Viktig information om undervisningen hösten 2020
2020-07-28
Vi hälsar alla våra studenter välkomna till Engelska institutionen och en ny termin. Liksom under våren kommer verksamheten i höst att påverkas av den pågående pandemin. Det innebär att undervisning och examination under höstterminen kommer att ske online.
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Ny bok - Sofia Ahlberg: Teaching Literature in Times of Crisis
2021-01-05
Teaching Literature in Times of Crisis looks at the range of different crises currently affecting students – from climate change and systemic racism, to the global pandemic
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Information inför vårterminen 2021
2020-12-01
På grund av pandemiläget kommer undervisningen vid Engelska institutionen under vårterminen 2021 att bedrivas på distans. Information inför kursstart kommer att finnas som vanligt på kurssidorna i Studentportalen och meddelas av lärarna på respektive kurs. Lite praktisk information om hur distansundervisningen kommer att gå till finns här.
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Viktig information om undervisningen hösten 2020
2020-07-28
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Ny doktorsavhandling: Elisabeth Lutteman - Singing, Acting, and Interacting in Early Modern English Drama
2020-05-20
"The study examines ways in which singing figures as a strategy of action and interaction in early modern English drama."
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Pedagogiska priset till Christine Mackay Tircomnicu
2020-05-20
Vi gratulerar vår kollega Christine Mackay Tircomnicu som tilldelats 2020 års fria pedagogiska pris.
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Ny bok - Ailbhe Ó Corráin, Fionntán de Brún & Maxim Fomin (eds.): Scotha cennderca cen on: A Festschrift for Séamus Mac Mathúna
2020-05-15
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Ny bok - Merja Kytö och Erik Smitterberg (red.). Late Modern English: Novel encounters
2020-04-27
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Studievägledning online
2020-04-06
Vi erbjuder studievägledning via webben.
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Ny doktorsavhandling: Erika Berglind Söderqvist. Evidential Marking in Spoken English: Linguistic Functions and Gender Variation
2020-03-26
"This thesis investigates the marking of evidentiality in spoken British English. Evidentiality is the linguistic expression of whether and how a speaker/writer has access to evidence for or against the truth of a proposition, and it is usually manifested in the form of sensory evidentiality [...], hearsay evidentiality [...], or inferential evidentiality [...]. The aims of this thesis are to investigate whether there are quantitative differences between women and men in how often they mark evidentiality, and to analyze the functions of evidentiality in interaction in order to formulate an explanation of any gender differences."
Disputation äger rum den 18 april 2020.
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Institutionens öppethållande
2020-03-04
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Nya mottagningstider för studievägledning
2020-02-12
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Ny Bok - Merja Kytö och Claudia Claridge (red). Punctuation in Context – Past and Present Perspectives
2020-02-06
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Ny bok - Elsa Högberg: Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy
2020-01-21
A "major new contribution to Woolf and modernist studies." – Laura Marcus, Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, UK
A "stunningly insightful and truly timely new work" – Jane Goldman, Reader in English, University of Glasgow, UK
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Ny bok - Ashleigh Harris: Afropolitanism and the Novel: De-realizing Africa
2019-10-28
The place of the novel as a literary form in Africa is contested. Its colonial origins and its unaffordability for most Africans make it a bad fit for the continent, yet it was also central to the creation of most postcolonial African national literary canons. These bipolar traditions remain unresolved in recent debates about Afropolitanism and the novel in Africa today.
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Ny podd: Amerikaanalys
2019-08-23
Nyhetsbruset om USA är ibland öronbedövande. Den nya poddsändningen Amerikaanalys vänder sig till dem som verkligen vill förstå vad som händer, och varför, i amerikansk politik och samhällsutveckling. Här diskuteras ämnen som inte riktig får plats i det vanliga nyhetsflödet. Tillsammans med en USA-baserad journalist pratar forskare från Högskolan i Halmstad och Uppsala universitet på djupet om de komplexa och svåra frågorna.
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Lyssna på fulbrightföreläsningen 2019
2019-04-08
Lyssna till professor Mark S. Weiners Fulbright Lecture med titeln "Understanding Trumpism: American Politics and Culture in an Age of Globalization." Föreläsningen hölls den 28 mars 2019.
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Merja Kytö tilldelas Gustaf Adolf-medaljen
2019-03-15
Professor Merja Kytö belönas för sin framstående forskning i engelskans språkhistoria samt för sina insatser som prefekt för engelska institutionen 2011-2018.
