Research group Transcultural Literary Studies

Our work is concerned with different kinds of literary and cultural mediation – such as translation, self-translation, and re-translation –, and also considers sociological aspects of literary circulation, including how literature is selected, packaged, read and introduced in new cultural contexts. We are interested in how various cultural actors, through their agency and practices, facilitate (or impede) the transfer of literary texts across cultural, national and linguistic borders. Another important and growing area concerns literary multilingualism, including the study of multilingual authors, multilingual texts, and diasporic literatures which challenge traditional notions of monolingual national literatures.