About the Department of Humanities

With over 100 international experts, the Department of Humanities encompasses fields including linguistics, literature and arts, history, philosophy, multilingualism, digital humanities and media studies, and didactics. By integrating cutting-edge approaches into more traditional humanities research domains, we strive to produce critical knowledge on contemporary issues in a changing world. Our multi-faceted research is organised in seven research institutes and the transversal Culture & Computation Lab.

Seven research institutes with an interdisciplinary approach

Multilingualism
conducts research on the challenges of learning and living in linguistically diverse contexts, studying multilingualism in individuals and society and its impact on education and well-being.

Philosophy
focuses on research and teaching is modern and contemporary European philosophy.

Luxembourgish Language and Literature
stands for its pioneering spirit by introducing and implementing new research paradigms and critical lenses for the study of language and literature related topics in Luxembourg and beyond.

History
focuses on four major themes of research: Borders and Identity, Power and Legitimation, History and Space, Materiality and Culture.

English Studies
participate in the multiple dimensions of the field of English Studies in and beyond the Anglophone world and engages with literary and linguistic corpora and culture in English and other languages.

Romance Studies, Media & Arts
provides a laboratory of cultural studies, structured around three major strands: Romance Studies, Media, Art.

German Studies
is dedicated to the German language and its literature from the early Middle Ages to the present, in its entire bandwidth.

A transversal lab for cultural data science

Culture & Computation Lab

The CuCo Lab fosters collaboration among scholars of the Department of Humanities, to promote research in cultural data science as a comprehensive approach to the application of computational methods in the humanities, and to advance the analysis of (digital) culture from a scholarly point of view. In doing so, we are driven by a critical curiosity and open to everyone.

The lab serves four primary functions:

Thematic figurehead: It positions & promotes humanities research at the university in the national and international research landscape.

Project hub: It provides infrastructure, technical and development assistance for projects and researchers in the department.

Training platform: It offers training and teaching in Cultural Data Science and digital methods to scholars and students, and the scientific community beyond the university.

Anchoring point: It functions as a collaboration hub for incoming researchers, societal stakeholders, and industry partners in terms of project development and funding.

Our team

An interface for different
academic cultural traditions

Driven by curiosity, scientific rigor, and social engagement, our researchers are highly regarded experts in their respective fields. We are committed to fostering a community of scholars who work together to address pressing contemporary issues in a changing world.