Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
I am a University Lecturer in the Department of Languages (English Philology) at the University of Helsinki. I am also a Docent in Literary Studies, with a Special Emphasis in Narrative Theory, at the University of Tampere. Previously, I was an Academy of Finland postdoctoral research fellow. You can read a brief summary of the research that I conducted for that project below ("Latest Projects"), or a more detailed description on my website:
http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/sklar/index_files/Page346.htm
Fields of Science
- 6122 Literature studies
- Disability Studies
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“What’s the Matter with Him?”: Intellectual Disability, Jewishness, and Stereotype in Bernard Malamud’s “Idiots First”
Sklar, H. G., 2020, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability. Hall, A. (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 142-155 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Mimetic and Synthetic Views of Characters: How Readers Process “People” in Fiction
Polvinen, M. & Sklar, H., 2019, In: Cogent Arts & Humanities. 6, 15 p., 1687257.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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The Social Meaning of Mental Retardation: Two Life Stories (1982) by Robert Bogdan and Steven J. Taylor
Sklar, H. G., 2019, Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives. Couser, G. T. & Mintz, S. B. (eds.). New York: Macmillan Reference USA, Vol. 2. p. 702-705 4 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Failure of Catharsis. The Reconstruction of Joseph’s Moral Intent in Two Post-Biblical Narratives
Sklar, H. G., 2018, In: Diegesis: Interdisziplinäres E-Journal für Erzählforschung. 7, 2, p. 111-138 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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“Memoir” as Counter-Narrative: Reimagining the Self in Roth’s The Plot Against America
Sklar, H. G., 2018, In: Akademisk kvarter. 17, p. 23-36 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Projects
- 2 Finished
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Tunne ja tieto
Lyytikäinen, P., Rossi, R., Salmela, M., Pyrhönen, H., Vanhanen, T. E., Tepora, T., Voutilainen, L., Palmén, R., Sklar, H. & Polvinen, M.
01/01/2015 → 31/12/2016
Project: Other project
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Stories of the 'Intellectually Disabled': An Investigation of Narratives Representing the Intellectually Disabled and Their Effects on Non-Disabled Adolescent Readers
01/09/2011 → 31/08/2014
Project: Research project
Prizes
Activities
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How to increase information on disability inclusion in study materials and education?
Hisayo Katsui (Speaker: Chair), Tom Böhling (Speaker: Presenter), Edwin Abuya (Speaker: Keynote), Howard Sklar (Speaker: Presenter), Ira Kolkkinen (Speaker: Presenter), Peppi Santanen (Speaker: Presenter) & Johanna Mikkonen (Speaker: Presenter)
7 Oct 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Talks
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Retelling as Interpretation: Midrashic Narrative Expansion in the Medieval Spanish Poem “Las Coplas de Yosef”
Howard Sklar (Speaker)
30 May 2019 → 1 Jun 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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“The Wandering Jew” as Religious and Racial Other in Pär Lagerkvist’s Sibyllan and Ahasverus död
Howard Sklar (Speaker)
27 Aug 2019 → 28 Aug 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Norm and Deviance in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and Autobiography
Howard Sklar (Supervisor)
2018Activity: Examination types › Pre-examiner of doctoral thesis
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“…and no one goes back unscathed to his God” Narrative, Ethics and the Poetic Rendering of the Holocaust in the Work of Nelly Sachs
Howard Sklar (Speaker)
2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation