Raita
Merivirta
Faculty of Humanities
PhD, Docent

Contact

Arcanuminkuja 1
20500
Turku

Areas of expertise

Colonialism
postcolonial literature
Indian English literature
modern Indian history
historical film
Irish cinema
twentieth-century Irish history
Finns and colonialism

Biography

I'm a doctoral researcher at the Department of European and World History. My research project examines colonial discourse in Finnish children's literature in the twentieth century. I am also more broadly interested in Finnish encounters with colonialism.

Research

I examine colonial discourse and racialization in Finnish children's literature in 1890-1970. I'm also working more broadly on themes related to Finns' encounters with colonialism.

I'm also working on a number of articles on the depictions of the Irish revolutionary years (1916-1923) on screen.


Publications

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