Research groups
The research group will explore how questions concerning identity and diversity are pertinent to the discussion of aesthetic expressions, theories, and concepts.
How have various forms of friendship and community been depicted and analyzed in philosophy, literature, and art?
What characterises the area studies approach, and which research questions are central to scholars working within area studies?
Borders are fundamental to our dealings with the world. How does literature help us understand borders?
How are memories transferred between cultures, and how are cultural memories important to understand identity?
Drawing on literature, film, art and urban walks, the research group will explore new ways of reading the city.
Literary and cultural texts that explore environmental issues provide important sites for ecocritical analysis.
How do ecology, biodiversity, and neurodiversity relate to each other?
The research group provides a forum for the discussion of topics related to corpus-based studies of English.
How do figurations like metaphor and metonymy function in various discourses and contexts?
How can we understand the concept of resistance and its various forms of expression?
Our research is dedicated to French history, politics, and literature.
The group investigates language use by analysing translations from ILOS’s Foreign Language Portal.
We study linguistic variation by collecting and analysing both historical and contemporary data from a range of languages and language varieties.
We are interested in migration and real and metaphorical borders, and how these phenomena shape individual and collective identity.
We study popular culture in its manifold forms as an interdisciplinary and intersectional practice.
Bringing together researchers investigating how speakers go beyond linguistically encoded meaning in communication, and how children develop this ability.
We seek to understand the different roles that practices and conceptions of time play in aesthetic experience and in everyday life.
IberoARH brings together researchers interested in the cultures, literatures, arts, languages, societies and histories of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula
We explore Norwegian students’ language learning and writing development in their second language, English, and in the foreign languages French, Spanish, and German.