Literary Studies Seminar

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)