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

Do you want to improve your skills in written and spoken English? Do you want to read English literature and learn about the cultures tied to the English language? Learn more about our English courses and our research environment.

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.

The Swedish Research Council highlights Sweden’s strong international position in humanities research. A report confirms that ¸£Àû¼§ plays an important and leading role, which makes the SoK research environment both pleased and proud.

Literary scholar Elin Käck is probably the only person who has done her work experience programme with a poet. She enjoys spending her summers in various archives and has recently presented her research on American poets’ travels in Europe.

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.

Nine young researchers will share almost SEK 18 million from Catharina Högbom’s and Michael Cocozza’s Foundation for research and culture. The money is to fund research at ¸£Àû¼§.

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond grants over SEK 23 million to research projects in the humanities and social sciences at ¸£Àû¼§. These include the significance of names, the consequences of uranium mining, political polarisation, and robots.

Swedes read a lot - especially if you include film and TV subtitles. But does the subtitler themselves play any role? In search of an answer, researcher Lars Jämterud has looked at the translation of the classic British comedy series Fawlty Towers.

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.