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Rettigska priset till Merja Kytö
2019-03-15
Merja Kytö, professor vid engelska institutionen, tilldelas Kungl. Vitterhetsakademiens Rettigska pris. Hon får priset för sitt innovativa arbete inom syntax, pragmatik och korpuslingvistik på det tidigmoderna och det nyare engelska språkområdet.
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Ny doktorsavhandling: Leonard Driscoll. The Archaeological Encounter in British Fiction, 1880–1940
2019-01-28
"This study examines the representation of archaeological artefacts in the fiction of a diverse body of writers, including Agatha Christie, Mary Butts, and Arthur Conan Doyle, while offering detailed analyses of the presence of archaeology in the works of Thomas Hardy, H. Rider Haggard, and Virginia Woolf."
Disputationen äger rum den 16 februari 2019, kl 10:15 i Geijersalen, Engelska parken.
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Ny licentiatavhandling: Edward Long. For God's Sake: Casual Oaths and Selected Discourse Markers in Early Modern English, 1560-1760
2018-10-19
Licentiatseminarium äger rum den 29/10, 15:15 i rum 7-1013, Engelska Parken
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Temanummer om "literary translingualism"
2018-06-01
Temanummer om "literary translingualism", red. Michael Boyden och Eugenia Kelbert, Journal of World Literature, 3.2 (2018).
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Intervju med gästprofessor N. Katherine Hayles
2018-05-28
Professor N. Katherine Hayles arbetsplats är vanligtvis Duke University, men under perioden 2018-2020 är hon även gästprofessor vid engelska institutionen, Uppsala universitet.
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Ny avhandling: Sarah Schwarz. Passive Voices: BE-, GET- and Prepositional Passives in Recent American English
2018-03-23
The aim of the thesis is to shed light on the use and development of passive voice in American English. Empirical, corpus methods are employed in order to examine the syntactic, semantic, and stylistic preferences of three English passive constructions across time and genre in American English.
Disputation kommer att äga rum den 20 april 2018, kl. 10:15 i Geijersalen, Engelska Parken.
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Ny bok - Elsa Högberg och Amy Bromley (red.): Sentencing Orlando Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence
2018-02-26
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Ny bok - Robert Appelbaum: The Aesthetics of Violence: Art, Fiction, Drama and Film
2018-01-12
Violence at an aesthetic remove from the spectator or reader has been a key element of narrative and visual arts since Greek antiquity. Here Robert Appelbaum explores the nature of mimesis, aggression, the affects of antagonism and victimization and the political uses of art throughout history. He examines how violence in art is formed, contextualised and used by its audiences and readers. Bringing traditional German aesthetic and social theory to bear on the modern problem of violence in art, Appelbaum engages theorists including Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Adorno and Gadamer. The book takes the reader from Homer and Shakespeare to slasher films and performance art, showing how violence becomes at once a language, a motive, and an idea in the experience of art. It addresses the controversies head on, taking a nuanced view of the subject, understanding that art can damage as well as redeem. But it concludes by showing that violence (in the real world) is a necessary condition of art (in the world of mimetic play).
Ort, förlag, år: London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017.
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Ny avhandling: Ryan Palmer, Enchanting Irruptions: Wonder, Noir, and the Environmental Imaginary
2017-12-22
This thesis investigates narratives of re-enchantment and disenchantment in three contemporary U.S. novels, Lydia Millet’s Mermaids in Paradise, Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice.
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“The Imperial Short Story.” Special issue of Nordic Journal of English Studies 16/2 (2017)
2017-10-23
“The Imperial Short Story.” Special issue of Nordic Journal of English Studies 16/2 (2017), edited by Stephen Donovan and Leonard Driscoll.
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Ny avhandling: Göran Rönnerdal. Temporal Subordinators and Clauses in Early Modern English: Stability and Change
2017-08-23
My work is a corpus-based investigation of the use and development of temporal subordinators and clauses in Early Modern British English (EModE). The focus of the project is on the forms, structure, meanings, and history of these subordinators and clauses. My primary aim is to analyse stability and change in temporal subordinators and clauses across the EModE period; second comes the study of linguistic features, such as aspect, tense, mood and modality, ellipsis and non-finite forms, positions, coordination, and subordination of the temporal clauses. In addition, I examine the progress of these subordinators, and WHEN in particular, across text categories, text types, and the sub-periods.
