KatiKallio

I have worked with oral traditions, especially with historical Karelian, Ingrian and Finnish oral poetry, concentrating on topics such as variation, performance, intertextuality, recording history, poetics and poetic metre as well as the interaction of oral and literary cultures.

In my present Academy Research Fellow project funded by the Research Council of Finland, I am analysing regional cultures and shared features of Finnic oral poetry. I also lead the project “Variation of content and form of Finnic oral poetry in relation to linguistic and ethnic histories”, (2024–2028, IKAKE) funded by the Kone Foundation at the Finnish Literature Society.

All in all, we currently have approx. 250,000 digitized texts relating to runosong tradition in Estonian and Finnish collections. In the FILTER consortium project funded by the Research Council of Finland (2020–2024), we tested and developed computational tools suitable for this extremely varying and biased material, thereby also enabling easier close reading. We have links to our tools and publications on the project homepage. The similarity recognition interface Runoregi helps both researchers and others interested in finding similar versions of poetic lines, passages and texts.

I am participating in the project Karelian aspects of folk music in Finland and in the part about sources used by Elias Lönnrot in the Avoin Kalevala (Open Kalevala) edition. With Senni Timonen and Lari Ahokas, we are polishing an online edition of Finnish 17th century charms. The whole list of my academic publication is on the research portal of the University of Helsinki. Most of these are open access publications.

Interaction of early modern oral and literary culture

Kati Kallio & Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen & Anu Lahtinen & Ilkka Leskelä (eds.) 2024: Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Society in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004429772.

Kati Kallio 2022. The Early History of Rhyme in Finnish Poetry. In Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song, eds. Venla Sykäri and Nigel Fabb. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 99–116. https://doi.org/10.21435/sff.25.

Kati Kallio 2017. Literary Kalevala-Metre and Hybrid Poetics in the 16th and 17th Century Finland. Folklore: electronic journal of folklore 67, 13–48. https://doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2017.67.kallio.

Kati Kallio 2016: Changes in the Poetics of Song during the Finnish Reformation. In: Re-forming the Early modern North: Text, Music and Church Art, Eds. Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen & Linda Kaljundi. Amsterdam University Press, pp. 125–155. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048524938-007

Kati Kallio & Lehtonen, Tuomas & Timonen, Senni & Järvinen, Irma-Riitta & Leskelä, Ilkka 2017: Laulut ja kirjoitukset: Suullinen ja kirjallinen kulttuuri uuden ajan alun Suomessa. Helsinki: SKS. http://dx.doi.org/10.21435/skst.1427.

Poetics and contexts of the two 17th Sami poems by Olaus Sirma

Taarna Valtonen & Kati Kallio 2024. Olaus Sirma: Saami poetics and clerical networks in early modern Swedish Lapland. In Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Society in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region. Eds. Kati Kallio, Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen, Anu Lahtinen & Ilkka Leskelä. Leiden: Brill, 164–191. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004429772_008

Kati Kallio, Taarna Valtonen, & Marko Jouste 2024. Olaus Sirma, poetic irregularity, and the question of authorship. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja (99): 344–348. https://doi.org/10.33340/susa.131800

Kati & Valtonen, Taarna & Jouste, Marko 2019: Olaus Sirman runojen vertailevaa luentaa – runojen poetiikka suhteessa suullisiin ja kirjallisiin lähikulttuureihin. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran aikakauskirja 97, 109–152. https://doi.org/10.33340/susa.75266.

Regional variation of runosong tradition (Kalevalaic poetry)

Sarv, Mari & Kati Kallio & Maciej Janicki & Eetu Mäkelä 2021. Metric variation in the Finnic runosong tradition: A Rough Computational Analysis of the Multilingual Corpus. In: Petr Plecháč, Robert Kolár, Anne-Sophie Bories, Jakub Říha (Ed.). Tackling the Toolkit. Plotting Poetry through Computational Literary Studies (131−150). Prague: Institute of Czech Literature. https://doi.org/10.51305/ICL.CZ.9788076580336.09.

Kati Kallio & Frog with Sarv, Mari 2017: What to Call the Poetic Form: Kalevala-Meter or Kalevalaic Verse, regivärss, Runosong, the Finnic Tetrameter, Finnic Alliterative Verse, or Something Else? RMN Newsletter 12–13: 94–117. (http://hdl.handle.net/10138/305420.)

