Rasmus Damkjær Christensen

Rasmus Damkjær Christensen (b. 1982) grew up in Aalborg. He moved to Copenhagen in 2002 to attend Roskilde University. After three years of studies with an emphasis on the humanities, he received his BA in Cultural Encounters. He then spent two years to at the University of Southern Denmark?s Center for American Studies. During this time he was also an exchange student at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He received his MA in American Studies in 2009 after completing his thesis on negative campaigning in American Politics. Since 2008 he has worked as a researcher for the news department of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR).

Martin Dalgaard Grøn

Martin Grøn was born in Skanderborg in 1981. In 2003 he moved to Odense to study Media Science. Two years of media science and one year at Journalism earned him a BA in 2005. He continued his academic carrier with a Masters in American Studies where he specialized in American film genres. His thesis was on the American outlaw in western films, and how the changes in the presentations in the outlaw corresponded with societal and cultural shifts. He is currently employed at the Cinematheque at the Danish Film Institute as a public relations assistant.

Ecotopian Perspectives:
Environmental Realities in American Politics and Literature

In "Ecotopian Perspectives," Rasmus Damkjær Christensen and Martin Grøn discuss utopian fictions that deal with the environmental realities in American politics and literature and present ecological alternatives to contemporary life styles, especially in the Ecotopia novels by Ernest Callenbach.

held at: Utopian Thoughts. Trans-Atlantic Fictions of Science and Politics,
April 26-28, 2007