Researchers
Dr Risto Blomster, Archival Researcher
- music of Finland's Roma
- sound archives
- folk music archive materials
- epic poetry
- folkloristic archive research
- ethnocultural notions of belonging and cultural identities
- history of folkloristic research
Dr Niina Hämäläinen, Researcher
- Kalevala meter poetry
- Kalevala and the study of the epic
- Critical editions
- textualization research
- cultural history of emotions and the family
Dr Kati Kallio, Academy Research Fellow
- Finnic oral poetry, singing cultures
- performance, genre and intertextuality
- emotion, ritual and vernacular belief
- metrics and music
- literary manuscripts
- genetic criticism
- Otto Manninen
Dr Sakari Katajamäki, Managing Editor
- textual criticism, textual scholarship, scholarly editions
- Lauri Viita, Aleksis Kivi
- poetry and theory of poetry
- literary avant-garde and experimental poetry
- digital humanities
Dr Kirsi Keravuori, Publishing Director
- biography and ego-documents
- letters and epistolary culture
- 19th century self-taught writers
- history of the Nordic archipelago and peasant seafaring
Prof. Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen, Secretary General
- interfaces of oral and literary culture in the Early Modern Baltic Sea region
- Medieval history and and literature in Latin
- historiography of the Middle Ages and in the early modern age
- rhetoric and poetics
Dr Ulla-Maija Peltonen, emerita
- historical narrative tradition
- oral history methodology
- relations between private and public narrative in wartime
- theory and methods of archive research
- 19th-century historical culture
- Digital Humanities
- historical fiction
- history of historiography
Dr. Jukka Saarinen, Researcher
- Kalevala epic
- digitized archive materials and databases
- folkloristic fieldwork
Dr. Viliina Silvonen, Post doctoral researcher
- folklore studies, ethnomusikology
- karelian lament tradition
- performance, practice, genre
- affects, emotions
- archival material