Sarv, Mari & Kati Kallio & Maciej M. Janicki. 2024. Arvutuslikke vaateid läänemeresoome regilaulude varieeruvusele: “Harja otsimine” ja “Mõõk merest”. Keel ja Kirjandus, 67(3), 238–259. https://doi.org/10.54013/kk795a2

Genres, performance and intertextuality of Ingrian oral poetry

Kati Kallio 2015a: Multimodal Register and Performance Arena in Ingrian Oral Poetry. In: Registers of Communication, toim. Asif Agha & Frog, Finnish Literature Society, s. 322–335. https://doi.org/10.21435/sflin.18.

Kati Kallio 2010: Interperformative Relationships in Ingrian Oral Poetry. Oral Tradition 25(2), s. 391–427. http://journal.oraltradition.org/issues/25ii/kallio.

Kallio, Kati 2013: Laulamisen tapoja. Esitysareena, rekisteri ja paikallinen laji länsi-inkeriläisessä kalevalamittaisessa runossa. Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto.

Computational analysis of Finnic oral poetry

Kallio, Kati & Mäkelä, Eetu & Maciej Janicki 2020: Historical Oral Poems and Digital Humanities: Starting with a Finnish Corpus. 54: 12–18. https://www.folklorefellows.fi/historical-oral-poems-and-digital-humanities/.

Janicki, Maciej & Kati Kallio and Mari Sarv and Eetu Mäkelä. 2024. Runoregi: A User Interface for Exploring Text Similarity in Oral Poetry. Proceedings of the 8th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference 6(1): [4 pages]. https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.11523

Janicki, Maciej & Kati Kallio & Mari Sarv 2023: Exploring Finnic written oral folk poetry through string similarity. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 38 (1): 180–194. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac034

Janicki, Maciej M. & Kati Kallio & Mari Sarv & Eetu Mäkelä 2024: Distributional criteria for identifying formulas in Finnic oral poetry. In Formulaic Language in Historical Research and Data Extraction. International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, 7.-9.02.2024. Ed. Marijn Koolen. Amsterdam: Huygens Institute for History and Culture of the Netherlands, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Zenodo, 1−17. https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10478324.

Kati Kallio & Maciej Janicki & Eetu Mäkelä & Mari Sarv 2022: Recognizing intertextuality in the digital corpus of Finnic oral poetry: experiment with the Sampo cycle. In: Karl Berglund, Matti La Mela & Inge Zwart (eds.): Proceedings of the 6th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB 2022). CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3232: 279–287. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3232/paper26.pdf.

Poetics, performance and music

Frog, Satu Grünthal, Jarkko Niemi & Kati Kallio (eds.) 2021: Versification: Metrics in Practice. Helsinki: SKS. https://doi.org/10.21435/sflit.12.

Kati Kallio 2021: Performance, music and meter in Finnic Kalevala-metric poetry. – Versification: Metrics in Practice. Eds. Frog, Satu Grünthal, Jarkko Niemi & Kati Kallio. Helsinki: SKS, pp. 59–78. https://doi.org/10.21435/sflit.12

Kati Kallio 2018: Parallelism and Musical Structures in Ingrian and Karelian Oral Poetry. Oral Tradition 31(2): 331–354 (Parallelism in Verbal Art and Performance, ed. by Frog & Lotte Tarkka). http://journal.oraltradition.org/issues/31ii/kallio.

Kati Kallio 2016: Changes in the Poetics of Song during the Finnish Reformation. In: Re-forming the Early modern North: Text, Music and Church Art, Eds. Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen & Linda Kaljundi. Amsterdam University Press, pp. 125–155. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048524938-007

Kalevala, cultural appropriation, and relationships of Karelian and Finnish culture

Silvonen, Viliina & Kati Kallio 2023. Tradition and Ownership. Dispute about Karelian laments in Finland. Approaching Religion 13(3), 40–59. https://doi.org/10.30664/ar.131229

Kati Kallio 2023: Karjalaisuus, suomalaisuus ja Kalevala I: Karjalaiset. Vähäisiä lisiä, http://www.finlit.fi/blogi/, 24.2.2023.

Kati Kallio 2023: Karjalaisuus, suomalaisuus ja Kalevala II: Voiko Kalevalan varastaa? Vähäisiä lisiä, http://www.finlit.fi/blogi/, 27.2.2023.

Kati Kallio 2023: Karjalaisuus, suomalaisuus ja Kalevala III: Miten tehdä tilaa? Vähäisiä lisiä, http://www.finlit.fi/blogi/, 28.2.2023.