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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
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Anna Arnman - Senior lecturer
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Tina Askanius - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Mikael Berger - Senior lecturer
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Sara Bjärstorp - Senior lecturer
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Alexander Brauer - Doctoral student
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Martin Cathcart Fröden - Senior Lecturer within the arts
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Jonas Christensen - Senior lecturer
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Berndt Clavier - Senior lecturer
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Jakob Friedrich Dittmar - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Maria Engberg - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Anna-Lena Godhe - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Cecilia Hansson - Lecturer
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Line Henriksen - Senior lecturer
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Kristin Järvstad - Professor
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Asko Kauppinen - Senior lecturer
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Gunnar Krantz - Professor, within the arts
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Adrian Lundberg - Senior lecturer
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Manuela Lupsa - Senior lecturer
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Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang - Senior lecturer
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Musrifatun Nangimah - Doctoral student
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Magnus Nilsson - Professor
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Pia Nygård Larsson - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Annika Olsson - Dean/Associate Professor
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Petra Ragnerstam - Senior lecturer
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Bo Reimer - Professor
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Kim Ridell - Doctoral student
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Patricia Staaf - Lecturer
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Björn Sundmark - Professor
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Anette Svensson - Senior lecturer
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Revaz Tchantouria - Senior lecturer
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Soraya Tharani - Senior lecturer
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Marie Thavenius - Senior lecturer
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Emma Tornborg - Senior lecturer
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Karina Vamling - Professor
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Robert Walldén - Senior lecturer/Associate Professor
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Maria Wiktorsson - Senior lecturer
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Anna Wärnsby - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
anna.warnsby@mau.se
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2023 | Chapter in book
Nacka Skoglunds En miljon för en klackspark , Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimovic och andra idrottsmemoarer som nordisk arbetarlitteratur
Annika Olsson
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2023 | Chapter in book
Forord
Magnus Nilsson, Nicklas Freisleben Lund, Anker Gemzøe, Erik Svendsen
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2023 | Collection (editor)
Nordisk arbejderlitteratur: Internationale perspektiver og forbindelser
Magnus Nilsson, Nicklas Freisleben Lund, Anker Gemzøe, Erik Svendsen
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2023 | Chapter in book
Hjältar och drakar i konsten och historien
Anette Svensson, Klas Öhling
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2023 | Article in journal
Lust att läsa eller att låta bli?
Lina Samuelsson, Marie Öhman, Birgitta Jansson
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2023 | Chapter in book
A Will of One’s Own: Karin Tidbeck’s Short Stories from a Posthumanist Perspective
Emma Tornborg
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2023 | Article in journal
Adult migrants' voices about learning and using Swedish at work placements in basic language education
Robert Walldén
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2023 | Article in journal
Arbetarlyriken har aldrig varit mer vital
Magnus Nilsson
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2023 | Conference paper
Acceptabilitetsbedömningar av ena meningar – syntaktiska och informationsstrukturella begränsningar.
Anders Agebjörn, Philippe Collberg
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2023 | Conference paper
Skolbakgrund, strategianvändning och ordförrådsutveckling på sfi
Lars Bokander, Anders Agebjörn
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Research project
Teacher Research Literacy (TREL): Comparative Trajectories in the Nordic-Baltic Region
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Precariat, Precarity and Precariousness in (Post-) Welfare-State Scandinavian Literatures
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Swedish Riksdag 1867–2022: An Ecosystem of Linked Open Data
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Spaces for multilingualism? An interdisciplinary study of pedagogical potentials and limitations of multilingual approaches and activities...
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The Uruguayan Exile in Sweden. Tracing the Present Past in Three Generations
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Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Graphical models and the agency surrounding them: Designing and re-design narrative text in early compulsory school
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VALIANT: Virtual Innovation and Support Networks for Teachers, An Erasmus+ KA3 European Policy Experimentation
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Welfare State Analytics: Text Mining and Modeling Swedish Politics, Media & C ulture, 1945-1989 (WeStAc)
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Developing academic literacies in higher education contexts – Challenges and opportunities for students with different backgrounds
Doctoral studies in Language and Literature in Education
Malmö University offers doctoral studies in Language and Literature in Education.
Languages and Literature in Education is a research field within Educational Sciences, which includes Swedish, Swedish as a second language, and English, all with a focus on subject didactics. The main areas of research are language development, learning in the media landscape, literature and media reception, language and subject learning, and multilingualism. Important elements in the doctoral programme are studies of children, young people’s, and adults’ encounters with (and production of) oral and written texts in different situations and various media forms, as well as their opportunities for using their collective linguistic resources as part of language, knowledge and identity development.
The conditions for language development are studied from a broader perspective and include the school subjects of Swedish, Swedish as a second language, and English, as well as the use of these languages in other school subjects, in higher education, and in contexts where learning is not institutionally framed.
The doctoral programme is provided by the Faculty of Education and Society.
Contact for doctoral studies in Language and Literature in Education: Anna Wärnsby
Contact
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Magnus Nilsson - Professor
Language and Literature at the Faculty of Culture and Society
magnus.nilsson@mau.se
040-665 72 29Faculty of Culture and Society
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Anna Wärnsby - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
Language and Literature at the Faculty of Education and Society
anna.warnsby@mau.se
040-665 80 72Department of Culture, Languages and Media