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Research subject Modern and Contemporary literature

Research on modern and contemporary literature extends from around 1800 to the present day. It includes poetry as well as drama and prose.

Stockholm University has a large number of researchers working on literature from around 1800 to the present day. Both modernity, modernism and contemporary literature are represented. Research on Swedish literature during this period is dominant and ranges from, for example, the modernist Elin Wägner, Pär Lagerkvist, Edith Södergran, Artur Lundkvist and August Strindberg to more contemporary authors such as Birgitta Trotzig, Lars Norén and Sara Stridsberg.

But there are also several researchers working on literature from other languages and countries, such as European and American modernism; Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann and Gertrud Stein. More contemporary research on literature from other language areas also includes projects on Latin American exile literature, Caribbean literature and American contemporary prose.

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Researchers

Krzysztof Bak

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
08-16 35 24
Krzysztof Bak
kr.bak@littvet.su.se
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Frida Beckman

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Frida Beckman
frida.beckman@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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Carin Franzén

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Carin Franzén
carin.franzen@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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Hannah Hinz Cornelli

PhD student, study councellor, Erasmus coordinator

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
08-16 33 40
Hannah Hinz Cornelli
hannah.hinz@tyska.su.se
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Sofia Iaffa Nylén

PhD student

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Sofia Iaffa
sofia.iaffa.nylen@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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Per-Olof Mattsson

Senior lecturer, associate professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
per-olof.mattsson@littvet.su.se
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Ulf Olsson

Professor emeritus

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Ulf Olsson
ulf.olsson@littvet.su.se
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Maria Trejling

Researcher

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Maria Trejling
maria.trejling@littvet.su.se
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Maria Wahlström

Director of studies

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
08-16 41 23
Maria Wahlström.
maria.wahlstrom@littvet.su.se
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Research group

Forum Modernism

Forum Modernism at Stockholm University is an association for researchers whose work in some way concerns modernism, both through studies of its various mainstream and marginalized expressions, and through critical examinations of the concept as such.

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Research projects

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In this project, within the field of spatial literary studies, I analyze how domesticity, modern architecture and ideas of a good home are depicted in short stories from Swedish journals from the 1930´s.

Illustration from the 1930´s magazine Idun.
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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.

Courses and programmes

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

Ocean Bound Women in the 19th century

This spring World Scientific Publishing will publish the book Ocean Bound Women (London och Singapore: WSPC, 2021), written by Anders Hallengren, associate professor in Literature at Stockholm university. The book presents unique materials from a sailor's coffin with hitherto unpublished materials from Swedish seafaring women from the 19th century.

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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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