
Areas of expertise
Research field: literature
- islands and seashores in literature
- authorship and copyrights
- various forms of imitation and reproduction
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- translations and translation criticism
- popularizing research
I am a literary scholar and hold a Title of Docent in Comparative Literature at the University of Helsinki. I’m currently working on a research project entitled “In the words of others: the art and craft of citation” (2024–2026).
My research interests include questions of authorship, imitation and forgery. I have also written extensively on islands and seashores as literary places.
Selected publications:
“Translating with Technology: How Digitalisation Affects Authorship and Copyright of Literary Texts.” With Maarit Koponen and Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov. In James Hadley, Kristiina Taivalkoski Shilov, Carlos S. C. Teixeira & Antonio Toral (eds), Using Technologies for Creative-Text Translation. Routledge: New York, 2022, 180–198.
Narratives of Fear and Safety. Tampere University Press, Tampere 2020. Edited with Kaisa Kaukiainen, Kaisa Kurikka, Hanna Mäkelä, Elise Nykänen, Juha Raipola, Anne Riippa & Hanna Samola.
“Poetics of the Shipping Forecast.” In Brigitte Le Juez & Bill Richardson (eds), Spaces of longing and belonging: territoriality, ideology and creative identity in literature and film. Brill: Leiden, 2019.
“Literature and International Copyright after the Berne Convention (1886).“ In Paula Rabinowitz (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2018.
“Shared Concepts as Case Studies of Interart Relations and Phenomena.” Folia linguistica et litteraria 22 (2018).
Double-Edged Imitation: Theories and Practices of Pastiche in Literature. PhD Thesis, University of Helsinki 2010.