Liviu Lutas is a professor in French literature. He teaches French literature and translation theory. Liviu Lutas is conducting his research in the fields of French literature from the Caribbean, literary theory, literary didactics, narratology and intermediality. He has been working with a project, financed by the Swedish National Bank, about the narrative metalepsis. Lutas is doing the main part of his research now in the framework of Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, where he analyses literary narrative devices from a transmedial perspective.
Teaching
I teach French literature at all levels, and translation within the framework of the translation programme.
Research
My research is mainly contucted within the framework of Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies. I am involved in several projects in that group.
NARRATION AND INTERMEDIALITY
On the basis of narrative and intermedial theories, I examine, individually or together with my colleagues from the research centre, the transmedial potential of narration, ie how narration can appear in different media. Since I have my background in literarary studies, I examine most closely narrative devices as coined in literary theory and their possible appearance in other media.
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN EASTERN EUROPEAN FILM
In collaboration with Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, I examine new developments in Eastern European film, especially what has come to be called New Romanian Cinema. I apply our group's intermedial perspective on that film production together with other research perspectives.
INTERMEDIAL ECOCRITICISM
Together with several researchers from our research centre I combine insights from intermedial research with climate research and ecocriticism, and examine the transformation of scientific material about what has been called the Anthropocene Period (the man influenced geological period) into aesthetic media.
Commissions
I am the president of the research supervisors' committee (Handledarkollegiet)
My ongoing research projects
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Project: Communication across Media Borders: The Limitations and Possibilities of Transmediation The project investigates how meaning is changed – corrupted or enhanced – when travelling among…
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Project: Intermedial Ecocriticism: Transmediating the Anthropocene This project responds from a humanities perspective to an urgent societal challenge: how can the Anthropocene ecological crisis be…
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Project: Intermediality in the Romanian New Wave in Cinema The Romanian New Wave in Cinema consists of a number of films from 2001 onwards, forming a specific genre, whose main characteristics are raw…
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Project: New Developments in Eastern European Film This project examines new developments in Eastern European film, especially what has come to be called New Romanian Cinema.
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Lutas, L. (2023). Narratology and Intermediality : Testing Elleström’s concept of “Transmedial Narration”. Ekphrasis. 30 (2). 14-30.
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Lutas, L., Pop, D. (2023). Standing at the Media Borders, Crossing Over Conceptual Boundaries. Ekphrasis : Images, Cinema, Theory, Media. 291 (1). 5-11.
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Lutas, L. (2021). Literatura y pintura. Un ejemplo de análisis intermedial : [Literature and painting. An example of intermedial analysis]. Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature. 14 (1). 1-16.
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Lutas, L. (2020). Friends or Foes – Representations of the Relationship between Man and Nature in Three Different Media Types : Literature, Live Action Film and Animated Film. Ekphrasis : Images, Cinema, Theory, Media. 24 (2). 243-262.
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Lutas, L. (2019). Voice, Focalization, and Disembodiment in P. C. Jersild and C. F. Ramuz. Narrative (Columbus, Ohio). 27 (3). 290-312.
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Lutas, L. (2018). L'intermédialité comme méthode d'analyse textuelle : L'exemple de Patrick Chamoiseau. Orbis Litterarum. 73 (1). 80-100.
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Lutas, L. (2017). Mircea Cartarescu en suédois : Entre sourcisme et ciblisme. Orbis Litterarum. 72 (1). 51-87.
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Lutas, L. (2017). Réalisme magique ou fantastique ? : Stratégies narratives dans la réappropriation des traumatismes historiques. Moderna Språk. 111 (1). 59-82.
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Lutas, L. (2017). Transmediation or Media Representation? : Media Transformation in Recent Eastern European Films. Ekphrasis : Images, Cinema, Theory, Media. 18 (2). 47-61.
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Lutas, L. (2015). Paradoja y metalepsis narrativa en el cuento“El otro”, de Jorge Luis Borges. Tópicos del Seminario : Revista de Semiótica. (34). 131-153.
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Lutas, L. (2015). Weirdness, Feel-Bad and New Extremity in Contemporary European Film : the Examples of Greece, Austria, France and Romania. Ekphrasis : Images, Cinema, Theory, Media. 14 (2). 88-102.
