He spent five years in Canada (2006-2011) as a Lecturer teaching Danish and Scandinavian Studies at The University of British Columbia. His main areas of interest are 19thcentury Scandinavian Literature and Philosophy (Søren Kierkegaard), Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen, Scandinavian Cinema (Lars von Trier) and Contemporary Danish and Nordic Literature, especially autofiction. He is currently working on a book about the cinema of Lars von Trier.