Canadian Studies

Canadian Studies is an interdisciplinary field that deals with all social and cultural phenomena related to Canada.

Democracy in Latin America

Since the onset of the so-called Third Wave of Democracy, research on democracy in Latin America has shifted focus from the transition and consolidation of democracy to the quality of present democratic regimes.

Development Studies in Latin America

The research area addresses the central elements of different generations of development thought and their political implications in Latin America, from modernization theory and the dependency school, to sustainable development and more critical thoughts on development.

Environmental Humanities with a focus on Latin America

Research within this area uses theories and approaches from the social sciences and humanities to understand past, present, and future environmental issues in Latin America.

Francophone Cultural Studies

Francophone Cultural Studies is, above all, an epistemology of social-historical contexts related to the French language.

French and Francophone Literature

This research area deals with literature from France and the French-speaking world.

French Discourse Analysis

Discourse analysis is the study of how language, when used in communication, acquires meaning, purpose and becomes coherent. The meaning of linguistic expressions derive not only from linguistic forms and propositional content, but from the interplay between the text, the situation and the cultural context in which the utterance is produced.

French Historical Linguistics

In historical linguistics research are being made on phonetic change. French has in fact undergone radical change concerning sounds.

French Linguistics

French Philology

The focus on research in French has been editing texts in Old French. The number of texts is very high and there are several genres and periods, from the 12th century to the 16th, where the period of Modern French begins. These texts are a good base for linguistic studies.

French Second Language Acquisition

An interdisciplinary field of research, drawing on linguistics, as well as psychology, education and other social sciences. Research in second language acquisition aims primarily to understand development in an additional language that one learns as a teenager or adult and how second language acquisition differs from first language acquisition.

Gender studies with a focus on Latin America

This research area investigates gender, sexuality and corporeality in a variety of Latin American contexts including public spaces, the home, formal and informal workplaces, media and consumption practices, as well as diverse forms of sociopolitical mobilization for or against sexual and reproductive rights.

Global Latin American Studies

Latin America is not an isolated region in the world. Since colonization, the region has been strongly interlinked with global economic, political, social and cultural systems.

Greek linguistics

Research in Ancient Greek linguistics at Stockholm University includes the history of language and grammar as well as specialized studies applying modern linguistic methods to Greek negations, interjections and particles.

Greek literature

Research in ancient Greek literature at Stockholm University covers the whole period from Classical and Hellenistic Greek to Late Antiquity and the later Byzantine era.

Hispanic Literature

Research on literature in the Hispanic World at Stockholm University is carried out over a broad range of topics, with particular focus on the Golden Age writing as well as modern literature from the twentieth and twenty-first, but also on the cradle of that Golden Age, that is Spanish medieval literature from the thiteenth to the fifteenth centuries.

Italian Historical Linguistics

Italian historical linguistics is concerned with the evolution of linguistic structures from Latin to Italian and their development from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth century.

Italian Linguistics

Italian linguistics is concerned with the linguistic structures of contemporary Italian. Moreover, it studies the use of contemporary Italian in literary and non-literary texts.

Italian Literature

The research area Italian literature is a very broad field that examines literary texts in different genres, from different epochs and from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Italian Philology

Italian philology is the study of literary and non-literary texts written in Italian or in one of the Italian dialects from the Middle Ages to the present.

Italian Second Language Acquisition

At Stockholm University research is conducted within in the field of second language acquisition, where the learning of the Romance languages ​​in particular is in focus.

Latin literature

Scholarly research in Latin literature at Stockholm University concerns primarily Roman literature, along with cultural studies, broadly understood, even about medieval works in Latin.

Lusophone literature

Portuguese Linguistics

Research in Portuguese linguistics at Stockholm University touches on all language levels, including language use, grammatical structures, pronunciation patterns and vocabulary. Our researchers see Portuguese in a broad sense and are interested in different geographical varieties, Portuguese-based Creole languages and various Iberian languages.

Portuguese Second Language Acquisition

In all the varieties of Portuguese in Africa, Asia and Brazil, Portuguese has historically been, or is still, spoken mainly as a second language. Portuguese is also spoken as a second language by large immigrant communities in Portugal.

Portuguese Sociolinguistics

Portuguese is the official language in ten countries in Africa, Asia, Europe South America and is spoken as a first language, second language, foreign language or heritage language in a multitude of contexts and regions around the world.

Social movements and inequalities in Latin America

Latin America is one of the most unequal regions in the world.

Spanish Discourse Analysis

Research areas within Discourse Analysis deals with institutional judicial discourse, journalistic discourse and political discourse.

Spanish Linguistics

Research focusing on dialogue, interaction and spoken and written discourse is a dynamic field that has developed considerably over the past two decades within the Romance linguistics research network at Stockholm University.

Spanish philology

The study of Spanish philology is conducted at Stockholm University in close collaboration with literary research on early Castilian literature.

Spanish Second Language Acquisition

In Sweden, Spanish is one of the most widely spoken Second Languages. Spanish is spoken by almost 600 million people worldwide, has 23 academias and is an official language in 21 countries. Spanish is the most commonly chosen Foreign Language in Swedish primary and secondary schools.

Textual Criticism/Editorial Philology within Classics

Textual criticism aims att establishing the text (wording) in written documents, chiefly from premodern times.