Literary studies
Literature has an obvious role at the department. Not only as a tool for language learning or as a conveyor of culture and society, but as a research subject in its own right. We research and teach in literary studies in all the department's languages.
The literary scholars at the department cover a wide spectrum of research fields within Finno-Ugric, German, Romance and Slavic literatures:
- Transnational literatures
- The posthuman novel
- Literary theory
- Translation theory
- Reception theory
- Urban literature
- 19th century literature
- Travel literature
- Drama studies
- Postcolonial literature
- Women's literature