Elisabeth Møller Jensen (born 1946) is a Danish literary historian and feminist. From 1990 to 2014 she was director of

Kvinfo The Danish Center for Research on Women and Gender (KVINFO) is a Danish information center about women's issues. It primarily aims to provide the general public with information about the results of women's studies and gender research underta ...

, the Danish Centre for Information on Women and Gender. She has also contributed as a literary critic to several of Denmark's national newspapers and has lectured on women's research and politics.

Biography

Born on 31 December 1946 in

Lemvig Lemvig is a market town located on the Limfjord in North Jutland, Denmark. The town has a population of 6,741 (2025),Jutland Jutland (; , ''Jyske Halvø'' or ''Cimbriske Halvø''; , ''Kimbrische Halbinsel'' or ''Jütische Halbinsel'') is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein). It ...

, Elisabeth Møller Jensen is the daughter of the baker and specialist worker Tage M. Jensen (1921–94) and his wife Gudrun Borgholm (1921–75). She grew up in a

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milieu where, together her three siblings, she attended high school, matriculating from Struer Gymnasium in 1967. She then moved to

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where she studied Danish and Russian at

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. She later specialized in Danish, earning a Cand.phil. in 1977. From 1973, Møller Jensen began to teach at the university and became more politically active, joining various radical left-wing organizations. She went on to take short-term teaching assignments at several different universities, earning an M.A. in Nordic literature from

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in 1984. Her dissertation on the Norwegian writer Camilla Collet was published in 1987 as '' Emancipation som lidenskab'' (Emancipation as a Passion). From 1981, she became centrally involved in a research project which culminated in her role as editor of '' Nordisk kvindelitteraturhistorie'' (Nordic Women's Literary History) published in five extensive volumes from 1993 to 1998. Møller Jensen became the director of Kvinfo in 1990, increasing its staffing threefold, redesigning its magazine ''Forum'' and creating Europe's first online database devoted to women. In 2006, she initiated Kvinfo's Women in Dialogue programme, focused on women in the

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. She retired from Kvinfo in February 2014 after almost 24 years of service.

Awards

Møller Jensen has received several awards including the Lis Jacobsen prize in 1994 for her work as editor of ''Nordisk Kvindelitteraturhistorie'' and the

Tagea Brandt Rejselegat The Tagea Brandts ''Rejselegat'' (Travel Scholarship) is a Danish award to women who have made a significant contribution in science, literature or art. The grant, which is given without application, was created and endowed by Danish industrialist ...

travel scholarship in 2004. In 2006, she was honoured as a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.

References

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