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.

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 (from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) 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 (see further under Spanish philology). 

The fundamental concept of the Baroque - in both its Early Modern and more modern literary guises - provides a central research topic within the Department of Romance Studies and Classics.

We study Spanish-language literature from a broad socio-cultural context, whereby literary creation, understood within the society and culture in which it originated, has a critical role in understanding the nature of that historical, societal and cultural background. Central research fields are thus examinations of literature and power; literature and the environment; the teaching of literature; literature, memory and identity; and how literature in Spanish has developed within the over-arching field of world literatures.