Literature and the Making of the World: Cosmopolitan Texts, Vernacular Practices (Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Stefan Helgesson is Professor of English literary studies at Stockholm University, Sweden, and a senior research associate at Rhodes University, South Africa. He is the co-author (with Mads Rosendahl Thomsen) of Literature and the World (2020) and the co-editor (with Pieter Vermeulen) of Institutions of World Literature (2016). He currently leads the Swedish research initiative "Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures."

Helena Bodin is Professor of Literature in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research concerns the functions of literature at the boundaries between languages, nations, arts, and media. In particular, she has studied modern literature's engagement with the Byzantine Orthodox Christian tradition. Bodin currently works on matters relating to literary multilingualism and multiscriptalism.

Annika Mörte Alling is Associate Professor of French Literature at Østfold University College, Norway, previously at Lund University, Sweden. Research interests include the French nineteenth-century novel (e.g. Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert), the role and function of literature, the translation and reception of nineteenth-century French literature in Scandinavia, the role of emotions in literature teaching, space/place in literature.