Thomas Ærvold Bjerre is associate professor in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on American popular culture with a particular interest in representations of 9/11 and the War on Terror in film, photography and literature. He has published on these topics in Mediating War and Identity (Edinburgh UP, 2020), Visualizing War (Routledge, 2017), Journal of War and Culture Studies and Orbis Litterarum.
Bjerre co-wrote the first Danish book about the American Western—Cowboynationen (2009)—and has also published widely on southern literature and film in Mississippi Quarterly, The Appalachian Journal, American Studies in Scandinavia as well as in Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature and the forthcoming The South in Fiction and Film: Essays in Adaptation. Bjerre has also co-edited Southern Exposure (2017) and The Scourges of the South (2014).
