Research in Literature and Language

Literature research at LiU is mainly conducted within the Graduate School in Language and Culture in Europe. As a whole, the research is focused on the study of linguistic processes and products in their cultural context and in a European perspective. This orientation is characterized by both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary and has three principal angles of approach: cultural theory, literary theory and linguistic theory.

The literary research within the Graduate School adopts an international, transnational and cultural perspective with a focus on the history of European literature in a global, postcolonial and intersectional context. Another area of interest concerns literature, media histories, and information cultures, which explores the points of intersection between literary practices and media technology.

One field under joint development is cultural memory, which presupposes collaboration between literary scholars and linguists, focusing on the mediated dimension of memory processes considered as practices and discursive configurations. This collaboration also features in the joint project linguistics and literary theory, where topical research questions are discussed from both a linguistic and literary perspective.

The Graduate School in Language and Culture in Europe which represents the research superstructure of Modern Languages, Language and Culture and Swedish and Literature at the Department of Culture and Communication (IKK). At the research environment in the area of education science, and in close proximity to the Graduate School, research is also conducted in literature with didactic orientation. Literature research is also included in the research programme Cultural history, use of history and modernisation of Tema Q.

Research
• The Graduate School in Language and Culture in Europe
• Cultural history, use of history and modernisation
 

Forskning

• The Graduate School in Language and Culture in Europe
• Cultural history, use of history and modernisation