About Ann-Sofie Gremaud

   

Ann-Sofie Nielsen Gremaud (b. 1981).

I am a Danish/Swiss researcher of cultural history, currently based in Reykjavík, Iceland. I have studied Art History and Scandinavian Literature at the University of Aarhus and spent a few years working in Iceland. During my years of researching the field of Danish-Icelandic cultural history and visual culture as a contact zone, I have met interesting people, read some amazing work and published a bit.

As of 2018 I am affiliated with the University of Iceland as an associate professor at the department of Danish. I will be a part of the research network The Art of Nordic Colonialism: Writing Transcultural Art Histories 2019-2023.

My PhD thesis about crypto-colonial elements in Icelandic nation building and the importance of landscape imagery “Kryptokoloniale Landskaber. Tid, sted og rum i billeder af islandsk landskab 1874-2011” (2012) was the culmination of a three year project at the University of Copenhagen (the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies) – as well as an onset for new research.

2013-2017 I was affiliated with the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen as a postdoctoral fellow with the research project Geographies of Crisis: Post-Industrial Landscapes in the North Atlantic as a part of a larger joint research project. September 2013 to August 2014 I was a visiting scholar at the Edda Center of Excellence at Háskóli Íslands (Reykjavík).

I have worked as a freelance writer and lecturer and taught at Ilisimatusarfik, the University of Greenland.

My primary areas of interest are

• Discourses about Danish and Westnordic colonial history
• Post-colonial and crypto-colonial theories in a developing (West Nordic) field
• Visual Culture with a focus on depictions of nature
• Environmental Humanities and Ecology
• Affect in cultural politics and art
• Cultural Geography, theories of place and space
• Industrial ruins and the aesthetics of the vanishing
• Nordic art and visual culture from the period 1874-2013, especially the period 1990-2013
• Eurocentrism, crypto-colonial studies, postcolonial theory and globalization theory
• Imagology, nationalism in young nations and cultural encounters
• Overlapping fields of science and art
• Modern art in the North Atlantic countries (primarily Icelandic art)
• Theories of temporality, relationships between Western philosophy of history, teleology, imperialism and racism
• Neo-romanticism, paganism and spirituality in the North
• Fin de siècle literature and art
• Queer theory, gender studies

I give talks and lectures on:

Icelandic nation branding and culture

Icelandic as center and periphery

The Arctic as a future geography

The changing role of nature in Icelandic society

Crypto-colonial Iceland

Danish use of Icelandic culture in national identity formation

Icelandic modern art

Danish Commonwealth (Rigsfællesskabet), colonies and dependencies

Visual culture

contact:

annsofiegremaud@gmail.com / gremaud@hi.is

tel. : +4528973397

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