Division of Communication, Literature and Swedish (KLS)

We have basic course in Media and Communication Studies (MKV) and educate linguists and literary scholars via independent courses and subject teachers for different levels in the education system.

Research

Research environments

Le mur des je t'aime. Place des Abbesses, Paris. By Britchi Mirela [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons.

The Language and Culture research environment

The Language and Culture research environment is a meeting place for linguistic and literary research in a cultural context.

Doctoral studies

Doctoral Studies in Language and Culture

Doctoral studies in language and culture are multi- and interdisciplinary. Our doctoral students have typically studied modern foreign languages, Swedish, Swedish as a second language, general linguistics or comparative literature.

News

25 years with Language and Culture 鈥� Nigel Musk was there from the start

The research environment Language and Culture was established in 2000. Nigel Musk, who left London for Sweden in his youth, has been a part of it from the beginning. Here, he reflects on the development of the environment and the challenges ahead.

Poet to become visiting professor in Tage Danielsson鈥檚 name

She devotes herself to the power of words and sees poetry as a tool of knowledge. Athena Farrokhzad steps into academia with the ambition to shake up the templates with the help of rhymes and humour.

Passionate about teaching 鈥� now she receives largest teacher award

Helen Winzell grew up in a home where both parents were teachers. To follow in their footsteps was not on her agenda 鈥� until the day she substituted for her mother. Passionate about teaching since then, she now receives Ingemars Lärarpris.

Seminars and conferences

The Nordic Network for L2 Pronunciation

The Nordic Network for research on pronunciation and pronunciation teaching in a second language perspective, NNL2P, connects researchers and PhD candidates with a special interest in pronunciation and pronunciation teaching.

Contact us

Head of Division

Staff

Emma Eldelin

Senior Associate Professor

Sabina Ivenäs Dyverfeldt

Lecturer

Maritha Johansson

Senior Associate Professor

Malin Löf Nyqvist

Postdoc

Bengt-Göran Martinsson

Professor

Andreas Nyblom

Associate Professor, Docent

Fredrik Olsson

Lecturer

Sara Peltokangas Wilzén

PhD student

Ann-Sofie Persson

Associate Professor, Docent

Carl-Wilhelm Siwers

PhD student

Stina-Karin Skillermark

Associate Professor

Christian Svensson Limsjö

Associate Professor, Docent

Simon Wessbo

Associate Professor

Helen Winzell

Associate Professor, Head of Division

Organisation

Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)

At the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), social sciences and the humanities gather in environments where research and education work together.

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