University of Gothenburg
Department of Languages and Literatures

Department of Languages and Literatures

Trappan, Humanisten
  2. Department of Languages and Literatures

Our department comprises all the languages taught at the Faculty of Humanities, with the exception of Swedish and the other Nordic languages. We offer courses and pursue research in the major European languages as well as in languages that are more distant from a geographical and historical point of view. It is not only language that is the object of our courses and our research, but also the literatures and cultures that the language in question is part of.

We offer independent courses at undergraduate and master levels in the different languages as well as doctoral studies in most of these. A number of the languages are part of various programmes: teacher education, the Master's programme Languages and Intercultural Communication, etc. We also offer a number of web-based courses and distance courses.

News and Events

Lecture
Transitivization av verbs in Dutch. The role of particles and prefixes
Visiting PhD student Ann-Sophie Vrielycnk presents her doctoral project
Lecture
The language of the body and bio-political language in ancient China and beyond
Seminar
Mock Viva: Simon Msovela, African Languages
CIP: Conservatism, Illiberalism, Populism - Seminar series
3 March, 20 April, 7 May
News – 23 February 2026
Differing views in Arabic mother tongue tuition
A new doctoral thesis shows that teachers of Arabic mother tongue tuition share positive views of Standard Arabic, but hold…
Conference
Worlding Francophone/graph: Literary and Artistic Modes of (Non)belonging
Call for papers
Research story/portrait
Take a trip through history on European railways
Trains: a fast, comfortable and climate-friendly way to get around Europe. But for researcher Anna Blennow, train travel is…
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Our research

Areas of research
Our four interdisciplinary and multilingual areas of research
Research by language area
Our research is characterized by interdisciplinarity and international collaborations, closely linked to our educational…
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