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Lutas, L. (2015). Metalepsis and the Past in Fiction : A Study Based on Francophone Literature. Metacritic journal for comparative studies and theory. 1 (1). 13-35.
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Cariboni Killander, C., Lutas, L., Strukelj, A. (2014). A New Look on Ekphrasis : an Eye-tracking Experiment on a Cinematic Example. Ekphrasis : Images, Cinema, Theory, Media. 12 (2). 10-31.
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Gobyn, S., Lutas, L. (2013). Metalepsis Out of Bounds. Enthymema. (9). 157-162.
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Lutas, L. (2013). Adaptation as a Means of Reflecting upon Immersivity and Self-Referentiality. Ekphrasis : Images, Cinema, Theory, Media. 10 (2). 110-124.
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Lutas, L. (2012). Ceaușescu och litteraturen : Mellan antisovjetism och personkult. Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. 114 (3). 385-399.
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Lutas, L. (2012). Les technologies de l’information et de la communication dans l’enseignement de la littérature : l’exemple d’un lycée suédois. Meridian Critic. 18 (1). 75-90.
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Lutas, L. (2012). Sur la syllepse narrative : Un concept théorique négligé. Poétique - Revue de Theorie et d'Analyse Litteraires. 168. 445-466.
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Lutas, L. (2009). Dos ejemplos de metalepsis narrativas: Niebla de Miguel de Unamuno y Biblique des derniers gestes de Patrick Chamoiseau. Moderna Språk. 103 (2). 39-59.
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Lutas, L. (2004). Fantastique contemporain aux Antilles : L’exemple de Patrick Chamoiseau. IRIS / Les cahiers du Gerf. (26). 101-112.
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Conference paper (Refereed)
- Lutas, L. (2024). Ekphrasis at the crossroads of dichotomies – Problematizing through empirical evidence. .
- Lutas, L. (2024). Adaptation in Teaching Literature. ICERI2024, Proceedings 17th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. 4838-4847.
- Lutas, L. (2023). Inbjuden talare i rundabordssamtal. .
- Lutas, L. (2023). Teaching French Literature Online: Challenges Caused by the Move from Face-to-Face to Remote Learning. EDULEARN23 Proceedings 15th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Palma, Spain. 438-445.
- Lutas, L. (2022). The Study of Intermedial Features in Literature. ICERI2022 Proceedings from the 15th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Seville (Spain). 3616-3622.
- Lutas, L. (2018). Media Transformation in Recent British Cinema : Biblical Motifs in Peter Greenaway’s Goltzius and the Pelican Company and Shane Meadows’s Dead Man’s Shoes”. Symbiotic Cinema : Confluences between Film and Other Media.
- Lutas, L. (2018). Representations of the Anthropocene in Narratives for Children. 2018 International Conference on Narrative : April 18 - 22, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Lutas, L. (2017). L’emploi de l’iconicité dans les œuvres de Juan García Ponce et de Marie Ndiaye. 20th Nordic Romanist Conference : Book of Abstracts : ROM17, University of Bergen, Department of Foreign Languages, August 15-18, 2017. 72-72.
- Egerland, V., Forsberg Lundell, F., Lutas, L., Sundell, L. (2017). Romanska språk som akademisk disciplin. Romanska språk i Sverige - tradition och förnyelse, 20-21 april 2017, Göteborgs universitet.
- Lutas, L. (2017). The Anthropocene in School and in Family Films. Presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Media : Living in the Anthropocene. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts March 15-17, 2017.
- Lutas, L. (2016). Collaborating over the Frontiers : Reflections on a French Course Given in Collaboration between Schools in Sweden and France. ICERI2016 Proceedings : 9th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. Seville, 14th, 15th and 16th of November, 2016. 6192-6200.
- Lutas, L. (2016). Minimalism in Romanian New Wave Cinema : The Example of Cristi Puiu. .
- Lutas, L. (2016). Children’s Films as Transmediations of the Anthropocene. Transmediatons! Communications across Media Borders : Abstracts. Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, October 13-15, 2016. 72-73.
- Lutas, L. (2016). The Transmediality of Minimalism : The Example of Romanian New Wave Cinema. .
