Areas of expertise
Biography
I am a Postdoctoral researcher at Media studies.
I defended my thesis in December 2024 at the University of Turku (Media studies). I also hold a Master of Arts degree in Documentary Practice, from the Brunel University London (2010), and a Master in Social Sciences from the University of Tampere (2005), where I majored in International Relations and Journalism. I have also worked as a journalist, copy editor and creative writing instructor.
Teaching
University of Turku:
- course: Writing art critique, Autumn 2024
- course on film aesthetics: Näkökulmia elokuvan estetiikkaan, Autumn 2019
- SELMA writing circle: Dimensions of humanistic writing, Autumn 2018
- course: Poetics and politics of contemporary Nordic documentary +
practice-based workshop on documentary filmmaking, Autumn 2017
- lectures on various topics in film studies (2014-)
Turku Arts Academy:
- course on documentary film history, 2012-2013
Research
In my article-based PhD, titled Traces, Gaps and Constellations: Acts of Remembering in the Contemporary Nordic Documentary Film (2024), I explored how films create relationships with pasts in the present while making use of temporal imagination as a non-linear mode of remembering. I investigated the aesthetics and politics involved in acts of remembering in five Nordic documentaries produced in the 2000s where documentary remembering emerges as an evocative and generative process that forms connections between people, places and different temporalities. In the research, documentary film was explored as a site for encounters, translations and transformations, where aesthetic and ethical potential of the documentary film as an act of remembering can be examined closer. The transdisciplinary research was situated in the crossroads between documentary film studies and memory studies, with important branches reaching to indigenous studies and film aesthetics.