World Literatures

Stefan Helgesson is Professor of English at Stockholm University and the principal investigator of the cosmpolitan-vernacular research programme. His research interests include southern African literature in English and Portuguese, Brazilian literature, postcolonial theory, translation theory and theories of world literature. He is the author of Writing in Crisis: Ethics and History in Gordimer, Ndebele and Coetzee (2004) and Transnationalism in Southern African Literature (2009), and is co-editor (with Pieter Vermeulen) of Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets (2015). He has published widely in journals such as PMLA, History and Theory, Research in African Literatures, Interventions and Translation Studies.

Annika Mörte Alling is Associate Professor of French literature at Lund University. Most of her publications have dealt with the nineteenth-century French novel, from various angles: the translation and reception of French literature in Sweden in the nineteenth century, the “Bovarysm” of Jules de Gaultier in novels by Stendhal and Flaubert, the problem of endings and closures in Balzac, mimetic desire in Stendhal (doctoral thesis, 2003). Currently, she has two main areas of research: firstly, the dynamics between the vernacular and the cosmopolitan in the nineteenth-century French novel; secondly, the role of emotion in literature teaching.

Yvonne Lindqvist is Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies, and Deputy Director of the Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies at the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University. Her current research within the Sociology of Translation and World Literature studies multidirectional cosmopolitanising and vernacularising translation dynamics and translation as a social practice.

Helena Wulff is Professor of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. Her research is in the anthropology of communication and aesthetics, based on a wide range of studies of the social worlds of literary production, dance and visual culture, currently on migrant writing in Sweden as world literature. Among her publications are the monographs Ballet across Borders: Career and Culture in the World of Dancers (1998), Dancing at the Crossroads: Memory and Mobility in Ireland (2007) and Rhythms of Writing: An Anthropology of Irish Literature (2017), and the edited volume The Anthropologist as Writer: Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century (2016).