Christina Lupton is a professor of literary and cultural theory at the University of Copenhagen, where she directs the School of English, Germanic, and Romance Languages. She is the author of Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) and, most recently, Love and the Novel: Life as a Twentieth-Century Reader (Profile, forthcoming).
Christina Lupton
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What Was the Classroom?
As many COVID-era courses have moved from seminar rooms to Zoom meetings, the haptic nature of teaching has changed. Is anything lost?
Getting to the Party in Time
The best parties, L. O. Aranye Fradenburg Joy claims in her epilogue to Jonathan Goldberg’s Sappho: ]fragments, are the after-parties: the parties that happen …
Is Our Work Done?
The answer depends, of course, on our definition of work. I’m writing this late at night. It’s Sunday and I’ve cooked some soup, marked some exams. I hardly know what counts as work these days. The paid stuff doesn’t always seem like the most important, although sometimes it feels easiest. I lurch into holidays dreading […]
Planning Happiness: A Postcard from Christianshavn, Copenhagen
This is the latest installment of Public Streets, an urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery. This street used to be quieter, just an occasional bike rattling over the cobblestones along a pretty stretch of Copenhagen canal. The 19th-century residential apartments were built to service an older naval and industrial quarter. When we were renovating our […]
Norwegian Autofiction and the Problem of Kinship
It’s a dark and wet December afternoon in downtown Copenhagen; the appeal of venturing out to listen to Norway’s latest literary star isn’t obvious. But a small collection of people are nonetheless now shaking the rain from their jackets and sitting down in the “LiteraturHaus” to hear Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold talk with her Danish translator, […]
Reading Social Democracy in Translation
It wasn’t so long ago that Scandinavia seemed very far away from London and New York. But steady doses of Dogme films and Ikea furniture over the last decades have prepared the way for a swell in the Anglo-American uptake of Danish television, Nordic noir, high-end Scandinavian design, and more. Such is the increased traffic […]
