Stine Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to the Netherlands at a young age.
She is a literary theorist and philosopher and works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts at the Free University of Amsterdam where she teaches courses on aesthetics, popular culture and the relation between art and society.
Stine combines her academic work with a number of journalistic activities. She is a literary critic for the leading Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad in British fiction and non-fiction and has a column in NRC Handelsblad.
She published a number of books and is frequently a guest in radio- and television programmes to comment on current issues in arts, culture and politics. Recurring themes in her work are masculinity, femininity, multiculturalism, ethnicity, love, lying and sexuality.