It has been a while since my article “New Sincerity and Commitment to Emotion in Dorothea Lasky’s Poetry” was published in the journal English Studies (available open access here), but I realized I had not written about it here. The
Conceptual confession, or how you can have your vulnerability and eat it too
But can you have your cake and eat it too? My recent article “Conceptual Confession: Asymmetrical Emotion in Writer-Reader Relations in Trisha Low’s The Compleat Purge”, published in the Journal of Modern Literature (43: 4), discusses the connections between conceptual
Vaikeita suhteita -tutkimusprojektin esittelyvideo (Intro video for the Difficult Relations project)
Allaolevalla videolla esittelen Vaikeita suhteita: Tunteiden lukeminen kokeellisessa nykyrunoudessa -projektiani. In the video below, I introduce my research project Difficult Relations: Reading for Emotion in Recent American Experimental Poetry in Finnish, but English subtitles are available – click CC and
Bernadette Mayer’s movements in the mind
My new article ”Movement in the present: Poetry as a mindfulness project in Bernadette Mayer’s Studying Hunger Journals” discusses how Mayer’s poetry project observes movements in the mind, all the emotional and affective reactions that cross her mind. Mayer (b.
Switching your teaching to Zoom on a short notice?
Based on my limited experience of teaching a few courses online last semester on a short notice, using Zoom (video conference software) and Canvas (learning management platform), I wanted to try to break down what it means to teach synchronously
Mall of Tripla ja amerikkalaisen ostoskeskuksen unelma
Nyt kun Mall of Tripla hienoine amerikkalaisperäisine nimineen herättää keskustelua (ks. Helsingin Sanomat), on hyvä aika tutustua uuteen akateemiseen artikkeliini, joka käsittelee muun muassa amerikkalaisten ostoskeskusten poetiikkaa. Kirjoitan artikkelissa muun muassa Robert Fittermanin runoteoksesta nimeltä Sprawl (2010). Se on käsitetaiteellinen
Shopping malls, television and American experimental poetry
My new article, “Lapse of Happily: Consuming Everyday Banality in American Experimental Poetry”, has been published. This is an article about shopping malls and television, and the way they provide us with “some freedom but only within established limits” (p.
Post doc -uran pelimaailma
[This is a post about being a post doc in Finland, available only in Finnish.] Pidin maaliskuussa lyhyen alustuksen post doc -rahoituksen hakemisesta ja post doc -vaiheesta yleisesti laitoksemme tohtorikoulutettaville. Ajattelin kirjata joitain niistä ajatuksista ylös tänne, jospa niistä olisi
Difficult Relations: Project update
My current research project is titled Difficult Relations: Reading for Emotion in Recent American Experimental Poetry. I thought I might briefly explain what it is all about. Recent experimental poetry may, for instance, be disjunctive and use appropriated material extracted
Experimentalism as Reciprocal Communication in Contemporary American Poetry
My book, Experimentalism as Reciprocal Communication in Contemporary American Poetry: John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, is now out from John Benjamins. The book belongs to the FILLM (Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes) book series FILLM Studies in