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Helle Strandgaard Jensen is an Associate Professor of contemporary cultural history at the Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark and holds a joint-directorship at Center for Digital History Aarhus (CEDHAR).

Jensen received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in 2013. She 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), and 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.