the Zombies.” in Jørgen Riber Christensen & Steen Christiansen. Monstrologi: Frygtens manifestationer. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 2012.
2011 “Body Refractions: Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan.” Akademisk kvarter 3.
“The Bridges of Americana Country: Three Images of Clint Eastwood.” Peter Stein Larsen, et al. (eds). Kulturtrafik. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press.
2010 “Cloverfield’s Monstrosity: Ideology and Terror.” Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha (ed). Our Monstrous (S)kin: Blurring the Boundaries Between Monsters and Humanity. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp. 195-204.
“The Shadow of Grey: Lars von Trier’s Element of Crime.” Hansen, Kim Toft & Christensen, Jørgen Riber (eds). Fingeraftryk: Studier i krimi og det kriminelle. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag. 95-106.
“Airport Heterotopia: Le Guin’s Subversive Places.” Language and the Scientific Imagination : Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Helsinki: Helsinki University Press.
“Speaking the Undead: Uncanny Aurality in Pontypool.” Cinephile 6:2.
“Kødets fristelser.” Akademisk kvarter 1. 32-38.
2009 “Intermedial Escape: Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.” Larsen, Peter Stein, Pedersen, Peder Kaj, Pinkert, Ernst-Ullrich & Sørensen, Bent (eds). Interaktioner: Om kunstarternes produktive mellemværender Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, pp. 37-58.
“The “Rat” in Fraternity: China Mieville’s King Rat.” Christensen, Jørgen Riber (ed). Marvellous Fantasy. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, pp. 107-124.
“Written in Skin: Suicidegirls.” Nordlit 24, pp. 45-52.
“The Truth of the Word, the Falsity of the Image: Transmetropolitan’s Critique of the Society of the Spectacle.” MacLeod, Catriona, Plesch, Véronique & Schoell-Glass, Charlotte (eds). Elective Affinities: Testing Word and Image Relationships Word and Image Interactions. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, pp. 147-158.
2006 “Amerikanske Utopier: utopiens brug i Hollywood og amerikanske independent film”. Boeygen 18(2), pp. 47-54.
“Continuity Breach: The British Revision of the American Superhero”. Elias, Camelia & Birch, Andrea (eds). Cultural Text Studies 2: Transatlantic. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, pp. 109-132.
“Transtextuality, Paranoia, and Apophenia in Pattern Recognition”. Elias, Camelia & Sørensen, Bent (eds). Cultural Text Studies 1: An Introduction. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, pp. 229-242.
“Hollywood as Cultural Text”. Elias, Camelia & Sørensen, Bent (eds). Cultural Text Studies 1: An Introduction. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, pp. 171-186.
2005 “Adapting Emotions in the Hours”. Nicholas, Kyle & Christensen, Jørgen Riber (eds). Open Windows: Remediation Strategies in Global Film Adaptations. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, pp. 79-95.
“Why I Have Never Seen Derrida”. Sørensen, Bent (ed). 5 Faces of Derrida. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, pp. 23-29.
“The Postmodern Fantastic.” Anglo Files. Journal of English Teaching 135, pp. 62-67.
2004 “Of Questions and Positions, or What Does it Mean to Theorize Media?”. Dorfman, Ben (ed). Culture, Media, Theory, Practice: Perspectives Media and Cultural Studies. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, pp.225-233.
Grants
2015 Carlsberg Foundation for the conference “How to Do Things with Art.”
2015 Danish Council for Independent Research Culture and Communication for the conference “How to Do Things with Art.”
Invited Talks
“The Posthuman and the Post-Biological”, Lecture at University of Washington-Bothell, Seattle, November 2012.
“Cell Phones and the Global Techno-Social Revolution: Refuse/Resist/Retweet” Lecture at Global Learning Community, University of Illinois, November 2012.
“Post-Cinematic Embodied Affect” Lecture at Moving Image Arts, University of Illinois, November 2012.
“Biopolitics, Biomedia, and Monsters” Guest lecture at Århus University, October 2012.
“Sound of the Apocalypse.” Invited talk at the Musicology Colloqium, Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. December 2010.
“The Needle Tears a Hole.” Invited talk at Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. November 2010.
