Research is a core component of the mission of Queen’s University. A member of the U15, a group of Canada’s leading research-intensive universities, Queen’s ranks highly in terms of research funding and research intensity amongst universities nationally. The LLCU’s breadth and diversity in research includes Linguistics and Hispanic, Italian, German, Spanish and Indigenous languages, literatures and cultures. Furthermore, our faculty tackle international social concerns from diverse cultural angles.
Dr. Christiane Arndt
19th century literature and culture, material culture and literature, photography (and/in literature), Medical Humanities.
Dr. Jennifer Ruth Hosek
Transnational 20th - 21st century German culture (Cuba); European Union cultures; film; critical mobility cultures.
Hannah McElgunn
Semiotics; intertextuality; information circulation and sovereignty; Indigenous linguistic and cultural reclamation; functional approaches to grammar and discourse.
Dr. Claudio Palomares-Salas
Hispanic Avant-Garde Movements; Spatiality & Literary Geography; Twentieth-Century Latin American and Spanish Literature.
Dr. Donato Santeramo
20th-century Italian theatre and literature, literary studies, semiotics.
