MikaPylsy

I am a literary scholar specializing in modernism, expatriate Finnish literatures, and Finnish-Russian cultural relations, and I work as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. At present, I am studying the literary representations of Ingria and their significance for the formation of Finnish Ingrian identity in my Kone Foundation–funded project Finnish Literature of Ingria (2024–27).

My research interests focus particularly on literary history that combines textual criticism with the study of reception. I have taught literary studies at the Universities of Toronto and Helsinki. My doctoral dissertation was a conceptual-historical study of stylization as a key concept in modernism (University of Helsinki, 2023). One of my major contributions is to the edited volume Henkinen muuri: Suomalaisvenäläiset kirjallisuussuhteet 1800–1930 (Finnish Literature Society, 2024), for which I wrote chapters on the reception of Russian literature in Finland in the early twentieth century, Finnish literature in St. Petersburg, and Finnish literary translation anthologies.