Joergen Dines Johansen Professor of General and Comparative Literature Director of North European Regional Center for Semiotics Center for Literature and Semiotics University of Southern Denmark 55 Campusvej DK-5230 Odense M DENMARK phone office: 45+ 65 57 32 90 secretary: 45+ 65 57 33 00 fax: 45+ 65 93 19 68 e-mail: jdj@litcul.sdu.dk phone home: 45+6614 43 40

Born 1943. Graduated from Bagsvaerd Kostskole (modern languages) 1962. Studies at Copenhagen University in philosophy, psychology, and German 1962-1964. Studies in general and comparative literature 1964-70. Received the gold medal of Copenhagen University for a prize essay on Post war Theories of the Novelle 1969 (published 1970) and the same year Thank to the Danes Scholarship Fund. Graduated as Magister artium (Ph.D.) from Department of Literature, Copenhagen University 1970 with a dissertation on the problem of literary interpretation.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Department of Literature, Copenhagen University 1970-72. Assistant Professor, Roskilde Universitetscenter 1972-74
Associate Professor, Roskilde Universitetscenter 1974-75
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Department of Literature, Copenhagen University 1975-76
Appointed to the chair of General and Comparative Literature, Department of Literature, University of Southern Denmark, 1976-

Research Associate, Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, and Peirce Edition Project, Indianapolis 1982-83. Fellowship at The Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, May 1993.
Distinguished visitor, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, January 1994.
Fulbright Professor at UC Berkeley 1994-5.
Guest professor Helsinki University, January 1997.
Fellow, Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria University, University of Toronto, April-May, 1997.
Guest professor Oslo University, October 1998.
Prix mouton d’or 1999.

Research interests: Semiotics, literary theory, literature and psychoanalysis, European literary history especially 18^th and 19^th centuries

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