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Biography
Mehdi Ghasemi received his PhD from the Department of English at the University of Turku. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tampere and the Finnish Literature Society (SKS). Now he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of English at the University of Turku. He is also a fiction writer, writing his books in the hybrid genre of “noveramatry” (a combination of novel, drama and poetry). He has already published six scholarly books, five fiction books, one literary anthology, and thirty scholarly papers in peer-reviewed, high-quality journals, including Orbis Litterarum, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Literary Studies, European Journal of American Studies, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, SAGE Open, Immigrant and Minorities, The CEA Critic, Literary Geographies and Contemporary Aesthetics.
Teaching
Mehdi Ghasemi has more than 12 years of teaching experience at university level, teaching technical courses to BA and MA students, majoring in English Language and Literature. He has passed 100 credits in Higher Education Pedagogy at the University of Turku, University of Tampere, Aalto University and TAMK. At the University of Turku, he teaches:
Literary Theory
Fiction and Poetry
Victorian Literature
Academic Reading and Writing
Proseminar and BA Thesis
North American Literature of the 2000s and 2010s
Introduction to Literary Studies
Literary Theory Workshop