Curriculum vitae

My current project (2024-2028) explores therapeutic polarization through an ethnographic study of the contemporary onto-politics of contested/functional disorders.

My previous postdoc project (2020-2023, Academy of Finland) centered on biohacking, with an emphasis on cold exposure and medicinal mushrooms, as an emerging mode of techno-asceticism (in the sense of "self-improvement") situated at the intersection between data-driven self-tracking and alternative health.

My doctoral dissertation 'Intimately Allegorical: The Poetics of Self-Mediation in Stand-Up Comedy' (2019, University of Turku) deals with stand-up comedy as a performance of self-presentation and an economy of relatability.

My texts have been published in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Body & Society, Signs and Society, Ethnologia Europaea, and Cultural Analysis.

I was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2023).

I am the editorial secretary of Lähikuva (https://journal.fi/lahikuva/).

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