Areas of expertise
Biography
Dr. Sanna Qvick defended her doctoral dissertation in December 2024 in musicology with the title "Captivating Film Sounds: Sonic Narration and World-Making in the Soundtracks of Finnish Fairy Tale Films."
She has been involved in the administration of the Finnish Society for Musicology. She has also served as a guest editor for the 2020 issue of the journal Nuorisotutkimus on popular culture, together with Dr. Anna-Elena Pääkkölä and Dr. Tiina Käpylä. Additionally, she has published articles on various topics in different academic journals and anthologies.
In 2022, she completed the basic studies in university pedagogy.
Teaching
Qvick has given many lectures based on her dissertation work on lecture courses, and she has taught intermediate level courses. She has also been acting as course coordinator on several method courses of cultural studies, audiovisual culture, film music studies and close reading. The most recent course she taught in the field of musicology was a course on History of Western Art Music.
Research
In her doctoral dissertation, she studied the narrativity of the film soundscape from the perspective of sonic world-making. Her research material consists of six Finnish children's fairy tale films from 1949 to 2004. Theoretically and methodologically, her research primarily draws on cultural musicology, recent film music studies that examine music as part of the film's audiovisual whole, and narrative film music research, as well as analytical "close reading." She seeked answers to questions such as how the soundtrack constructs the fairy tale world.
She has published scholarly writings (articles and book chapters) on film music, as can be seen from her publication list. Her main methods are audiovisual analysis and critical close reading, through which she explores theories and concepts in the field of film music and musicology.