Educational Sciences and Mathematics
Literary Studies Seminar
The Literary Studies Seminar is an inclusive forum for literary scholarship and criticism at MDU.
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The Literary Studies Seminar is a broad meeting-place for research on literature and gathers scholars from the subjects of English and Comparative Literature.
Research Areas
- American Literary Naturalism
- Animal Studies
- Autofiction
- Classical Reception Studies
- Digital Humanities
- Ecocriticism
- Literary Didactics
- Literary Criticism
- Migration Literature
- Modernism Studies
- Narrative Identity
- Narrative Theory
- World Literature
Current Research
The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism (Karin M. Danielsson and Kenneth K. Brandt, SCAD, Georgia, USA).
Trans-Species Empathy and Affect in Frank Norris’ The Octopus. (Karin M Danielsson)
An Animal Studies Approach to Teaching Naturalism and Jack London. (Karin M. Danielsson)
How to Think with Animals or: Alterity and Liberation in The Wind on the Moon (Karin M. Danielsson)
“Wallace Stevens as World Literature”, vol. 1 and 2 of The Wallace Stevens Journal 2022 (Gül Bilge Han, Bart Eeckhout, University of Antwerp, and Lisa Goldfarb, New York University).
“World Literature, Lotus, and the Cultural Solidarities of the Global South” (Gül Bilge Han).
"Rävjägaren och Pärlemor. Moderskap och biologi hos Kitty Crowther” (Thomas Sjösvärd)
"Under duvornas tecken. Ekelöf mot Sparta” (Thomas Sjösvärd)
“The Crisis of Criticism: A Comparative Perspective” (Lina Samuelsson and Marieke Winkler, Open University, the Netherlands).
Läsfrämjandets ekologi (Lina Samuelsson, Birgitta Jansson and Marie Öhman, Malmö universitet)
Ongoing research projects
The project's goal is to show through a series of articles, both strictly scientific and more popular, the important role Alcman and Sparta play for Swedish-language literature. The project also clarifies the subject's political implications, concerning issues such as strength and vulnerability, patriotism, gender and the use of history.
Project manager at MDU: Thomas Sjösvärd
Main financing: Åke Wibergs Stiftelse
As migration has become an increasingly widespread phenomenon in a globalized world, we have also seen a growing number of literary representations of experiences of migration, in what is sometimes referred to as "migration literature". This project aims to investigate how narrative identity is constructed in autofictions of migration.
Project manager at MDU: Niclas Johansson
Main financing: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond