Lars Liljegren

Associate Professor

I have been teaching English at Linköping University since 1999. I am also involved with teacher education. My field of research is primarily Translation Studies, I focus on censorship and forbidden words, and how translators deal with these.

Translation, Grammar, Literature, Culture and Teacher Education

My research explores topics such as translation, grammar, Strindberg, censorship, Victorian literature, sexuality, polysystem theory, imagology, sociology and racism.

I have been working as a teacher of English at Linköping University since 1999. My teaching experience spans from English grammar, translation and translation studies, literature and cultural studies to language pedagogy, International Business English, intercultural communication, etc.

During 2020 and 2021, I was Director of Studies for English at IKOS (the Department of Culture and Society), and since the year 2000, I have been in charge of English at the Subject Teachers' Programme, a responsibility I now share with Silvia Kunitz.

My research is mainly within the field of Translation Studies. My PhD (defended in November 2018) analysed August Strindberg in censored English translation, and recently, I have primarily done research on how the language of racism has been translated into Swedish.

Publications

2026

Lars Liljegren, Sally Bamber, Martin Matthews, Allan Owens, Emma Arya-Manesh (2026)

Learning to Teach Through Storytelling Across Physical and Cultural Boundaries Critical Learning Through Creative Research Practices, p. 97-115 (Chapter in book)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05412-8_7

2022

Lars Liljegren (2022)

The Intended Reader and the Translator's Capital. Cultural and Social Sensitivity When Translating "the N-word" in Huckleberry Finn Samlaren: tidskrift för svensk litteraturvetenskaplig forskning, Vol. 143, p. 204-244 (Article in journal)

2021

Lars Liljegren (2021)

Forbidden Literature: Case studies on censorship Samlaren, Vol. 142, p. 361-367, Article diva2:1643993 (Article, book review)

CV

Academic degrees

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (2018)

Master of Arts English, Linköping University (2004)

Master of Education for the Upper Secondary School, Linköping University (1990)

Positions

Lecturer in English.

Research

Le mur des je t'aime. Place des Abbesses, Paris. By Britchi Mirela [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons.

The Research Environment Language and Culture

The Research Environment Language and Culture is a meeting place for linguistic and literary research in a cultural context.

Organisation

Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)

At the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), social sciences and the humanities gather in environments where research and education work together.

Division of Language, Culture and Interaction (SKI)

The department includes professional languages, English as well as research and teaching in the field of interaction studies.