“Mellem drøm og medie.” Invited talk at Tegneseriesymposium, Copenhagen, 2009.
“Today Repeats the Future”. At Science and Technology Studies, Oslo University, 2007.
Conference Activity
Conferences organized
“Weird Cinema” panel at SCMS 2017, co-organized with Selmin Kara.
“How to Do Things with Art”. Aalborg 2015. Keynotes Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Fredrik Thystrup. Co-organized with Jens Lohfert Jørgensen.
Papers Presented
2019 “Unsettling Temporalities in Dark.” ICFA 40. Orlando
2018 “Shock, Wonder, and Estrangement: Genre and Atmosphere.” The Place of the Cognitive in Literary Studies network, Oslo.
2018 “Post-Cinema’s Modes of Thought.” Ends of Cinema, Center for 21st Century Studies, Milwaukee.
2018 “Weirding the Outside: The OA and the New Weird.” ICFA 39. Orlando.
2017 “Popular Speeds: Spring Breakers, Acceleration, and Exuberance.” The Popular seminar, Aalborg.
2017 “Speeds of the Popular.” The Popular seminar, Aalborg.
2017 “Dancing like a Robot: Expanding the Sensorium in Viral Music Videos.” NECS conference, Paris.
2017 “The Morph-Image.” Moving Image and Philosophy, Porto.
2017 “Digital Skin: Black Colors in American Cinema.” Nordic Association for American Studies, Odense.
2017 “Hardcore Henry and the Post-Cinematic Camera Eye.” Alphaville Conference, Cork.
2017 “Weird Media Ecologies.” SCMS, Chicago.
2016 “Image Matters: Imagology, ANT, and the Idea of Trans-“ Antoniana, University of Turku.
2016 “Wide Open Lines” Lines seminar, IRGIC, Aalborg.
2+15 “Sounds of Futures Past: Materiality, Hauntology, Affect” for How to Do Things with Art. Aalborg.
2015 “Action Movies’ Worlding” for Affect Theory WTF. Lancaster, PA.
2015 “Lines of Force, Lines of Flight: Action Movies in the 21st Century for the Danish Association for English Studies. Sandbjerg.
2015 “The Drone Rhythms of Edge of Tomorrow“ for Rhythm Seminar. IRGIC. Aalborg.
2015 “The Suffering Body: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist“. Lars von Trier workshop, Aalborg.
2015 “Drone Bodies”. International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando.
2014 “Things Gone Wild: The Movie Camera in the Drone Age”. SCMS conference. Seattle.
2013 “Aesthetic Contagion and Antiviral” paper at Nordic Summer University, winter session, Åbo Akademi, Turku.
2013 “Texture and Time in Tony Scott’s Déjà Vu” paper at Texture in Film symposium, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, St. Andrews.
2013 “Embodied Abjection,” paper at Corpus//Bodies conference, University of Florida, Gainesville.
2012 “Affect, Mediality, Volatility: Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan.” Nordic Summer University, Copenhagen.
2011 “Screen Spectrality.” Paper presented at Ghosts and the Spectral research seminar, Aalborg.
2010 “Clint Eastwood.” Paper presented at Cultural Traffic research seminar, Aalborg.
2009 “Earth Died Screaming.” Paper presented at International Gothic Conference, Lancaster.
2009 “The Specter of Falling.” Paper presented at College English Association, Pittsburgh.
2009 “Traumatic Time Travel.” Paper presented at International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando.
2008 “Written on the Body” Borders, Kirkenes.
2008 “Ideological Fission.” Monsters and the Monstrous, Oxford 2008.
2008 “Fragments of Time.” ESSE, Aarhus.
2008 “David Bowie’s Hauntology.” Uncanny Media, Utrecht.
2008 “Airport Heterotopia.” Paper presented at Language and the Scientific Imagination, Helsinki.
2005 “The Truth of the Word, the Falsity of the Image.” Word & Image, Philadelphia.
2005 “Slipstream Theory”, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale.
