Ilona Pikkanen

Special areas:

Ilona Pikkanen, M.A., Project Manager

• 19th and early 20th century historiography; historiographical narratology
• the history of the theatre in the 19th century, the study of nation-nes

Ilona Pikkanen works as a project manager in the research department at the SKS. She is preparing a doctoral thesis on the historiography of Finnish-language theatre in the 19th and early 20th centuries for the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of Tampere.

Key publications:

• Theatre Histories and the Construction of National Identity. Cases Norway and Finland. In Nationalizing the Past. Historians as Nation-Builders in Modern Europe. Eds. Stefan Berger and Chris Lorenz. Palgrave Macmillan 2010.
• Kansakunta kerrontana: Eliel Aspelin-Haapkylä ja suomalaisen teatterin suomalainen menneisyys [The Narrated Nation: Eliel Aspelin-Haapkylä and the Finnish Past of the Finnish-language Theatre]. In Kirjoitettu kansakunta. Eds. Maarit Leskelä-Kärki, Marja Jalava, Irma Sulkunen et al. (forthcoming)
• Ensimmäiset kaksitoista. Pienoisartikkeli teoksessa Irma Sulkunen: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura 1831–1892. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Helsinki 2004.



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