Research

How are gender, sexuality and culture shaped and transformed in the Nordic and the arctic regions and beyond?

How do literary texts and other cultural products in a socio-historical context help shape modern Nordic societies?

How can critical engagement with eco-literature strengthen our ability to interpret ecological environments and help us rethink our relationship with nature?

Texts are explored as intersections between the history of their creation and impact, between production and reception.

How does media culture unfold historically and in the current digital landscape, with a focus on, for example, AI, algorithms, television series, and celebrity culture?

How do linguistic factors influence, as well as being influenced by, intra- and interpsychological processes and, consequently, well-being-related challenges?

How does the social world come into being in the interaction between language, body and material surroundings as situated practices?

How can we identify and remedy individuals' communication difficulties, e.g. following brain damage or voice disorders?

How can we understand language structures in terms of their communicative functions and cognitive prerequisites?

What role does language play in social group formation, and how do social categories and processes influence language?

The focus is on linguistic developments and the histories and cultural contexts of individual languages and language families.

How can statistical language models be enriched with linguistic knowledge, cognitive signals, visual images and gestures?

We clarify variations in form and content within the Nordic dialect continuum.

We work with the entire spectrum of Norse studies, from manuscript research, linguistic variation and cultural history to Norse literature and mythology.