• PL 24 (Unioninkatu 40)

    00014

    Suomi

20022024

Tutkimustuotoksia vuodessa

Henkilökohtainen profiili

Tutkimuksen ja opetuksen kuvaus

My research focuses on interdisciplinary literary studies, from complex systems dynamics in English literature (Reading the Texture of Reality, 2008), to my current work in cognitive narratology. Most lately, my research has been on 2nd-generation (enactive) cognitive approaches to literature, and this work can be found in the book out in the Routledge series on Cognitive Humanities: Self-Reflective Fiction and 4E Cognition: An Enactive Approach to Literary Artifice (2023). I teach compulsory courses in literary studies and academic writing, as well as option courses and seminars in narratology, cognitive literary studies, contemporary English metafiction, and speculative fiction. I also supervise PhD dissertations on these and similar topics.
         I was part of the original steering group of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities network and a member of the Narrating Complexity network organised by the University of York. I was also one of the team PIs in the consortium Instrumental Narratives: Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory (iNARR), funded by the Research Council of Finland 2018-2022. 
      
Currently I am a member of the Executive Council for the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN, 2022-2025), of the research group Enhancing and Reassessing Enactivism (ERE, HSSH funding 2024), and PI of the Method and Matter network for literary studies within the University of Helsinki (Faculty of Arts Future Funds 2024-). I'm also collaborator in the Durham University's Narrative and Cognition Lab.

Teaching in the spring term 2025

  • BA Programme in Languages (English):
  • Individual study guidance (HOPS) and portfolio work

  • MA Programme in English Studies:
  • MA Thesis Seminar in Literature
  • ENG-Opt353 Science Fiction and Fantasy

Fediverse (Mastodon): @[email protected]

Photo: Johan Wahlgren for SCAS

 

Koulutus / tieteellinen pätevyys

Yleinen kirjallisuustiede, dosentti, Helsingin yliopisto

Myöntöpäivä: 17 toukok. 2017

englantilainen filologia, FT

Myöntöpäivä: 27 tammik. 2009

Asemat yliopiston ulkopuolella

Erik Allardt Visiting Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study

syysk. 2019kesäk. 2020

Visiting Scholar, Literature, Cognition and Emotions (LCE) / University of Oslo

2 elok. 201930 elok. 2019

Visiting Scholar, Project Narrative / The Ohio State University

1 helmik. 201230 huhtik. 2012

Tieteenalat

  • 6122 Kirjallisuuden tutkimus