Teaching AAU
English program
Dystopias, Spring 2017
American Culture, Society, and History, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017
Post-Network TV, Spring 2016
Action Cinema, Spring 2014
Contemporary American Film, Fall 2011, Spring 2012
Media History, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012
Media Analysis, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2015
Project Topic Course, Fall 2010
Cultural Text Studies, Fall 2010
Literature and Text Theory seminars (co-taught with Robert Rix), Fall 2010
The Merchant of Venice, Spring 2010
American War Fictions, Fall 2008
Cult Films
The Body in Film
American Postmodernism
Science Fiction, Fall 2001
Science Fiction, Spring 2001. Taught at University of Southern Denmark.
Media studies program
Film- og medieanalyse, Spring 2018
Science Fiction in Film, Fall 2017
Fantasy in Film, Fall 2016
Media Theories, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017
Film History, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017
Mediesociologi (Media sociology), Fall 2008, Fall 2010, Fall 2011
Lectures on media theory and media history
Cultural studies program
Medier i kulturhistorien (Cultural history of media), Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2016, Spring 2017
Kulturelle udtryksformer (Cultural modes of expression), spring 2011 (with Ben Dorfman), spring 2016.
Aktuelle kulturbegreber (Contemporary cultural theory), Fall 2010
The West and the Rest (co-taught with Torben Ditlevsen, based on work by Pablo Cristoffanini), Fall 2010.
Kulturelle blandingsformer (Cultural hybridity), Spring 2010.
Service to Profession
Member of review board
Screen Bodies
Member of the editorial board
Akademisk Kvarter
The Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art
2012-2016 Board Member DAES (Danish Association of English Studies)
Departmental and University Service
AAU representative in the Ministerial Committee for English, Germanic, and Roman Langauges 2013-
Coordinator for English (Fagkoordinator Engelsk) 2018-
Assistant professor of American Linguistics, interview committee 2017
Head of Studies (Studienævnsformand) English, German, and Culture Studies 2012-2016
Associate professor of British Literature, Media, and Culture, interview committee 2016
Assistant professor of American Lingustics, interview committee 2015
Assistant professor of British Lingustics, interview committee 2014
Associate professor of American Literature, Media, and Culture, interview committee 2013
Community Involvement
Zombies and Monsters HTX Frederikshavn 2018
Monsters HTX Aalborg 2018
Seriality and Transmedia VUC Aalborg 2018
Guns and American Identity lecture at Vesthimmerlands gymnasium, 2016
Monsters: Uncanny and the Dread of Difference lecture at HTX Aalborg, 2016.
Zombiens kulturhistorie (Cultural History of the Zombie), Bolsjefabrikken, 2012.
Media Coverage
”Game of Thrones og Hunger Games giver vores apokalyptiske frygt afløb.” Featuring.dk. July 28, 2016. http://featuring.dk/game-of-thrones-og-hunger-games-giver-vores-apokalyptiske-frygt-afloeb/
Hvorfor vil vi have drager og antihelte?
Sandheden om zombier: Her er stofferne, der forvandler dig til en levende død
Udklædningsfester giver os et tiltrængt frirum
Når filmen er hvid, er alting godt
Zombierne kommer til København
Fans spejler sig i ungdomsbøger - derfor er casting følsomt
Filmatiseringer af ungdomsbøger fremkalder stærke reaktioner
Anderledes zombieaction med moralske spørgsmål
Zombier på pubcrawl i København
Løb! Zombierne kommer!
Zombieterror, Hjernekassen, 21 April 2012.
RomerRiget, Radio27Syv, 17 April 2012. Stream here (in Danish) <http://arkiv.radio24syv.dk/video/4879388/romerriget-uge-16-2012-1>
“Apokalypse igen og igen - Zombiens historie” Danskernes Akademi, DR2.
“Mindernes bog”” Danskernes Akademi, DR2, aired January 21st, 2011.
Interview for “Zombiefilm handler om terrorfrygt og overforbrug,”.
“Litteraturens fald.” Danskernes Akademi, DR2, aired September 9th, 2010.
Languages
Danish: native.
English: fluent.
German: with dictionary.
Professional Memberships
Society for Media and Cinema Studies
International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts
European Society for English Studies
Danish Association of English Studies
Nordic Network of Comic Book Research