Specializing in word-and-music studies and comparative perspectives, Professor Englund has worked on authors from various literary traditions – from Rainer Maria Rilke and Marcel Proust to W.G. Sebald and J.M. Coetzee – as well as on musical settings of modernist poetry and contemporary opera staging. His articles have appeared in German Quarterly, German Life and Letters, Mosaic, and Perspectives of New Music, as well as in numerous anthologies. He is the author of Still Songs: Music In and Around the Poetry of Paul Celan.