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Claus E Andersen

9 months

Today is publication day. "Knausgård and the Autofiction Novel" is out - and even with a HUGE discount at checkout as part of SUNY Press' Holiday Sale.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Shockingly, many Danish supermarkets still have a section called “colonial” with goods from “former colonies.” Another example of how racism subtly is present everywhere in this country.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

6 months

I'm a high-school drop-out and a first-generation college student. And I was just told my tenure at a major American R1 university was voted through.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

Instead of lamenting, or even complaining, that students do not always read for class, perhaps we should talk about non-punitive strategies that will ensure that they do (especially, perhaps, in large lecture classes). Share your suggestions here:

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

10 months

Obligatory shot of the physical version of my book that just arrived. Hardcover version to be published in two weeks.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

This is Kierkegaard's engagement ring. When he broke off the engagement with Regina, he had the ring changed, so the five diamonds would form a cross. He wore the ring for the rest of his life.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

We tend to forget that New Criticism helped democratize literary studies. It put students from a less privileged background on the same playing field as those from a more privileged background.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

My book on Knausgård and the autofiction novel has been accepted for publication (with broad approval and all) by SUNY Press. This would never have happened had it not been for @RColesworthy : the smartest, sharpest, sweetest, and most supportive editor out there. Am I happy? Yes.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Yesterday I learned that Dolly Parton wrote "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" on the same day. I just hope to write two sentences that I do not end up deleting in one day.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

The problem is not that a number of newly tenured professors get $100,000 dollars. The problem is that higher ed in the US depends upon private donations. That's what we should be angry about and work to change, not individual donations.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

Still one of the best explanations of the novel around: "The novel is the epic of an age in which the extensive totality of life is no longer directly given, in which the immanence of meaning of life has become a problem, yet which still thinks in terms of totality."

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

Final proofs!

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Speaking of coffee in "My Struggle": A few years ago a reviewer in NY Times suggested that the amount of coffee consumed in Stieg Larsson Dragon Tatoo trilogy was unrealistic and spoke of "pathological coffee drinking." Welcome to the realism of everyday Scandinavia.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

And it looks like I have a cover for my book. I love that it is both loud as hell and somewhat minimalistic.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 months

And now I got the letter from the dean that made it all official:

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

4 years

A few years back, a friend of mine told me I was one of the few literary scholars he knew who actually read books for fun. Ever so often, I'm reminded of what he said. Surely he was wrong, right?. Literary scholars do read for fun, right?

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

My class this morning will be my last time teaching until January 2022. I have been awarded a fellowship at UW-Madison's Institute for Research in the Humanities in the Fall.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

6 months

Literary scholars surely most be the most arrogant group of academics. Or am I wrong?

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

For me (a high-school drop-off and first gen), close reading, and the careful attention to the text, helped me assert my readings when I started studying in contrast to those who knew everything about the time period or the color of the writer's socks.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Knausgård seen from above.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

"He only saw me as he wanted to see me. It was as if he didn't know me. Reading what he wrote was like experiencing a loss. Today I believe he is one of those male writers who in reality can't write about women." Linda Boström Knausgård on her ex-husband and "My Struggle."

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

Fellow literary scholars: where have you all gone? Are you still on Twitter or just not showing up in my timeline anymore? I miss you all.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

Today, I turn 50. That means two things: champagne and “Notting Hill.”

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

9 months

In anticipation of the publication of my book in two days, here is an awkward photo of me and Mr. Knausgård.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Is it okay to be encouraged by the positive language in a rejection?

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

Look who I met. Mr. Knausgård is also in Danmark.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Another day of reverse podomoro : 5 minutes writing; 25 minutes Twitter scrolling.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

7 months

As someone working in literary studies, but not in an English Department, I have never felt less part of a profession than after reading John Guillory's book. Again: the majority of literary studies at US universities happen at departments other than English and Com. Lit.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

Excited about (and intimidated by) this amazing symposium on autofiction at Duke in three weeks (organized by @TorilMoi ).

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Just your daily reminder that literary studies is so much more than what happens at your local English Dept.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

You can now pre-order the hardcover edition of my book "Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel."

