We use cookies on this website. Cookies help us deliver the best experience on our website. Read about cookies.
Language and Literature
Language and literature at Malmö University is focused on comparative literature, English literature and linguistics, creative writing, comics research, oral history, visual studies, and Language and literature didactics – an educational research field that includes Swedish, Swedish as a second language, and English with a didactic focus.
Language and literature in different contexts
In this research subject, language and literature are phenomena that are interesting in their own rights, but they are also analysed in various historical, social, political, and aesthetical contexts. The subject has a broad and inclusive view of language and literature, which makes it possible to engage with new objects of study (older as well as contemporary). The interdisciplinary approach also results in an ability to develop new theoretical and methodological approaches.
Current research at the School of Arts and Communication, K3, focuses on, among other things, strategies of representation in comics, literary practices within the Swedish unions during the second half of the 20th century, ideophones — also known as expressive and mimetics — which are marked words that depict sensory imagery, the function of intellectuals for Swedish society between 1960-2020, and the functional consequences of composition on comics' narratives.
Culture, language, media and learning
Within this research topic, questions about language development, learning in the media landscape, literature and media reception, language and subject learning and multilingualism are central.
Important elements in the education are studies of children, young people and adults' encounters with and production of texts in different situations, oral as well as written in different media forms.
The conditions for language development are studied in a broader perspective and include the school subjects; Swedish, Swedish as a second language, and English, as well as their use in other school subjects, in higher education and in contexts where learning is not institutionally framed.
Researchers, publications and projects
-
Staff
Anna Arnman - Senior lecturer
anna.arnman@mau.se -
Staff
Tina Askanius - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
tina.askanius@mau.se -
Staff
Sara Bjärstorp - Senior lecturer
sara.bjarstorp@mau.se -
Staff
Alexander Brauer - Doctoral student
alexander.brauer@mau.se -
Staff
Martin Cathcart Fröden - Senior Lecturer within the arts
martin.cathcart-froden@mau.se -
Staff
Jonas Christensen - Senior lecturer
jonas.christensen@mau.se -
BCStaff
Berndt Clavier - Senior lecturer
berndt.clavier@mau.se -
JDStaff
Jakob Friedrich Dittmar - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
jakob.dittmar@mau.se -
Staff
Maria Engberg - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
maria.engberg@mau.se -
AGStaff
Anna-Lena Godhe - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
anna-lena.godhe@mau.se -
CHStaff
Cecilia Hansson - Part-time teacher
cecilia.hansson@mau.se -
LHStaff
Line Henriksen - Senior lecturer
line.henriksen@mau.se -
KJStaff
Kristin Järvstad - Associate Professor
kristin.jarvstad@mau.se -
Staff
Asko Kauppinen - Senior lecturer
asko.kauppinen@mau.se -
Staff
Gunnar Krantz - Professor, within the arts
gunnar.krantz@mau.se -
Staff
Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang - Senior lecturer
chrysogonus.siddha.malilang@mau.se -
Staff
Musrifatun Nangimah - Doctoral student
musrifatun.nangimah@mau.se -
Staff
Magnus Nilsson - Professor/Pro dean
magnus.nilsson@mau.se -
Staff
Pia Nygård Larsson - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
pia.nygard-larsson@mau.se -
Staff
Annika Olsson - Dean/Associate Professor
annika.olsson@mau.se -
PRStaff
Petra Ragnerstam - Senior lecturer
petra.ragnerstam@mau.se -
Staff
Bo Reimer - Professor
bo.reimer@mau.se -
Staff
Kim Ridell - Doctoral student
kim.ridell@mau.se -
PSStaff
Patricia Staaf - Lecturer
patricia.staaf@mau.se -
Staff
Björn Sundmark - Professor
bjorn.sundmark@mau.se -
Staff
Anette Svensson - Senior lecturer
anette.svensson@mau.se -
Staff
Maria Söderling - Doctoral student
maria.soderling@mau.se -
Staff
Revaz Tchantouria - Senior lecturer
revaz.tchantouria@mau.se -
STStaff
Soraya Tharani - Senior lecturer
soraya.tharani@mau.se -
MTStaff
Marie Thavenius - Senior lecturer
marie.thavenius@mau.se -
Staff
Emma Tornborg - Senior lecturer
emma.tornborg@mau.se -
Staff
Karina Vamling - Professor
karina.vamling@mau.se -
Staff
Robert Walldén - Associate Professor/Associate senior lecturer
robert.wallden@mau.se -
Staff
Maria Wiktorsson - Senior lecturer
maria.wiktorsson@mau.se
-
2023 | Other
Judiska superhjältar: en introduktion
Martin Lund
-
2023 | Chapter in book
Introduction
Martin Lund, Harriet E. H. Earle
-
2023 | Article in journal
Precarity and Class Consciousness in Contemporary Swedish Working-Class Literature
Magnus Nilsson
-
2023 | Other
Att synliggöra skönlitterära ord och uttryck med texten i centrum
Robert Walldén
-
2023 | Article in journal
Exploring children’s and adults’ joint appropriation of children’s books through the concept of playworld
Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang, Robert Walldén
-
2023 | Article in journal
Diverse views on supervision: Insights from interviews with EAL supervisors in Sweden and Indonesia
Musrifatun Nangimah, Robert Walldén
-
2023 | Conference paper
Supervisors’ feedback priorities and students’ reactions to it: How do Swedes and Indonesians describe it?
Musrifatun Nangimah, Robert Walldén
-
2023 | Article in journal
Precarity and Class Consciousness in Contemporary Swedish Working-Class Literature
Magnus Nilsson
-
2023 | Article in journal
How supervisors provide and students react to EAL thesis supervision: Voices from Sweden and Indonesia
Musrifatun Nangimah, Robert Walldén
-
2023 | Article in journal
Identifying pluralistic approaches in language subjects in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden - A comparative curriculum analysis
Natascha Drachmann, Åsta Haukås, Adrian Lundberg
-
Research project
Swedish Riksdag 1867–2022: An Ecosystem of Linked Open Data
fredrik.noren@mau.se -
Research project
Spaces for multilingualism? An interdisciplinary study of pedagogical potentials and limitations of multilingual approaches and activities...
pia.nygard-larsson@mau.se -
Research project
Conviviality and Contamination
oscar.hemer@mau.se -
Research project
The Uruguayan Exile in Sweden. Tracing the Present Past in Three Generations
pal.brunnstrom@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Graphical models and the agency surrounding them: Designing and re-design narrative text in early compulsory school
kim.ridell@mau.se -
Research project
VALIANT: Virtual Innovation and Support Networks for Teachers, An Erasmus+ KA3 European Policy Experimentation
anna.warnsby@mau.se -
Research project
The Digital Gothic. Rethinking ethics, media and monsters in a digital age
bo.reimer@mau.se -
Research project
Welfare State Analytics: Text Mining and Modeling Swedish Politics, Media & C ulture, 1945-1989 (WeStAc)
fredrik.noren@mau.se -
Research project
Developing academic literacies in higher education contexts – Challenges and opportunities for students with different backgrounds
lotta.bergman@mau.se