The Institute of Literature and New Media was established within the new structure of the University of Szczecin on 01.10.2019. The Institute employs academic staff from the discipline of literature studies, conducting their acadmic activites before 01.10.2019 at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Szczecin, which consisted of Institute of Polish Studies and Cultural Studies, Institute of German Studies, Institute of English Studies, Institute of Slavic Studies, Department of Romance Studies, Department of Iberian Studies and Department of Scandinavian Studies.
The Institute conducts research in the following areas:
- comparative and translation studies;
- regionalism, including regional literature and media, and culture of Western Pomerania;
- contemporary literature in the world;
- popular culture and media, including new media;
- old Polish and religious literature;
- identity policies in literature and culture;
- interculturality and transculturality
- history of theatre and drama;
- autobiography, biography and diaristics