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News 8 Jan, 2021

New Book on Swedish Working-class Fiction in Translation

Swedish working-class fiction from the 1930s has quite rightly been regarded as one of Sweden's most important contributions to world literature. Nowhere else has a single generation of self-taught writers with origins in the lower social classes had such a strong and long-lasting impact. But what happens once this literature travels outside of Sweden's borders? Does this literature have a life there?

News 18 Nov, 2020

New Publication: Invoking Flora Nwapa

We're proud to present another book written by a member of our research group: Invoking Flora Nwapa: Nigerian Women Writers, Femininity and Spirituality in World Literature by Paula Uimonen. 

Call for papers 4 Nov, 2020

Special Issue: Comparative Literature Studies

‘Decentering Global Literary History: The Role of Translation and Cultural Relations in ‘Peripheral’ Literatures’

Guest Editors: Diana Roig-Sanz, Elisabet Carbó-Catalan, Ana Kvirikashvili (IN3- Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

CfP_Decentering Global Literary History

News 7 Oct, 2020

New Book: Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures

Edited by Stefan Helgesson, Birgit Neumann, and Gabriele Rippl (De Gruyter, 2020)
News 7 Oct, 2020

New Book: Lire l'Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre

Exotisme et établissement français aux Îles (1625-1671)

By Christina Kullberg (Brill 2020)
Call for papers 30 Sep, 2020

World Literature and the Minor

6–7 May 2021
University of Leuven, Belgium (online)
News 29 May, 2020

Special Issue of Textual Practice: Inscriptions of Worldliness

The second publication resulting from our conference "Loose Tongues: World Literature and the Vernacular" is now available online:
News 25 May, 2020

PhD Position: James Baldwin and the Dynamics of World Literature

A fully-funded doctoral research position is available in the project "James Baldwin’s 21st-century career" at the University of Leuven’s Literature Department. 
News 6 Apr, 2020

Special Issue of Interventions: Publication, Circulation and the Vernacular

As the first of two publications resulting from our conference “Loose Tongues: World Literature and the Vernacular” in August 2017 in Stockholm, this special issue looks at the fate of the vernacular in discrete contexts of circulation and publication.

Call for papers 23 Jan, 2020

World Literature and the Culture of Texts


7 May 2020
Graduate Symposium at Stockholm University