Anu Koivunen is professor of Gender Studies. After finishing her PhD in Media Studies in Turku in 2003, she worked as postdoctoral researcher at the Christina Institute for Women’s Studies at University of Helsinki (2003–2005), as assistant and associate professor in Cinema Studies at Stockholm University (2005–2012) and as acting professor of Media Culture at University of Tampere (2006­–2007). She was appointed Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm university in 2012, working in 2015–2017 as Senior Research Fellow at Department of History, Philosophy and Art Studies at University of Helsinki and, before starting her current post in August 2021, acting as Professor of Gender Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University. Koivunen was appointed docent in Media Culture at University of Tampere in 2004 and as docent in the fields of Cinema and TV Studies and Women’s Studies at University of Helsinki in 2004.