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Event 23 Nov, 2021

Reading micro travel: confinement, deceleration, verticality (2nd Dec)

Welcome to a seminar by Professor Charles Forsdick at Stockholm University next week. 

Date: Thursday 2nd December 2021, 4-5:30pm
Venue: B 522A, Department of Romance Languages and Classics, Stockholm University
*NB. Please note the change of room*

News 15 Nov, 2021

Erik Falk on P1 Kultur

Erik Falk from our group has contributed to a recent Swedish radio programme on Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah. The programme can be listened to in full here: https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/in-i-texten-p1-kultur-laser-abdulrazak-gurnah

News 8 Oct, 2021

Nobel Prize to Abdulrazak Gurnah

Congratulations to this year's Nobel Prize laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah! Here you can read the responses of Stefan Helgesson and Erik Falk from our group yesterday in the Swedish press: 

Event 21 Sep, 2021

Literary Transnationalism and Creativity in the XXIst Century (2nd workshop)

Call for papers 21 Sep, 2021

Special Issue: Literary Multilingualism Studies - The Future of the Field

Journal of Literary Multilingualism

CFP Special Issue 1

Literary multilingualism studies is a relatively new but burgeoning area of research. With the impact of translation studies, the ‘transnational turn’ within literary studies, and the growing relevance of the ‘postmonolingual condition’ in the contemporary world, multilingual and translingual writing practices – considered in the past to be exceptional and unusual – are now at the forefront of literary studies.