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Research subject Media, materiality and literature

Media-oriented literary studies are concerned with how literature is affected by its physical channels, but also how it relates to other art forms and media.

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Literature

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Researchers

Anna Albrektson

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Anna Albrektson
anna.albrektson@littvet.su.se
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Helena Bodin

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
08-16 35 25
Helena Bodin
helena.bodin@littvet.su.se
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Elina Druker

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
08-16 38 35
Elina Druker
elina.druker@littvet.su.se
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Axel Englund

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
08-674 73 26
Axel Englund
axel.englund@littvet.su.se
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Thomas Götselius

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
08-16 34 38
Thomas Götselius
thomas.gotselius@littvet.su.se
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Johan Klingborg

Research Officer

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Johan Klingborg
johan.klingborg@littvet.su.se
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Vera Maria Monus

PhD student

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
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veramaria.monus@littvet.su.se
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Sonya Petersson

Senior lecturer, associate professor, research officer

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
08-16 19 24
Sonya Petersson
sonya.petersson@arthistory.su.se
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Anna Thörnell

PhD student

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Anna Thörnell
anna.thornell@littvet.su.se
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Research projects

The Author’s Hand: A Literary History of Handwriting

We are living in an age when accelerating technological development seems to render handwriting and penmanship superfluous or obsolete. Handwriting, however, has had a deep historical impact that the advent of digital media allows us to analyze anew.

Doctoral studies

The postgraduate studies in Literature consists of four years of fulltime studies with employment. As a PhD student you will be contributing to the research from Stockholm University and to the research environment at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics. The doctoral studies include writing an independent thesis.

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News

Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Research in the border zone between literature and music

In his new research project, literature professor Axel Englund studies the corporeality of music in novels written by modernist writers, including Proust, Mann and Musil. By studying the relationship between music, corporeality and sexuality among these modernist writers, he wants to provide a new understanding of music’s central role in the modern novel.

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Departments and centres

The research activities takes place at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics.

Department of Culture and Aesthetics

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