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PhD, Licentiate in Medicine ABD
1981 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, graphics
1977-78 Free Art School
1967-69 Helsinki University Drawing Institute
1975-94 Art History, University of Helsinki
2012 Docent of Comparative Literature, University of Helsinki
I am studying the persistent reorganization of subjectivity and the sense of "self" from the current viewpoints of an enactive embodied mind. Lastly, focused on the cooperation of the embodied mind's unconscious and non-conscious aspects with the conscious one, I investigate how they can contribute to cultural value-formation in literature through memory and imagination, thus modificating our cultural memory.
My earlier research topics in the field are several. In the doctoral thesis on Marguerite Duras's trauma fiction, I studied the aesthetics of postcolonial trauma narratives. I also investigated literary emotions in the light of Peircean semiotics and late Roland Barhes's ideas about affective image. Then, building on the basis of studying Friederike Mayröcker's lyrics, I published an extensive Finnish selection of her poems, with an afterword concerning Mayröcker's literary career and style (Elämän käpälistä, ntamo 2018).
On the practical level, in my art exhibitions and performances between 1988 and 2008, I combined written and spoken lyrics with instrumental, dance and voice improvisations of various professional artists and lay groups.
Last works
The Chapter of From implicit memory to cultural counter-memory: Marguerite Duras rewriting colonial trauma was published Nov 2022 in Cultural Memory. From the Sciences to the Humanities, eds. Donald R. Wehrs, Suzanne Nalbantian & Don M. Tucker (Routledge)
Academic teaching
Comparative Literature, University of Helsinki
2015-16 Representing consciousness in literature in the era of internet, I & II, practicum
2012 Studying trauma narratives, practicum
2012 Literary trauma studies, a methodological lecture
Semiotics, University of Helsinki
2010 Trauma fiction of Marguerite Duras and Sofi Oksanen, a lecture in the series of Studia Semiotica: Freedom and Necessity
2007 Roland Barthes' affective image - lectures in the series on Barthes's semiotics
2002 Measured-experienced-narrated: semiotics of medical case histories - a lecture in the series of Studia Semiotica
Comparative Literature, University of Tampere
2006 Trauma narratives in the light of Marguerite Duras's works. A lecture in the common series of literature and medicine Art and Illness
Comparative Literature, Women Studies, and Sociology of Arts, University of Joensuu
1996-99 Woman in literature and institutions of literature - a practicum series
1995 Narratology of Marguerite Duras's works, a hermeneutic viewpoint - a lecture
Comparative Literature, PhD, Helsingin yliopisto
Sept 1999 → 12 Dec 2009
Award Date: 29 Jan 2010
Medicine, Licentiate of Medicine ABD, Physician, Helsingin yliopisto
1 Jan 1968 → 31 Dec 1974
Award Date: 31 Dec 1974
Cognitive psychotherapist Advanced level
1 Jun 2005 → 18 May 2018
Artist
28 Aug 1988 → …
Physician
1 Jan 1975 → 21 Dec 2016
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or special issue › General public
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Knuuttila, S. (Participant)
15/11/2005 → …
Project: Research project
Knuuttila, S. (Project manager)
15/07/2005 → 12/12/2018
Project: Research project
Knuuttila, S. (Participant)
17/01/2017 → …
Project: Research project
Knuuttila, S. (Other)
25/02/2014 → …
Project: Research project
Knuuttila, S. (Project manager)
Emil Öhmannin säätiö, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur
28/07/2007 → 31/10/2017
Project: Other project
Knuuttila, S. (Speaker: Presenter)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Knuuttila, S. (Speaker: Presenter)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Knuuttila, S. (Speaker: Presenter)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Knuuttila, S. (Speaker: Keynote)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Knuuttila, S. (Attendee)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Knuuttila, S., Pietari, K., Mayröcker, F., Sumari, A., Heino, H. & Huttunen, K.
23/07/2020
2 Media contributions
Press/Media: Press / Media
Knuuttila, S. & Valli, S.
21/12/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Knuuttila, S. & Kainulainen, S.
15/09/2010
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Knuuttila, S. & Rastenberger, A.-K.
08/06/2010
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Knuuttila, S. & Rantanen, T.
23/03/2010
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media