SALIS - Research in SALIS
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Intercultural and Literary Studies
SALIS Newsletter November 2007 (PDF 205K)
Meet our Intercultural and Literary Studies Team
Research areas and activities in the Intercultural and Literary Studies Section (ISS)
Intercultural studies is a fast-growing area of academic investigation. Its central focus is what happens when different cultures come into contact. Increased interaction across national boundaries (globalisation) is a major factor in the development of the discipline.
Please find brochures describing our Taught Postgraduate courses in Intercultural Studies, Comparative Literature and Sexuality Studies (for full course content please view the links at the bottom of the page)
Intercultural Studies at DCU is interdisciplinary in approach. Most of the staff come from a background in languages, literature and culture, but draw increasingly on a wider range of disciplines, such as anthropology, sociology and social psychology, political and social philosophy. We work in English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish, so our approach has a strong comparative and multilingual dimension. At the same time, the recent diversification of Irish society means that questions of intercultural contact now also arise within the country, and we are active in this area.
We currently have several PhD students working on topics as varied as the Hungarian community in Ireland, the intercultural campus, Polish women in the Irish workforce, Women Literature under Franco's Spain and gender and sexuality issues in the nursing environment. We welcome enquiries from potential research students in the following areas:
- Comparative literature
- Artistic/textual representations of intercultural contact
- Borrowings and influence between cultures and across artistic forms
- The literature, society and culture of the French-, German- and Spanish-speaking worlds, and of Japan
- Multicultural Ireland
- Diversity in the workplace
- Intercultural education and training
- Discrimination, racism and public policy
- Cultural identity in modernity: evolving representations of national (and other) identities, of self and other
- Internationalisation and European cultural integration; citizenship and multiculturalism
- Intercultural communication
- World English and Englishes
- Interculturalism and language-learning
- Cultural, intercultural and multicultural theory and philosophy
- Sexuality Studies (Gender Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Masculinity Studies, Women Studies,)
Intercultural Studies forms one strand of our core undergraduate degree:
http://www.dcu.ie/prospective/deginfo.php?classname=ALIS&originating_school=61
We also offer three taught MA programmes:
In Intercultural Studies:
http://www.dcu.ie/prospective/deginfo.php?classname=MAIS&originating_school=61
In Comparative Literature:
http://www.dcu.ie/prospective/deginfo.php?classname=MACL&originating_school=61
In Sexuality Studies:
http://www.dcu.ie/prospective/deginfo.php?classname=MASS&originating_school=61
Dublin City University and SALIS are promoting and leading the European Intercultural Workplace (EIW) Project (2004 - 7), funded by the EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme II. This pioneering international research project explores the implications of cultural diversity at work. It highlights key issues for managers, employees and customers from host and foreign cultures in public, private and education sectors.