Rate My Professor Bergur D. Hansen

Bergur D. Hansen serves as Dean and Associate Professor in Literature at the Faculty of Faroese Language and Literature, University of the Faroe Islands. He obtained his PhD from the University of the Faroe Islands in 2015 with a dissertation titled Travel Writings of K.O. Viderø. Earlier, he earned a Master's degree in Comparative Literature from Aarhus University in 1998 and completed postgraduate teacher training at Risskov Amtsgymnasium/Mentamálaráðið in 2002. Hansen commenced his academic career at the University of the Faroe Islands as a part-time teacher of Literary Analysis and Method in 2007, was appointed Assistant Professor in 2012, Associate Professor in 2016, and Dean of the Faculty of Faroese Language and Literature in 2017. From 2020 to 2022, he held the position of Prorector for Education and Quality.

Hansen's research interests encompass Faroese literature in a Nordic context, modernism in the Nordic region, language contact in literary texts, travel writings connected to the Far North and Arctic, and interdisciplinary ecocritical theory in contemporary Faroese and Nordic literature. Since 2023, he has led the UArctic Network on Arctic Cultures and History (ARCH). His scholarly output includes 51 research items, among them the 2025 chapter 'Afradikalisering: Romanen Barbara og erindringen om Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen' in Barbara i høj sø: en antologi om Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsens hovedværk, the article 'Einki hvørvur: Korallbruni' published in Fróðskaparrit 71 (2025), and the paper 'Leaving No Stone Unturned: The Stanley Expedition to the Faroe Islands and Iceland in 1789' (2025). He teaches BA-level courses in literary analysis and method, and literary history, as well as MA-level research-based courses on travel literature, modernist poetry, and ecocriticism. Hansen supervises BA, MA, and PhD theses in literature. His contributions extend to editorial and advisory roles, including membership on the Editorial Board of Arctic Humanities (Brill) since 2022, the Island Studies Journal Advisory Board (2021-2024), the adjudication committee for the Nordic Council Literature Prize (2017-2021 and 2007-2011), the Faroese National Commission for UNESCO since 2025, and the M.A. Jacobsen Book Award committee since 2022.