Division for Language and Literature

Research groups

• The Nord Research Group for Children's Literature in ELT

  The Nord Research Group for Children's Literature in ELT aims to deepen interdisciplinary and international connections for children's literature in language teaching. The group's projects embrace children’s literature, education and English Language Teaching (ELT) research.

• Humanities, Education and Culture

  This group supports research focused on the Humanities, particularly as they pertain to education, subject formation, and cultural development. Bringing together scholars from a range of fields, including literature, religion, philosophy, and history, Humanities, Education, and Culture aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, international participation, and high-profile dissemination.

• War and conflict in commemorative culture and political governance

  Cross-disciplinary research group focusing on how war, conflict and acts of terrorism affect societies by the way they are remembered, and how the memories of such experiences may be used by various agents in processes of collective commemoration, political governance and educational practices.

• Literature and literature education

  The research group is a forum for the discussion and collaboration in the field of literary research, with emphasis on literary reading and literary education; in particular, the examination of the interfaces between literary studies, literary history and literary didactics (ger. Literaturdidaktik). For example, we wish to explore how literary studies inform literary didactics, and vice versa.

• Saami Research Group

  Trance-disciplinary research group on linguistic, cultural, historical and didactical topics concerning Saami and Indigenous issues. The group consists of scholars at the Faculty of Teacher Education and Arts, from campuses both in Lule Saami and South Saami traditional territories.

• Language in the North

  The research group will work within the framework of a socio-cultural form of linguistics – in practice that means different variants of what is often referred to as sociolinguistics.

• Extended Classroom and Varied Teaching Methods Research Group

  Fields of research in educational settings are multidisciplinary, with a common focus on extended classroom and varied instructional methods.