About the group
The group is committed to exploring a variety of texts and literary genres in a pan-European perspective, with a focus on their production, transmission and reception.
It will consider factors such as their relationship with classical and vernacular antecedents, as well as the manner in which they circulated and were interpreted in diverse cultural environments and communities of readers and writers through time.
The research group constitutes a framework for different scholarly collaborations and activities, such as reading groups in order to discuss texts or present work in progress, guest lectures, seminars, workshops and conferences.
The main aim of the group is to create a fertile ground for successful international research projects and innovative ideas. We are interested in hosting Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships.
At ILOS (Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages) we welcome applications with strong proposals for doctoral projects exploring early modern English, French, Italian, or Spanish literature. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: the development of literary genres across Europe in relation to classical and vernacular antecedents, the commentary tradition and exegesis of texts, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary criticism and the building of canons, philological practices and the circulation of texts in various environments, book history, translation theory and practices as well as issues of authorship and readership.
Projects
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The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden: Women, Politics, and Reform in Renaissance Italy
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The Lagrime Poetry in Early Modern Italy. Texts, Poetics, and Genealogies
Cooperation
This group is a collaboration between scholars at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas and the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages .
The group also cooperates with The Norwegian Renaissance Society