- Lutas, L. (2015). Animation and Live Action : an Intermedial Encounter and its Implications. Narrative 2015, 5-8 March, Swissôtel Chicago.
- Lutas, L. (2015). Stylization versus Reality : Examples of Encounters between Animation and Live Action. .
- Lutas, L. (2015). Weirdness, Feel-bad and New Extremism in Contemporary Greek, Austrian, Romanian and French Film. .
- Lutas, L. (2015). Intermediality in French Literature from the West Indies – The Example of Patrick Chamoiseau. Concurrences in postcolonial research – perspectives, methodologies, engagements, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, August 20-23 2015.
- Lutas, L. (2015). Metalepsis and its effects on the recipient. Modelling Narrative Across Borders”, 4th Conference of the European Narratology Network, Ghent 14-16 April 2015. 49-50.
- Lutas, L. (2014). Intermediality in the Weird Wave in Greek Cinema. .
- Lutas, L. (2014). Who Is "the Other"? : Paradoxical Encounter or Ambiguous Enunciation in "El Otro". International Conference on Narrative: MIT, Cambridge, March 27-29 2014.
- Lutas, L. (2014). Producing Knowledge by Relating Form and Meaning : Intermedial Relations in the Narratives of Juan García Ponce and Marie Ndiaye. .
- Lutas, L. (2014). The Body as a Parchment in Literature, Cinema and Painting. Bodies in Between: Corporeality and Visuality from Historical Avant-garde to Social Media Conference, 29-31 May 2014.
- Lutas, L. (2013). Nya metoder och gamla begrepp – Hur eye-tracking-tekniken kan användas inom intermediala studier. .
- Lutas, L. (2013). Using the Bible to Highlight Materiality : the Case of Peter Greenaway’s Film Goltzius and the Pelican Company. .
- Lutas, L. (2013). Virtual Worlds and Paradoxical Narration : a Transmedial Perspective on Classification Aspects. Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds, Tammerfors, 21-22 maj 2013.
- Lutas, L. (2013). A Three-Fold Adaptation : the Old Testament in Peter Greenaway’s Film Goltzius and the Pelican Company. .
- Cariboni Killander, C., Lutas, L. (2013). Questioning ekphrasis by using eye-tracking technique. .
- Lutas, L. (2013). Metalepsis and History : The Example of Three Francophone Writers. The 3rd ENN Conference, EmergingVectors of Narratology : Toward Consolidation orDiversification?, Paris,29-30 mars 2013. 59.
- Cariboni Killander, C., Lutas, L. (2013). Cinematic Ekphrasis and its Narrative Implications. Emerging Vectors of Narratology: Toward Consolidation or Diversification?,Paris, 29-30 mars 2013.
- Lutas, L. (2013). La metalepsis narrativa – consideraciones alrededor de las clasificaciones. Tercer congreso internacional de investigaciones literarias,19-21 juni 2013, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexiko.
- Lutas, L. (2012). La syllepse narrative vue dans une perspective didactique. Actes du XVIIIe congrès des romanistes scandinaves / Actas del XVIII congreso de romanistas escandinavos. 494-502.
- Lutas, L. (2012). Metalepsis and Participation in Games of Make-Believe. Howto Make Believe. The Fictional Truths of the Representational Arts, iLund, Språk- och litteraturcentrum, 15 mars – 17 mars 2012.
- Lutas, L. (2012). Mircea Cărtarescu en suédois – naturalisation ou exotisation? : un exemple de traduction et de réception de la littérature roumaine en Suède. International Conference on Romance Languages – In Memoriam Alf Lombard, Lund University, The Pufendorf Institute, 7-8 november 2012..
- Lutas, L. (2011). Teaching Narratology Using Framebreaking Devices. Teaching Narrative and Teaching through Narrative i Tammerfors, Finland, 25 maj – 28 maj 2011.
- Lutas, L. (2011). Literary Theory in Swedish Upper Secondary School : Classroom Examples. Proceedings from the 4th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. 5533-5542.
- Lutas, L. (2011). Narratology in Classroom : Using Narrative Metalepsis in Teaching Literature at Upper Secondary Level. Critical Discourse and Linguistic Variation: New Investigation Perspectives : Receptions, Analyses, Openings : September 8-9, 2010, Suceava, România. 161-164.
