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Kaisa
Kortekallio
Postdoctoral Researcher, Literary Studies and Creative Writing
Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS)
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Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS)

Areas of expertise

embodied cognitive approaches to literature
literature and the environment
narrative studies
posthumanism
science fiction
speculative fiction

Teaching

I have taught MA courses on speculative fiction, posthumanism, and environmental crises (mostly University of Helsinki, 2014 - 2020) and designed MOOC courses on planetary well-being (JYU.Wisdom / Jyväskylä Open University; see https://www.jyu.fi/en/open-university/courses-offered/planetary-well-being). In invited lectures, I have also covered topics on e.g., close reading and new materialism. 

Research

I work on the fields of literary studies, philosophy, and sustainability studies. My main focus is on the cultural responses to environmental crises and the ongoing sustainability transformation. In TIAS, I focus on utopian currents of thought related to plants and gardens.

Publications

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