Labour literature and football
Mathies G Aarhus is a Marie Curie postdoc at the Centre for Digital Humanities and the Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion.
Tell us about your background.
I am a literary scholar and have previously worked with English-language literature. As a PhD student, I wrote a thesis on literary stories about unemployment from the 1930s up until today. My major research interest is the relationship between work and literature – both labour literature, but also in relation to more sociological questions of literature.
What will be your tasks in the upcoming two years?
My new project is about how the labour market affects reading, and it is connected to the Centre for Digital Humanities. In this project, I study new data from libraries and platforms in order to investigate when, how and why we read. How does the new way of reading relate to our changed work routines? How does digital work affect literary reception? If the job market has become "unsafe" in recent years, how does that affect our reading habits?
Tell us something about yourself!
I am Danish, and like so many of my kind I am very interested in football and the Danish national team. Soon the World Championship will start, which unfortunately takes place in a dictatorship state this year, but I will still follow Denmark's games. So if you pass a sports bar in Gothenburg and see me screaming and waving my arms, don't be afraid.