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

I just submitted the final manuscript of my book.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Finally! Knausgård’s new novel “The Wolves from the Forrest of Eternity” arrived from Norway.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Kierkegaard and Marx attending the same lectures by Schelling in 1841-42 is one historical fact that I continually try to wrap my head around.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

Night photo my Danish sanctuary: the cabin by the North Sea where I have spent time every summer for the past 50 years.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

8 months

Let me, for no reason whatsoever, post this:

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

I'm terrified but also excited. As part of UW-Madison's First Book Program, I will meet on Zoom with a number of amazing scholars (Toril Moi, Arnaud Schmitt, Venkat Mani, Russ Castronovo, and Richard Goodkin) who will comment on and critique my MS later this morning).

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

I always find it problematic when early-career scholar is used synonymously with TT. It suggests a uniform trajectory that does not fit many of us. My first scholarly article was published in 2002, but I did not get a TT position in the US until 2017 when I was in my mid-40's.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Wrote the first two sentences of my new book project. Now I can rest.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

9 months

Tomorrow is publication day. Here are some early reviews/blurbs.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

Obviously, more people should read Lukács' "The Theory of the Novel."

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

Academia in a nutshell: Senior scholars (who haven't done shit in decades) telling junior scholars to be more productive.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

17 years ago this weekend I married this incredible and amazing woman - and we celebrated our anniversary by doing what all middle class, midwestern, and middle aged couples seem to do: going to Costco.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

"Borgen"-fans around the world: a new 4th season is definitely coming. I just saw a preview on Danish TV.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Today is my birthday. I'll celebrate with sushi, a nice glass of wine, and "Notting Hill."

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

On the importance of literary theory:

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Whenever I tell friends and colleagues about my experience on Twitter they look at me in disbelief. I tell about the community, support, encouragement, academic exchange, intellectual camaraderie, and even friendship. And for that experience, I thank YOU, my Twitter-friends.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

On this day of the Noble Prize in Literature, it is worth reflecting: who never got the prize but absolutely should have? I'll go first: Inger Christensen.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Postgame. Father/son.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

An important linguistic and cultural detail in My Struggle (that is missing in the English translation) is that Karl Ove speaks Norwegian to his kids but they answer him in Swedish.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

Revise and resubmit. But from a dream journal.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 months

I am so fucking tired of reading scholarly work that only seeks to identify the "blind spots" in literature. All it does is belittle the works in question and show the scholar as oh-so-smart. How about writing about what a literary work can do for a change?

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

This is not to gloss over the problematic aspects of New Criticism - and there are, indeed, many of those. Just to point out how it made generations of students who previously had been ostracized feel welcome in the literary classroom.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

When Derrida is good is he beyond brilliant. This, perhaps, is the best (and most complex) definition of literature/literarity ever. But hard to contradict.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Submitted a draft of my full MS today to a group of amazing scholars that have agreed to read, comment, and discuss as part of UW-Madison's First Book Program. Never before have I seen the different chapters complied into one coherent whole. Happy, excited, and pretty nervous.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Done. Canceled both flight and hotel reservations for MLA. It would have been fun, but....

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

Article submitted. Where is my drink?

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

10 months

There are words that you can only use once in an article. Abstruse, I think, is one of those. Others?

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

Dear Google. Let's be clear: Knausgård and Zadie Smith did not get married.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

6 months

@TiffanyKWayne A number of my students used Gramarly's AI with the result being a lot of wild synonyms that they actually didn't know the meaning of.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

11 months

This, on Jon Fosse by Merve Emre, is beyond beautiful:

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

8 months

I’m being interviewed about my book in today’s edition of the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen.

Kunst i krisetid | Klassekampen

Finanskrisa var avgjørende for bølgen av autofiksjon på 2000-tallet, hevder Knausgård-forsker Claus Elholm Andersen.

klassekampen.no

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

My 5 y/o in the car this morning: “I would tell Taylor Swift that I love her songs but I don’t know where she lives.”

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

And yes, I still love LEGO Karl Ove.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

5 months

I proposed to my wife 20 years ago today. Her saying yes is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

Saddest but also a most accurate description of life in academia:

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Camping with the littlest one, just me and her. And now the tent is up.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

You can’t make stuff like this up.

