Research on literature in the Hispanic World at Stockholm University is carried out over a broad range of topics, with particular focus on Golden Age writing as well as modern literature from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but also further back in time to Spanish medieval literature from the thiteenth to the fifteenth centuries.
We study Spanish-language literature from a broad socio-cultural context, whereby literary creation, understood within the society and culture in which it originated, has a critical role in understanding the nature of that historical, societal and cultural background. The fundamental concept of the Baroque - in both its Early Modern and more modern literary guises - is a central research topic.
Our research, more broadly speaking, examines literature and power; literature and the environment; the teaching of literature; literature, memory and identity; and how literature in Spanish has developed within the over-arching field of world literatures. For the study of Spanish medieval literature from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, there is futher information under Spanish philology.