Jette Rygaard
Professor, Department of Language, Literature & Media, University of Greenland
Jette Rygaard is Professor Ph.D. emeritus at the University of Greenland.
She received her degree as Mag. art and cand. mag in science of literature from Copenhagen University and her Ph.D. from Aalborg University, Faculty of Humanities Department of Communication and Psychology Communication - IT and Learning Design. Her Ph.D. was on children and young people’s media habits in Greenland based on 20 years of quantitative and qualitative research.
From 1993 she has been teaching literature, media and methods in Greenland at Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland. From 2003 - 2010 she was Head of Department of Language, Literature and Media and again from 2017- 2019, and then became professor emeritus in 2019. From 2015 – 2019 she was director for BUFFI: The Centre centre for Children-, Youth- & Family Research at Ilisimatusarfik. She is still affiliated to Ilisimatusarfik in various ways fx. the Rockwell Kent project: Rockwell Kent and Early 1930s Greenland: A Comparative View of Environmental, Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Greenland. The project was financed by the National Science Foundation in USA from 2015-2020. During this time, the team has conducted around 80 visual anthropology workshops with young people in 4 towns and settlements in Greenland: Uummannaq, Sisimiut, Illorsuit and Nuuk. A book with the young people’s photos and captions is in print just now. Another part of the projects was interviews with elders and archival work in Denmark, Greenland and USA. She is currently working on a book about Rockwell Kent and his time in Greenland.