Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
Kati Kallio is an Academy Research Fellow specialising in Kalevalaic oral poetry and historical oral-literary interactions. She is leads, with Eetu Mäkelä, the consortium FILTER (Formulaic intertextuality, thematic networks and poetic variation across regional cultures of Finnic oral poetry, Academy of Finland, 2020–2024), developing computational means to explore the Finnish-Estonian-Karelian-Ingrian corpus of oral poetry. With Senni Timonen and Lari Ahokas, she is working on a scholarly open access edition of early modern Finnish charms.
Research interests: Finnic oral poetry, performance, poetics, recording history, intertextuality, local genres, oral-literary interaction, early modern charms, Olaus Sirma
External positions
Academy Research Fellow, Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden Seura
1 Sep 2021 → 31 Aug 2026
Postdoctoral researcher of the Academy of Finland, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
1 Sep 2017 → 10 Dec 2020
Postdoctoral researcher, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran
1 Feb 2016 → 31 Aug 2017
Researcher, Finnish Literature Society (SKS)
1 Jan 2011 → 15 May 2015
Fields of Science
- 616 Other humanities
- Folklore Studies
- Ethnomusicology
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Oral poetry
- Historical anthropology
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Sanojen luonto: Kirjoituksia omaehtoisen ilmaisun poetiikasta ja ympäristöistä
Translated title of the contribution :The Nature of Words: Writings on the Poetics and Environments of Vernacular Expression Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or special issue › Scientific › peer-review
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The Early History of Rhyme in Finnish Poetry
Kallio, K., 5 Dec 2022, Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song. Sykäri, V. & Fabb, N. (eds.). Helsinki: Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura, p. 99–116 18 p. (Studia Fennica Folkloristica; vol. 25).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Inkerikot, setot ja vatjalaiset: Kansankulttuuri, kieli ja uskomusperinteet
Translated title of the contribution :Ingrians, Setos and Votes: Historical culture, language, and belief traditions Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
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Metric Variation in the Finnic Runosong Tradition: A Rough Computational Analysis of the Multilingual Corpus
Sarv, M., Kallio, K., Janicki, M. M. & Mäkelä, E., 2021, Tackling the Toolkit: Plotting Poetry through Computational Literary Studies. Plecháč, P., Kolár, R., Bories, A-S. & Říha, J. (eds.). Prague: ICL CAS, p. 131–150 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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What to Call the Poetic Form: Kalevala-Meter or Kalevalaic Verse, regivärss, Runosong, the Finnic Tetrameter, Finnic Alliterative Verse or Something Else?
Kallio, K., Frog, M. & Sarv, M., 2017, In: RMN Newsletter. 12-13, p. 139-161 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific
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FILTER: Formulaic intertextuality, thematic networks and poetic variation across regional cultures of Finnic oral poetry (Academy of Finland research project no. 333138)
Kallio, K., Mäkelä, E., Janicki, M. M., Saarinen, J., Sarv, M. & Kanner, A.
01/09/2020 → 31/08/2024
Project: Research project
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MuMOC: Academy of Finland research project The Muted Muses of Oral Culture. Ideology, transnationalism and silenced sources in the making of national heritages and literatures
Tarkka, L., Saarelainen, J. K., Karhu, H., Hämäläinen, N., Kallio, K. & Mäkelä, H. H.
01/09/2019 → 31/08/2023
Project: Research project
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Ambiguous and Hybrid Oral poetics: Registers of Expression and Layers of Belief in Western Finland
01/09/2017 → 30/09/2021
Project: Research project
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Letters and Songs: Registers of beliefs and expressions in the Early Modern North
Lehtonen, T. M. S., Bastman, E., Lahtinen, A., Kaljundi, L., Leskelä, I., Kallio, K. & Koskinen, U.
01/09/2015 → 31/08/2020
Project: Research project
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Cultural Meanings and Vernacular Genres (CMVG)
Tarkka, L., Anttonen, P., Apo, S., Siikala, A., Salmi-Niklander, K., Latvala, P., Survo, A., Frog, M., Ahola, J., Hyvönen, J. T., Kallio, K., Koski, K., Naarminen, N., Lukin, K., McKeough, A., Misharina, G., Ojanen, K., Savolainen, U., Stark, E., Stepanova, E., Sykäri, V., Mäkelä, H. H. & Hämäläinen, N.
24/02/2011 → …
Project: Research Evaluation 2011
Activities
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Karjalainen Kalevala ('Karelian Kalevala', in Finnish)
Kati Kallio (Speaker)
28 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Silenced Sources, Heritage, and the Oral-Literary Continuum
Lotte Tarkka (Chair of organizing committee), Niina Hämäläinen (Member of organizing committee), Kati Kallio (Member of organizing committee), Hanna Karhu (Member of organizing committee), Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä (Member of organizing committee) & Juhana Kaj Saarelainen (Member of organizing committee)
28 Jun 2023 → 30 Jun 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Prostikkua milma: Karjalaisuus, suomalaisuus ja Kalevala (Prostikkua milma: Karelianness, Finnishness and Kalevala)
Kati Kallio (Speaker)
28 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Kiista karjalaisen ja suomalaisen identiteetin suhteista
Kati Kallio (Speaker)
15 Oct 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Towards a Lab of Folklore Texts: Explorations on Finnic Oral Poetry
Mari Sarv (Speaker) & Kati Kallio (Speaker)
24 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk