PhD Courses in Denmark

Dates and time: 1 October, 3 November and 1 December 2026 from 13-16

This PhD course aims to improve the ability of PhD students to write articles targeting international academic journals in the fields literary and cultural studies. To do so, the course offers a series of workshops where the participants and the lecturers will exchange tricks of the trade by discussing selected texts on academic writing, exemplary articles as well as the participants’ own drafts. Throughout, the course will focus on the art of advancing an argument, making claims for significance, and addressing the specific audience and gatekeepers of the journal in question. It will also engage with the differences between national and international publishing. As the fields of literary and cultural studies cut across UCPH’s departmental delineations, the course will be co-arranged by IKK, NorS, and EnGeRom and involve a lecturer from each research environment. In that way, the course will help junior scholars from different arenas in literary and cultural studies to break through to international venues, an increasingly imperative skill in contemporary academia

Workshop I: Introduction (Tobias Skiveren)
​In this workshop, we will discuss general guidelines for academic journal publishing, drawing on selected texts on academic writing. The aim is to demonstrate the importance of advancing an argument, making claims for significance, and addressing the specific audience and gatekeepers of the desired journal.

Workshop II: Advancing an argument and making claims for significance (Christina Jolan Fogarasi)
In this workshop, we will discuss the participants’ own drafts, focusing specifically on introductions and abstracts. The aim is to cultivate the ability to shape arguments and claims for relevance in accordance with the norms and debates in the desired journals. The first half of the participants will submit a draft (introduction and abstract) a week before this workshop. All participants will prepare feedback on selected drafts. Christina Jolan Fogarasi, moreover, will offer her personal advice on international journal publishing.

Workshop III: Advancing an argument and making claims for significance (Mikkel Frantzen)
In this workshop, we will discuss the participants’ own drafts, focusing specifically on introductions and abstracts. The aim is to cultivate the ability to shape arguments and claims for relevance in accordance with the norms and debates in the desired journal. The second half of the participants will have to submit a draft (introduction and abstract) a week before this workshop. All participants will prepare feedback on selected drafts. Mikkel Krause Frantzen, moreover, will offer his personal advice on international journal publishing.

Academic aim
The course aims to improve the ability of PhD students:
 - to write articles aimed for international academic journals in the fields of art, literature and cultural studies.
 - to shape arguments and claims for significance in accordance with the norms and debates in the desired journal.
 - to organize articles around a single significant idea.

Target group
PhD students in literary and cultural studies (from e.g. IKK, NorS, EnGeRom), but humanities scholars in general might be interested as well. The course will also be open to postdocs.

Course organiser and lecturer:
Tobias Skiveren, associate professor, NorS

Course lecturers:
Mikkel Frantzen, Associate Professor, IKK
Christina Jolan Fogarasi, Assistant Professor (tenure track), EnGeRom

Max. numbers of participants: 12

ECTS: 2.5 ECTS

Applications
To apply, submit a short abstract for the article that you’d like to work on during the course (max 200 words) before September 1st. 2026. Please send your abstract by email to tobiasskiveren@hum.ku.dk

Further information: For more information about the PhD course, please contact the course organiser.