What do I do…
I am a researcher with a focus on US poetry and a versatile university teacher with diverse experience teaching English courses in Finland and Sweden.
I am University Lecturer of English Language and Culture at the University of Eastern Finland. In 2022-7/2023, I worked as University Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Turku. In the past, I have taught at Lund University (fall 2021), the English teacher education program at Luleå University of Technology (fall 2019) and the Department of English, University of Turku (spring 2014, summer/fall 2017) and at the University of Eastern Finland (2020-2021).
Read more about my research and teaching.
I have written book reviews in Finnish for a newspaper and for Finnish literary magazines. I also do occasional translations (English-Finnish, Finnish-English).
I am also interested in visual art and have blogged about it in Finnish here.
I have experience teaching English literature courses, BA & MA thesis seminars, academic writing on many different levels from first-year students to doctoral candidates, introductory sociolinguistics, SLA research methods, introduction to creative writing for English students & North American Studies introductions.
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