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Ny avhandling: Kristen Rau. From Frontline to Homefront: The Global Homeland in Contemporary U.S. War Fiction
2017-04-10
Criticised for providing a simplified depiction of a post-9/11 United States, contemporary American "war on terror" fiction has been largely neglected by critical discourse. This dissertation argues that this fiction offers a vital engagement with how the War on Terror is waged, and how the fantasies and policies of the Global Homeland inform it.
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Ny avhandling: Henrik Kaatari. Adjectives Complemented by that- and to-clauses: Exploring Semantico-Syntactic Relationships and Genre Variation
2017-02-22
The present compilation thesis investigates adjectives complemented by that- and to-clauses. More specifically, the thesis is concerned with extraposed (e.g. itis likely that she will win and it is important to win) and post-predicate clauses (e.g. I'm sure that he's alive and I'm glad to see you). The thesis s most fundamentally concerned with the study of linguistic variation. Thus the aim of the thesis is to explain why a certain construction is used in a given context.
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Ny bok - The Futures of the Present: New Directions in (American) Literature
2016-12-01
Danuta Fjellestad, David Watson (red.). The Futures of the Present: New Directions in (American) Literature. Routledge.
It has become a critical commonplace that postmodernism no longer serves as an adequate designation for contemporary literature. But what comes after postmodernism? What are the tendencies and directions within contemporary American literature that promise to shape its future?
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Ny avhandling: Tove Larsson. The Introductory it Pattern in Academic Writing by Non-Native-Speaker Students and Published Writers: A Corpus-Based Study
2016-11-23
This compilation thesis investigates the use of a pattern that is commonly found in academic writing, namely the introductory it pattern (e.g. it is interesting to note the difference). The main aim is to shed further light on the formal and functional characteristics of the pattern in academic writing. When relevant, the thesis also investigates functionally related constructions. The focus is on learner use, but reference corpora of published writing and non-native-speaker student writing have also been utilized for comparison. The thesis encompasses an introductory survey (a "kappa") and four articles.
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Ny avhandling: Tasnim Qutait. "The Pathos of Past Time" Nostalgia in Anglo Arab Literature
2016-10-27
This study explores the theme of nostalgia in contemporary Anglo-Arab literature from the 1990s to the present. Examining the implications of nostalgic tropes in Anglophone novels by Arab writers, the study makes the case that nostalgia is a key strategy used by these writers in their critical engagement with national historiographies and diasporic identities.
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Ny bok - The Idiom Principle and L1 Influence
2016-10-14
Ying Wang. The Idiom Principle and L1 Influence: A Contrastive Learner-Corpus Study of Delexical Verb + Noun Collocations. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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Ny bok: A Handbook in Pronunciation
2016-10-06
A Handbook in Pronunciation for Swedish Learners and Teachers av Per Otterstedt. Boken ger en översikt av Engelsk fonetik och fokuserar på områden där svenska studenter vanligtvis stöter på svårigheter.
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Ny bok - Det blågula stjärnbaneret.
2016-03-18
Det blågula stjärnbaneret. USA:s närvaro och inflytande i Sverige. Erik Åsard (red.). Carlssons förlag.
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Ny bok - British Working-Class Fiction
2016-02-09
British Working-Class Fiction: Narratives of Refusal and the Struggle Against Work av Roberto del Valle Alcalá.
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Amerikaanalys
2016-01-29
I bloggen Amerikaanalys ger forskarna Frida Stranne, Dag Blanck och Erik Åsard tillsammans med välkända och meriterade gästbloggare från både Sverige och USA ett brett utbud av perspektiv på presidentvalet i USA och hur det kan förstås.
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Ny bok - Terrorism Before the Letter
2015-11-18
Terrorism Before the Letter: Mythography and Political Violence in England, Scotland, and France 1559-1642 av Robert Appelbaum. Oxford University Press.
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Ny licentiatavhandling i amerikansk litteratur
2015-11-10
Peter Waites: On the Boundaries of Watchmen: Paratextual Narratives across Media. Licentiatseminariet äger rum den 13 november, kl. 10:15 i rum 7-0043, Engelska parken.
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Ny avhandling i amerikansk litteratur
2015-10-21
Gwendolyn Haevens: Mad Pursuits: Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction. Disputationen äger rum 2015-11-14, 10.15 i Geijersalen, Engelska parken, Humanistiskt centrum.