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

I have been working as an English teacher at Linköping University since 1999. My teaching experience ranges from English grammar, translation and translation theory, literature and cultural studies to language pedagogy, international business English and intercultural communication.

During 2020-2021, I was the head of English at IKOS, and since 2000 I have been responsible for English at the Teachers’ Programme (for secondary and upper-secondary school), an assignment I now share with Nigel Musk.

My research is in the field of Translation Studies. My doctoral dissertation (submitted November 2018) analyzed August Strindberg in censored English translation. Keywords: translation, Strindberg, censorship, Victorian literature, sexuality, polysystem theory, imagology, actor-network theory, sociology.

Publications

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

2021

Lars Liljegren (2021) Forbidden Literature: Case studies on censorship Samlaren, Vol. 142, p. 361-367, Article diva2:1643993

2020

Lars Liljegren (2020) A "Shocking" or a "Moving" Scene?: The Need for a More Critical Approach to Teaching Literature in Translation Educare, Vol. 3, p. 77-108

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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

Head of English at the Department of Culture and Society.

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 Language and Culture research environment

The Language and Culture research environment 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.