Ons onderzoek bestudeert literaire teksten uit alle periodes van de klassieke oudheid tot vandaag: 

• Literature from Antiquity
• Literature from Late Antiquity
• Medieval literature
• Early modern literature
• 19th century literature
• 20th century literature
• Contemporary literature

Methodologische en inhoudelijke zwaartepunten omvatten, onder meer:

• Book history
• Comics / graphic novels
• Cultural memory
• Digital humanities
• Diversity and Gender
• Ecocriticism
• Genetic criticism
• Genre studies
• Health and Medical Humanities
• Identity
• Interculturality
• Literary history
• Literary sociology
• Literary translation
• Narratology
• Periodical studies
• Poetics
• Postcolonial Studies
• Rhetoric