Robert Zola Christensen is Associate Professor of Danish at Lund University. He has previously held academic positions as External Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen (1992–2000) and as Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Southern Denmark in Kolding (2001–2004). From 2021 to 2024, he was on leave from Lund while serving as Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea.

He holds a Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies and has pursued academic studies in France (Aix-en-Provence, 1987–89), Sweden (Lund, 1990–92), and the United States (Berkeley, 1998).

In addition to his academic work, Robert Zola Christensen is an accomplished fiction writer. His novels and short stories have been translated into a range of languages, including English, Swedish, German, French, Russian, Serbian, Czech, and Greek.

He has also contributed significantly to the cultural sector, working as a consultant and idea developer in the Danish film industry, collaborating with Radiatorfilm (Aarhus), Nimbus Film (Copenhagen), and Zentropa (Hvidovre). From 2011 to 2013, he served as a member of the Danish Ministry of Culture’s Committee for Fiction Literature.