Helle Strandgaard Jensen is an Associate Professor of contemporary cultural history and holds a joint-directorship at Center for Digital History Aarhus (CEDHAR). She received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in 2013 and has since been a visiting fellow at several universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, Norway, Canada and Sweden.
Jensen is the author of Sesame Streeet. A Transnational History (Oxford University Press, 2023) and From Superman to Social Realism: Children’s Media and Scandinavian Childhood (John Benjamins Publishing Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in Media History; Journal of Children and Media; Media, Culture & Society; Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth; The Programming Historian; and elsewhere.