Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
I am a literary scholar working in the intersections of narrative theory, feminist/queer/crip theory, embodied cognitive science, and medical humanities. My publications and teaching deal with the affective, embodied, and political dimensions of reading and representations of pain, illness, and disability in literature. I have written, for example, about psychosis, depression, and trauma in first-person narratives; close reading as an embodied and critical practice; languages of pain; political emotions; and Finnish and Anglophone modernist and contemporary fiction.
Fields of Science
- 6122 Literature studies
- Modernism
- Cognitive narratology
- Finnish Literature
- Comparative literary studies
- Medical Humanities
- Gender studies
- Embodied Cognition
- 611 Philosophy
- Philosophy of psychiatry
- Philosophy of psychiatric disorders
- Ethics and Political Philosophy
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4E-Mielenfilosofia
Telakivi, P., Ovaska, A. & Oulanne, L.-A., Oct 2025, In: Logos ensyklopedia.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › peer-review
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Introduction: Applied Narratology
Moenandar, S.-J., Karttunen, L. & Ovaska, A., 6 Dec 2024, In: Narrative Inquiry. 34, 2, p. 233-239 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Scientific
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Omituinen teksti ja ruumiillinen mieli: Enaktiivisesta kirjallisuudentutkimuksesta
Polvinen, M., Ovaska, A. & Kortekallio, K., Dec 2024, In: Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen Aikakauslehti Avain. 21, 4, p. 84-91 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific
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Toward engaged narratology
Ovaska, A., Dec 2024, In: Narrative Inquiry. 34, 2, p. 262-280 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Shattering Minds: Experiences of Mental Illness in Modernist Finnish Literature
Ovaska, A., 16 Aug 2023, Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. 261 p. (Studia Fennica Litteraria; no. 13)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
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Projects
- 2 Finished
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ERE: Enhancing and Reassessing Enactivism
Tirkkonen, S. (Principal Investigator), Telakivi, P. (Participant), Polvinen, M. (Participant), Kortekallio, K. (Participant), Suoranta, E. (Participant), Ovaska, A. (Participant), Oulanne, L.-A. (Participant), Varis, E. E. (Participant), Rossi, R. (Participant), Roine, H.-R. (Participant) & Lehtinen, S. (Participant)
15/11/2023 → 30/11/2024
Project: Other project
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European PhDnet Literary and Cultural Studies
Ovaska, A. (Participant)
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2016
Project: Research project
Activities
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Think Corner Panel with Alva Noë, Shaun Gallagher, Marya Schechtman, and Sara Heinämaa. MIND, BODY, AND TECHNOLOGY: THE BIG UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
Telakivi, P. (Chair of organizing committee), Tirkkonen, S. (Chair of organizing committee), Polvinen, M. (Chair), Suoranta, E. (Member of organizing committee) & Ovaska, A. (Member of organizing committee)
5 Sept 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Symposium ja kirjanjulkaisu: Laajentuneet ja särkyneet mielet
Telakivi, P. (Chair of organizing committee) & Ovaska, A. (Chair of organizing committee)
20 Sept 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Narrative 2020
Ovaska, A. (Speaker: Presenter)
4 Mar 2020 → 7 Apr 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Uses and Abuses of Storytelling
Ovaska, A. (Speaker: Presenter)
15 Feb 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Trauma, dissociation and self-other boundaries
Ovaska, A. (Speaker: Presenter)
26 Sept 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars