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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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Staff
Anna Arnman - Senior lecturer
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Tina Askanius - Associate Professor/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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JDStaff
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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LHStaff
Line Henriksen - Senior lecturer
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KJStaff
Kristin Järvstad - Associate Professor/Associate Professor
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Asko Kauppinen - Senior lecturer
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Gunnar Krantz - Professor, within the arts
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Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang - Senior lecturer
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Musrifatun Nangimah - Doctoral student
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Magnus Nilsson - Professor/Pro dean
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Pia Nygård Larsson - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Annika Olsson - Dean/Associate Professor
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PRStaff
Petra Ragnerstam - Senior lecturer
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Bo Reimer - Professor
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KRStaff
Kim Ridell - Doctoral student
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Anette Svensson - Senior lecturer
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Maria Söderling - Doctoral student
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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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Karina Vamling - Associate Professor/Professor
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Robert Walldén - Associate Professor/Associate senior lecturer
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Maria Wiktorsson - Senior lecturer
maria.wiktorsson@mau.se
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2023 | Collection (editor)
Identity and History in Non-Anglophone Comics
Martin Lund, Harriet E. H. Earle
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2023 | Chapter in book
Reading and Materiality: Conditions of Digital Reading
Maria Engberg
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2022 | Chapter in book
Efterord
Magnus Nilsson
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2022 | Book
Bask'uri gramat'ik'is mok'le nark'vevi: (kartveluri p'aralelebit)
Revaz Tchantouria
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2022 | Article, book review
Tillsammans i Engelsfors: Socialt fiktionsbruk i Engelsforstrilogins digitala fangemenskap 2011-2016. Tuva Haglund.
Anette Svensson
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2022 | Chapter in book
Snowy State: The Children's History of Sweden
Björn Sundmark
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2022 | Conference paper
Picturebooks and Visual Thinking Strategies in the Digital Classroom Context
J. Shaun Nolan, Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang
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2022 | Article in journal
On the literariness of working-class literature
Magnus Nilsson
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2022 | Article in journal
Odesa in Diachronic and Synchronic Studies of Urban Linguistic Landscapes of Ukraine Conducted between 2015 and 2019
Svetlana L'nyavskiy
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2022 | Article in journal
Joining the adventures of Sally Jones: Discursive strategies for providing access to literary language in a linguistically diverse classroom
Robert Walldén, Pia Nygård Larsson
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Research project
Spaces for multilingualism? An interdisciplinary study of pedagogical potentials and limitations of multilingual approaches and activities...
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Conviviality and Contamination
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Research project
The Uruguayan Exile in Sweden. Tracing the Present Past in Three Generations
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Research project
VALIANT: Virtual Innovation and Support Networks for Teachers, An Erasmus+ KA3 European Policy Experimentation
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Research project
The Digital Gothic. Rethinking ethics, media and monsters in a digital age
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Research project
Developing academic literacies in higher education contexts – Challenges and opportunities for students with different backgrounds
lotta.bergman@mau.se