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Thomas Rosén

Senior Lecturer

Department of Languages and
Literatures
Mail
thomas.rosen@sprak.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Room number
D416
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Thomas Rosén

Research

I am a Slavist and Balkanologist. My research has one historical and one contemporary branch:

Historical research

I carry out research in the field of historical sociolinguistics, in which I investigate the development of the Russian language in the 1990s and the position of Russian in Sweden in the period 1721–1945. I am particularly interested in questions related to the role of the written language in society and literacy.

Read more: Russian in the 1740s

Contemporary research

I research various aspects of the language situation in contemporary Ukraine, including language shifts and the Ukrainian authorities’ communications with citizens.

Teaching

I am currently a senior lecturer in Ukrainian and Russian. I was previously a senior lecturer in Russian, Ukrainian, Albanian and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian at Uppsala University and Stockholm University.

Project

Together with Dr Alla Bidniuk, Lutsk, I run the Ukrainian-Swedish-Georgian Online Dictionary Project , funded by the Swedish Institute.