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In this site, I have published numerous articles, texts and translation produced during the years. The published material includes both rather technical studies (especially on linguistic issues) and more popular writings.

about myself

I am 40 years old and live together with my husband Jakob in Vejlby in the northern part of Århus (the capital of Jutland). Professionally, I work as an Associate Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Aarhus. My first name is pronounced in English, but my last name in Danish (i.e. ['dʒɒ:dʒ 'heŋə]) – it is not a matter of affectation, but a complicated fact that reflects my no less complicated family history.

Besides my passion for language, I am also interested in theology, philosophy and politics, if one dare believe that these three horses may be joined under one and the same yoke. Therefore I have a (sometimes well-founded, but always well-argued) opinion about most things: I am a Social Democrat, but I do not think that there is any opposition between ideology and pragmatism. I am a Christian, but I do not think that a liberal world view is in any contradiction with God. Yet, if one dare write Truth with a capital letter, one should not a full stop, but a colon after the word.

my research

Having completed my PhD thesis on the dialect of the Spartan lyric poet Alcman, I studied, in 2003-4, Herodotus’ description of the Scythians at the Danish Research Foundation’s Centre of Black Sea Studies. Later, 2004-7, I was occupied, with a grant from the Carlsberg-Foundation, with a rhetorical-linguistic analysis of Roman epistolography at the Centre for Rhetoric at the University of Aarhus.

I am now studying the relationship between language history and identity and the description of it in modern scholarship; the project is part of the Copenhagen research programme The Roots of Europe - Language, Culture, and Migrations.