Research projects

Ancient Languages

Ancient Languages

Virtual Space: New Being of Palaeoslavistic, Antoaneta Granberg, 2018-2020
Digital Resources in Palaeoslavistics: towards Building a Network for Medieval Slavic Sources, Antoaneta Granberg, 2015-2017
Libanius’ Declamations 17–23, Mikael Johansson

Linguistics

Signs of change – Social Identity and Power Reflected in the Linguistic Landscape of Rwanda, Tove Rosendal, 2018-2021
The rise of complex verb constructions in Germanic, Evie Coussé, Gerlof Bouma and Nicoline van der Sijs, 2018-2021
The role of the verb phrase and word order in the expression of definiteness in Bantu languages, Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, 2018-2020
Somali and Prosodic Typology, Laura Downing, Morgan Nilsson, Maarten Mous (2016-2019)
The semantics of verbal morphology in central Tanzanian Bantu languages: a comparative study, Malin Petzell, 2016-2018
Linguistic Marginalization - Understanding the Process and Effects on Development Capacities, Tove Rosendal, 2014-2018
Morphosyntactic variation in the dialects of Xhosa, Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, 2014-2017
Pride and profit: Semiotic landscaping in Galicia and the Basque Country, Johan Järlehed (2014-2018)
Verbal Semantic Fields In Contrast, Pauli Kortteinen
The Central African language cluster Ukhwejo: Geographic localization and linguistic identification, Christina Thornell
Morphosyntactic variation in the dialects of Xhosa, Eva-Marie Bloom Ström 2014-2017
The emergence of periphrastic verb constructions in Dutch. A construction grammar approach to language change, Evie Coussé, 2013-2015.
Social and linguistic transformations of the nation: Linguistic landscapes and landscaping in Spain in an era of increasing globalization and regionalization, Johan Järlehed (2010-2013)

Literature

Disruptive Semiotics: A Kristevan Reading of Thomas Hardy’s Fiction, Doctoral project (English), Catharina Hellberg, 2014-2021
Medieval Arabic Sex Manuals: Manuscript Tradition and Reception, Pernilla Myrne, 2018-2020
Authorship on Trial: Treason at the Dawn of the Cold War, 1944-1949, Marius Hentea, 2017-2020
‘Collective Motherliness’ in Italy and Spain: Reception and Reformulation of Ellen Key's Ideas on Motherhood and Female Sexuality in a Southern European Context (1900-1939), Ulla Åkerström (GU) och Elena Lindholm (UmU), 2016-2019
The Politics of Poetics: The Testimonial Genre and the Literary Prize of Casa de las Américas (1970-2011), Anna Forné, 2016-2018
Love, Body, and Desire: Attitudes to erotic love and women’s sexuality in pre-modern Arabic literature, Pernilla Myrne, 2015-2017
Eloquent Women: Genre, Rhetoric and Gender in Early Arabic Literature, Pernilla Myrne, 2012-2014

Dido´s Anguish in French 16th Century. Hélisenne de Crenne´s Version of the Aeneid: a Critical Text Edition, Britt-Marie Karlsson och Sara Ehrling
Cratylus Sinensis: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Study of the Han Dynasty Rhapsody and Graeco-Roman Poetics, Martin Svensson Ekström
Focusing on the periphery: Francophone literature in Swedish translation during the 20th century, Elisabeth Bladh
Exiles in Print: Modernism and Little Magazines in Paris 1921-1939
Shakespeare's Insides: A Systematic Study of a Dramatic Device, Marcus Nordlund
Images and Imaginations: The History fo Arabic, African and Latin American Literatures in Translation into Swedish, Tetz Rooke, Mikela Lundahl, Cecilia Alvstad
On the border between fact and fiction: testimonial representations of dictatorship in Argentine and Uruguay (1985-2005), Anna Forné
The Gravitation of Memory: Literary, Social and Institutional Testimonies of Dictatorship in the Southern Cone, Anna Forné, GU, Rossana Nofal, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Máximo Badaró, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
The Politics of Translation Metaphors: Shaping Translation Studies, Situating the Translator, Angela Kölling 2013-2016
Mapping the Fluid Self. Water Writing as a Transcultural Strategy in Contemporary German Literature, Linda Karlsson Hammarfelt