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 specialised in early modern literature, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University.
My ongoing research project Multilingual poetic repertories and social contexts in early modern occasional poetry (2022–2025), which is funded by the Research Council of Finland, focuses on occasional poetry from the 17th and early 18th centuries written in Finnish and Swedish. I explore what kind of poetic features are used in occasional poetry, and how the social and cultural context in which occasional verse was written affected the form, subject matter and means of expression. The purpose of the study is to produce new information about the practices and principles of early modern poetry in the Swedish kingdom. I earned my PhD from the University of Helsinki in 2017. My dissertation focused on hymns from 18th century Pietist revival movements, the hymn as a lyric genre and the performative elements of hymn poetry.
Selected publications
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.
