What will the module be about?

Memory is increasingly being recognized as fundamental to the formation of individual and collective identities. This module aims to investigate the role of memory in an age of globalisation powered by new communication technologies, with examples drawn from literature, film and digital media. Central questions to be investigated are: in which ways does globalisation challenge the content and function of collective memory, and how do new media co-operate with literature in shaping memories and identities? Semprún’s novel The Long Voyage (1963), González Iñárritu’s film Babel (2006), the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893) or materials of a similar nature will be studied.

Welcome to our blog

This blog is created in connection with the 2009 MA module Memory and Literature in a Globalised Culture at UCL and AU. We (Svend Erik Larsen, AU, and Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, UCL) will be blogging about our thoughts for the module and other related issues in the time leading up to its commencement. We invite everybody interested to contribute with observations, insights and ideas. Visit and get to learn our partner departments by following the links in the left phrame of the this blog.