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Mette Hjort is Chair Professor and Head of Visual Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Previous appointments include Head of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong, Director of Cultural Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and Professor of Intercultural Studies at Aalborg University in Denmark. Mette was a Visiting Researcher at Kyoto University in 1996, a Visiting Professor of Scandinavian Studies at University College London in the Spring of 2007 and a Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Film Studies at St. Andrews University in Scotland during the Fall of 2007. She regularly contributes to the University of Washington, Seattle’s summer school in Copenhagen, where she introduces students to the film town in Avedoere, the film school, key cultural policy figures, and various filmmakers and scriptwriters.

Mette is particularly interested in the cinema of small nations, artistic initiatives designed as alternatives or complements to cultural policy, and transnational collaboration between film practitioners belonging to small nations. Her earlier work reflects her interest in critical theory, theatre history, aesthetics, and philosophy.

Mette’s current projects are two interview books with filmmakers, an edited volume focusing on film and risk, and a co-edited volume (with Meaghan Morris) entitled Instituting Cultural Studies. She is also working on the phenomenon of film schools and on various issues in environmental aesthetics.

Head, Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University

Ph.D. (nouveau doctorat, Centre de Recherche sur les Arts et le Langage), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1989), supervised by French art historian Louis Marin

M.A. (Communications), McGill University (1985), supervised by Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor

B.A. Honors (English), McGill University (1983)

Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Film Studies, St Andrews University

Visiting Professor, Scandinavian Studies, University College London

Guest Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, summer program, Copenhagen

Awarded, Senior Researcher Fellowship, Danish Institute for Advanced Studies

Series Editor, Nordic Film Classics Series, University of Washington Press and Intellect Press

Member, Executive Board, Hong Kong Film Classics Series, Hong Kong University Press

Member, Advisory Board, Northern Lights

Film Theory, Film Movements, Film Towns, Minor Cinema, Philosophy and Film, National and Transnational Cinema, Aesthetics, Anti-theatricality, Literary Theory, European Drama, Scandinavian Studies, University Culture

Professor, Intercultural Studies, Aalborg University

Associate Professor and Head of Comparative Literature, Hong Kong University

Associate Professor, Department of English, Copenhagen Business School

Associate Professor and Director of Film and Communications, Department of English, McGill University

Assistant Professor, Department of English, McGill University

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, McGill University

Declined, tenure-track position, Department of Romance Languages, the Johns Hopkins University

Hjort, Mette. (in press). Lone Scherfig’s Italian for Beginners (Seattle: University of Washington Press).

Hjort, Mette. 2006. Stanley Kwan’s Centre Stage (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press), pp 144.

Hjort, Mette. 2005. Small Nation, Global Cinema (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Public Worlds Series), pp 300.

Hjort, Mette. 1993. The Strategy of Letters (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press), pp 267.

Hjort, Mette (in progress) Film and Risk.

Hjort, Mette. 2008. Dekalog 01: On The Five Obstructions (London: Wallflower Press), pp 148.

Hjort, Mette & Duncan Petrie. 2007. The Cinema of Small Nations (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press), pp 250.

Hjort, Mette & Scott MacKenzie. 2003. Purity and Provocation: Dogme 95 (London: The British Film Institute Publications), pp 237.

Hjort, Mette & Ulf Hedetoft. 2002. The Postnational Self (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Public Worlds Series), pp 316.

Hjort, Mette & Scott MacKenzie. 2000. Cinema and Nation (London: Routledge), pp 332.

Hjort, Mette & Sue Laver. 1997. Emotion and the Arts (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp 302.

Hjort, Mette. 1992. Rules and Conventions: Literature, Philosophy, Social Theory (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press), pp 359.

With Peter Schepelern, of the Nordic Film Classics Series (University of Washington Press). Forthcoming books in the series include Maaret Koskinen on Ingmar Bergman's The Silence, Bjorn Nordfjord on Dagur Kari's Noi the Albino, and Trevor Ponech on Bent Hamer's Kitchen Stories.

Hjort, Mette, Eva Jørholt & Eva Novrup (in progress). Danish Directors 2 (Bristol: Intellect Press).

Hjort, Mette & Ib Bondebjerg. 2001. The Danish Directors: Dialogues on a Contemporary National Cinema (Bristol: Intellect Press), pp 288. Translation by Hjort of Instruktørens blik.

Hjort, Mette & Ib Bondebjerg. (2000). Instruktørens blik -- en interviewbog om dansk film (Copenhagen: Rosinante) pp 294.

Hjort, Mette. 1994. Translator of Louis Marin’s Détruire la peinture (Paris: Galilée, 1977). Translated as To Destroy Painting (Chicago: Chicago University Press), pp 186 .

Hjort, Mette. 1989. Translator of Louis Marin's La parole mangée (Paris: Méridiens Klincksieck). Translated as Food for Thought (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press), pp 273.