Ulla Savolainen

Ulla Savolainen (PhD, title of Docent) is a university researcher at the University of Helsinki, Department of Cultures. She is a folklorist specializing in memory studies, oral history, and narrative research. She has also researched experiences and expressions related to mobility, transnationality, and materiality. Currently, she leads a research project titled “Transnational Memory Cultures of Ingrian Finns” (2020–2022). Savolainen's doctoral dissertation (2015) focused on the life writings of former Karelian child evacuees in Finland and the poetics of life writings and reminiscing. She has also researched oral histories of internments of German and Hungarian citizens in Finland in 1944–1946 and analyzed reception of compensation for past injustice. Savolainen is the chair of the Finnish Oral History Network (FOHN) and a co-chair of MSA Nordic. She has published her research in e.g.  Memory Studies, Narrative Inquiry, the Journal of American Folklore, the Oral History, and Poetics Today (forthcoming).