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Biography
In October 2020 at the Université Paris Cité, I defended a thesis in film studies relating Robert Bresson and Aki Kaurismäki. Before my TIES position, I used to teached Finnish at Sorbonne University. I was also a lecturer in Film studies at the universities of Paris Cité, Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle, Caen Normandie and Helsinki, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Turku. I am a member of the editorial board of the journals Études finno-ougriennes and Nordiques.
My work focuses on the aesthetics and history of cinema and audiovisual productions in the Nordic and Finno-Ugric areas, approached from a transnational, sociocultural and ecocritical perspective.
PhD: "Élucider Kaurismäki, revoir Bresson: Mise en relation des œuvres de Robert Bresson et d'Aki Kaurismäki" – 8. october 2020.
Teaching
Total teaching since 2015: 17 different courses in both Nordic and film studies for Paris Cité University, Sorbonne University, Caen Normandie University, Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III University and University of Helsinki.
Subjects taught: history, theory and aesthetics of cinema, the concept of the auteur in cinema, audiovisual analysis, history and culture of Nordic cinema, Finnish culture and literature.
Research
TIES research project: Charlie Bauer and Marius Raichi: the Frenchmen, who filmed Finland
The project explores the impact of French cinematographers Marius Raichi and Charlie Bauer in Finnish cinema from 1937 to the 1940s. Film professionals are seen as cultural actors shaping the culture of their milieu through their participation in the production. This approach thus privileges attention to lived and represented realities through targeted case studies. This project discusses the cultural memory of Finland by observing how film production has had an important role in the representation of Finland and how these French technicians have been central in it. Through the analysis of their works, it proposes the hypothesis of a national representation being more French than what has been considered.