This homepage is not so much about my person, but primarily about my research in linguistics and Greek and Roman literature. I have chosen to publish numerous articles, texts and translation produced in the time. The published material includes both rather technical studies (especially on linguistic issues) and more popular products.

I am an Associate Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Aarhus (at the Institute for Language, Literature and Culture).
Having completed my PhD thesis on the dialect of the Spartan lyric poet Alcman, I studied, in 2003-4, Herodotus' description of the Scythians at the Danish Research Foundation’s Centre of Black Sea Studies. Later, 2004-7, I was occupied, with a grant from the Carlsberg-Foundation, with a rhetorical-linguistic analysis of Roman epistolography at the Centre for Rhetoric at the University of Aarhus.

Some words about myself: My name is pronounced ['djɒ:dj 'heŋə]. I am 36 years old and live together with my husband Jakob in Vejlby in the northern part of Århus (the capital of Jutland). Besides my passion for language, I am also interested in theology, philosophy and politics, if one dare believe that these three horses may be joined under one and the same yoke. I am engaged in different organisations, e.g. as the president of the local LGB association since September 2006 and as a member of the Social-Democrats.