My research interest are in the history of modernity and especially in the nineteenth century themes in Nordic countries. I have keen interest ih the history of the self and have studied various kinds of autobiographical texts from letters and diaries to published autobiographies. I have written about cultural history of women’s writing, cultural history of psychiatry, history of melancholia. My monograph (PhD thesis) analyzed women’s autobiographical texts on melancholia in the late nineteenth century Scandinavia. Recently I have been involved in two research projects, one of them focuses on written madness – mental illness in Finnish autobiographies and novels. The other focuses on the ‘inner child’ in Finnish autobiographical literature.

From August 2020 to August 2022 I work as researcher in Cultural History at the University of Turku. My project  "Broken Minds: Mentally Ill Individual and the History of Finnish Care" is funded by the Kone Foundation