Rate My Professor Jesper Gulddal

A comparatist and literary historian, Gulddal's research is situated in cultural mobility studies, addressing intercultural perceptions, travel literature, literary representations of mobility and movement control, and the global circulation of literary forms and tropes. His contributions have helped delineate world crime fiction studies as a new orientation within crime fiction scholarship, supported by an ARC Discovery Project grant (2025-2027) in collaboration with scholars at Monash University. Publications include three monographs such as Anti-Americanism in European Literature (2011), six edited books including The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction (2020, co-edited with Janice Allan, Stewart King, and Andrew Pepper) and The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction (2022, co-edited with Stewart King and Alistair Rolls), four book translations, and articles in journals like New Literary History, Comparative Literature, Journal of World Literature, and Textual Practice. In 2025, he published the translation and critical edition of Jens Baggesen's The Labyrinth (Oxford University Press). His teaching excellence is recognized by Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE), a Faculty award for teaching excellence, and a National Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australian Government's Office for Learning and Teaching.