Veijo Pulkkinen

Tutkimuksen ja opetuksen kuvaus

Veijo Pulkkinen earned his PhD in literature at the University of Oulu in 2010. In 2018, he was awarded  the Title of Docent at the University of Helsinki. From 2011 to 2014 Pulkkinen worked as a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Academy of Finland. He has published a monograph (Runoilija latomossa: geneettinen tutkimus Aaro Hellaakosken Jääpeilistä [2017, The Poet in the Typesetting Room: a Genetic Study on Aaro Hellaakoski’s Jääpeili]) and articles on visual poetry and the application of genetic and textual criticism to literary interpretation. In his current project, Pulkkinen studies the role of the typewriter in Finnish literature from genetic and medial perspectives.