Research at Department of Modern Languages
At the Department of Modern Languages, there is research in four areas: Finno-Ugric languages, German, Romance languages and Slavic languages. There is research in both linguistics and literary studies in all language areas.
Research projects
- Houda Landolsi: "Neither Unity nor Multiplicity: Reformulation and Exemplification in the Discourse on Integration"
- Karine Åkerman Sarkisian: "Cultural evolution of texts"
- Maria Engström: "No(w)stalgia of Modernity: Neo-Soviet Myth in Contemporary Russian Culture and Politics"
- Miriam Thegel: "Survival of the Fittest: Semantic Evolution in the Spanish Modal System"
- Sebastian Cöllen: ”Att säga det outsägliga. En kognitionslingvistisk analys av metaforikens funktion i Mechthild von Magdeburgs mystika verk”
Seminars
The Department of Modern Languages has four seminar series. The seminars feature the department's own researchers and PhD students as well as guest lecturers. The seminars are primarily intended for PhD students, teachers and researchers, but interested students are most welcome.
The semiars are announced in our calendar.
Contact persons:
- Finno-Ugric seminar: Rogier Blokland
- German seminar: Dessislava Stoeva-Holm
- Romance seminar: Igor Venieri
- Slavic seminar: Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath
Conferences
Sometimes conferences are organised at the department, and sometimes researchers from the department are involved as co-organisers of larger conferences.
Upcoming conferenses:
PhD studies
The Department of Modern Languages offers third-cycle courses and programmes in Finno–Ugric Languages, German, Romance Languages and Slavic Languages.
The department has an extremely broad research profile and doctoral students with both Swedish and international educational backgrounds have defended their dissertations with us.