- Lutas, L. (2011). Literature, ICT and Globalization : Using Glogster in Teaching Francophone Literature. Proceedings from the 4th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, International Association for Technology, Education and Development(IATED), Madrid. 5523-5532.
- Lutas, L. (2005). Fantastique et Histoire chez Patrick Chamoiseau. XVIe Congrès des Romanistes Scandinaves, Institut for Sprog og Kultur, Roskilde, augusti 2005. 1-15.
Chapter in book (Refereed)
- Lutas, L. (2024). The Narrator : A Transmedial Device. The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality. Palgrave Macmillan. 391-413.
- Lutas, L. (2023). The Narrator : A Transmedial Device. The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality. Palgrave Macmillan. 1-23.
- Bruhn, J., Lutas, L., Salmose, N., Schirrmacher, B. (2022). Media Representation : Film, Music and Painting in Literature. Intermedial Studies : An Introduction to Meaning Across Media. Routledge. 162-193.
- Lutas, L. (2020). Metalepsis in Different Media. Beyond Media Borders, Volume 2 : Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media. Cham, Palgrave Macmillan. 149-173.
- Lutas, L. (2019). Remediation and Minimalism in New Romanian Cinema : The Example of Cristi Puiu. The New Romanian Cinema. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press. 107-120.
- Lutas, L. (2015). La actualidad del cuento "El café" cincuenta años después : Un punto de vista intermedial. Homenaje a Juan García Ponce : Imagen primera y La noche cincuenta años después. Veracruz, Universidad de Veracruz. 61-86.
- Lutas, L. (2015). Metalepsis and Participation in Games of Make-Believe. How to Make Believe : The Fictional Truths of the Representational Arts. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter. 203-222.
- Lutas, L. (2015). Storyworlds and Paradoxical Narration : Putting Classifications to a Transmedial Test. Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media : Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds. New York and London, Routledge. 29-49.
- Lutas, L. (2014). Teori i litteraturundervisning på gymnasiet – tre klassrumsexempel. Vetenskapliga perspektiv på lärande, undervisning och utbildning i olika institutionella sammanhang : utbildningsvetenskaplig forskning vid Lunds universitet. Lund, Lund University Open Access. 127-143.
- Lutas, L. (2011). Narrative Metalepsis in Detective Fiction. Metalepsis in Popular Culture. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter. 41-64.
Collection (editor) (Refereed)
- Pop, D., Lutas, L. (2023). Crossing Media Borders Once Again. Multimodalities in Contemporary Cinema and Visual Culture. Cluj-Napoca, Universitatea Babes-Bolyai. 117.
- Bruhn, J., Lutas, L. (2020). Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media : Vol. 24, Issue 2/2020, The Anthropocene and Intermedial Ecocriticism. Universitatea Babes-Bolyai. 63.
- Chinita, F., Lutas, L. (2019). Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media. Vol. 22, Issue 2/2019 : Crossing Narrative Boundaries between Cinema and Other Media. Universitatea Babes-Bolyai. 189.
- Bruhn, J., Löwe, C., Lutas, L., Rossholm, A.S., Salmose, N., et al. (2016). Ekfrase : Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. Bergen, Universitetsforlaget. 100.
Article in journal (Other academic)
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Chinita, F., Lutas, L. (2019). Foreword. Ekphrasis : Images, Cinema, Theory, Media. 22 (2). 5-5.
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Lutas, L. (2011). « Paradoxalt berättande » i litteraturundervisning på gymnasiet. Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. 41 (3-4). 131-144.
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Conference paper (Other academic)
- Lutas, L. (2014). Breaking the Bodily Limits of the Enunciator : Metalepsis in Jersild, Ndiaye and Ramuz. .
- Lutas, L. (2014). Aspects intermédiaux dans l'oeuvre de Patrick Chamoiseau. Patrick Chamoiseau.
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Lutas, L. (2008). Biblique des derniers gestes de Patrick Chamoiseau : Fantastique et Histoire. Doctoral Thesis. Lund, Språk- och litteraturvetenskapligt centrum, Lunds universitet. 235.