Areas of expertise
Research fields: literature and history
- early modern Swedish and Finnish Literature
- occasional poetry and hymns
- theory and research of lyrical poetry
- poetics, rhetoric and metrics
- 17th- and 18th-century literary culture
- history of literature
I am a literary scholar specializing in early modern poetry in Finnish and Swedish. I work as a university researcher at Tampere University and as a researcher at the Research Department of the Finnish Literature Society.
My research focuses on poetry written in the Swedish Realm during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with particular attention to occasional poetry. I am interested in the poetics of occasional poetry as well as its social and cultural contexts.
At present, I am working in the project The Verses of Learning – Epideixis and the Cultural Stories of Nature at Early Modern Universities, led by Professor Sari Kivistö (Academy of Finland 2026–2031, https://projects.tuni.fi/versitas).
The project examines early modern occasional poetry grounded in the epideictic rhetoric of praise, as well as the roles of poetry and rhetoric in the history of the natural sciences. Its aim is to analyze the multifaceted cultural, social, and epistemic functions of occasional poetry.
Selected publications
Kirjallisuuden keskiöstä katveeseen: Määrällinen katsaus tilannerunouden vaiheisiin. In: Sari Kivistö, Katariina Kärkelä, Erika Pihl and Isa Välimäki (Eds.), Unohtuneet kirjoitukset. Katoaminen kirjallisuushistoriassa. SKS (2025) https://cris.tuni.fi/ws/portalfiles/portal/161134464/Kirjallisuuden_keskiosta.pdf
(Together with Sari Kivistö:) Representing family relations through occasional poetry in seventeenth-century Turku. In: Mari Välimäki (Ed.), Academic Households in Early Modern Northern Europe. Routledge (2025)
Mars Destroys, Love Mends. Wedding Poetry During the Great Northern War. Edda Vol 111 (2024), nr. 1 https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/edda.111.1.2
(Together with Kati Kallio:) Turning Simple Speech into Beautiful Song: Imitative Poetics and the Combination of Registers in Ilo-Laulu Jesuxesta (1690). In: Kati Kallio, Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen, Anu Lahtinen & Ilkka Leskelä (eds), Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Society in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region. Leiden: Brill, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004429772_012
Sounding a Song of Praise: Forms and meanings of sound repetition in an 18th century hymn. Venla Sykäri & Nigel Fabb (eds) Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2022. https://doi.org/10.21435/sff.25
Att kommunicera känsla. Dialogdikter i stormaktstidens gravskrifter över kvinnor. Historiska och litteraturhistoriska studier 96 (2021) https://doi.org/10.30667/hls.100130
Eeva-Liisa Bastman, Kati Kallio & Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen: Vernakulaarin monta tasoa. Näkökulmia Matthias Salamniuksen runoon Ilo-Laulu Jesuxesta. Elore Vol. 27 Nro 1 (2020) https://doi.org/10.30666/elore.89057
Jäljittelyn ja muuntelun dynamiikkaa Matthias Salamniuksen runossa Ilo-Laulu Jesuxesta. Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain 3/2019. https://journal.fi/avain/article/view/82789/44966
Rakkauden kryytimaassa. Korkean veisun repertuaari kansanomaisessa ja kirjallisessa käytössä. Ed. by Niina Hämäläinen, Hanna Karhu ja Silja Vuorikuru: Satuperinteestä nykyrunoon. Helsinki: SKS, 2019.
Poetiikka ja pietismi 1700- ja 1800-luvun suomenkielisessä virsirunoudessa. University of Helsinki 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-51-3246-8.
