Rate My Professor Jesper Gulddal

Professor Jesper Gulddal is a Professor in the Discipline Area of English and Writing within the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He earned his PhD, Cand Mag (MA) in Comparative Literature, and Diploma in Higher Education (Learning & Teaching) from the University of Copenhagen. Following postdoctoral positions at the University of Cambridge as Carlsberg Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Associate, and Clare Hall Visiting Fellow from 2005 to 2010, as well as roles as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen from 2001 to 2005, he joined the University of Newcastle in 2010. Gulddal has held significant leadership positions, including Head of English, Deputy Head of School (Research Training and Teaching and Learning), Acting Head of the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences in 2022/2023, and currently serves as an elected member and Deputy President (Teaching and Learning) of the University's Academic Senate from 2023 to 2025. He has supervised ten PhD students to completion.

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.