WPR

@WPR

3 years

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved increasing salary ranges for top positions. The pay range for the UW-Madison chancellor will increase 21.67 percent, while the range for the UW-Milwaukee chancellor will increase 32 percent.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

Once and for all: the K in Knausgård is NOT silent.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

6 months

Nobody tells you that tenure comes with a requirement to buy a new drum kit. But it does. You’re welcome!

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

I survived. And it turns out I can still run a half marathon in 1:50.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

Announcing “Borgen,” Season 5, starring me as the literary scholar who starts a new political party on close reading.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

11 months

One thing that continues to surprise me: that scholars who are nuanced readers of complex literary text are un-nuanced readers of the complexities of current events.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

“Some day I will go to Aarhus,” Seamus Heaney writes. And today is that day for me. Later today I’m leaving for Aarhus, Denmark - my old hometown.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Guess what I’m spending my Friday afternoon working on? @lportwoodstacer

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Whoever said Christmas PJ's are uncool was lying.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

Spending my last week in Denmark in this beach house and with this view.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

5 months

My next book is about the early fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, it is in Danish, and will be published by Aarhus University Press in 2025 (I just got the contract).

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

This is your bi-yearly reminder that literary studies is so much more than what happens at your local English Dept.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

And today is my birthday. I can definitely not lay claim to being young anymore. My celebration? As always, champagne and Notting Hills.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

Finished this morning’s half marathon in 1:48. And one advantage of turning 50 is that I finished 19th in my age group.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Excited about today's graduate seminar where we will read and discuss the work of three spectacular scholars: @carallewis , @V21collective , and Caroline Levine.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

4 years

@JordanSCarroll @GhostingDani I understand why it’s problematic but as someone who did his PhD outside the US, I would never, ever have gotten my current job if it wasn’t for that book. Just have having the campus visit explained, and know which questions to anticipate made a huge difference.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

10 months

1:45. That was my time this Morgan in Madison Half Marathon.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

Before evil completely takes over this site, a shout-out to the community, camaraderie, friendship, help, and support that I have encountered here from fellow scholars and academics. Thank you.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

Just got my new Danish passport - and this was enclosed in the envelope from the consulate. Wonderful, right?

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

I got excited when I saw this poster on campus until I realized it was me giving the talk. But “Claus Andersen” is to me a different person than “Claus Elholm Andersen,” which is my actual name.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Friends. We are academics. We all read books. But could we perhaps stop displaying our bookcases on Zoom? I assume I am not the only one spending far too much energy trying to identify which books I see in the background. It is simply too distracting.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Happy New Year to my Twitter friends. Thank you for your friendship, support, and encouragement in 2021. You made it all worth it. I wish the best for you, and for all of us, in 2022.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

Great start to the week: an acceptance of an article based on amazing reader reports with only a few suggestions for improvement that I surely will follow.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

At the age of 17, Knausgård began as a music critic in the local newspaper. In an interview with "our new music critics," he was asked about A-ha who was at the height of their fame: "I have a sense for them, but I don't like how they are being promoted."

David Hering

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2 years

Young Karl Ove Knausgaard looking like he’s about to break into a rendition of ‘Take on Me’

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Family time in Chicago with the teenager but without the littlest one.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

Day three back in suburban SoCal, and it yet again becomes clear to me why Adorno and Horkheimer felt compelled to write their analysis of the culture industry here.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

Tomorrow morning, I will present my new book length project on Hans Christian Andersen to an amazing group of Andersen scholars. I’m excited, yes, but mostly terrified.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

1 year

Dramatic morning run ended with a visit to the ER, scrapes on knees and hands, and a nasty cut on my chin that needed to be glued. On the positive side: my presentation went really well.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

This is me two years ago this very weekend. Stupid as I am, I signed up for the same race this year that will be taking place this coming Sunday. And the weather forecast for Sunday morning? Freezing and 1-3 inches of snow.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

3 years

I honestly love it when the Nobel Prize is awarded to an author I haven't read or heard of. It's like being introduced to a stranger that you instantly know will become a good friend in the future.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

This is Denmark in the 1970s.

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Claus E Andersen

@clauselholmDK

2 years

First day of class talking about this great novel!

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