Welcome

Welcome to the K.U.Leuven Department of Literature.

Our chief aim is to achieve excellence in both teaching and research in all periods of Western literature.
We offer a wide range of lectures and seminars to students pursuing degrees in Germanic, Romance or Classical languages and literatures at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Our research converges on four main areas: literary institutionalization, canonization and genre; literary historiography, literary theory and translation studies; intertextuality and medium theory; and hermeneutics, both traditional and post-structuralist, including text edition.

The Department is organized into five research units: Text and interpretation, Literary relations and postnational identities, Literature and culture, Dutch Literature, and Latin Literature.