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Contributors 1–2/2014 SQS Contributors 1–2/2014 86 Contributors Mikko Carlson, Ph.D. [email protected] Mikko Carlson is a researcher at the Department of Finnish Literature, University of Turku, Finland. He defended his doctoral thesis “Paikantuneita haluja. Seksuaalisuus ja tila Christer Kihlmanin tuotannossa” [Situated Desires. Sexuality and Space in Selected Fiction of Christer Kihlman] in May 2014. The dissertation, published by Nykykulttuurin tutkimuskeskus, dealt with the problematic of non-normative sexuality and social space. His recent articles on this subject are included in Sään- nellyt vapaudet. Tulkintoja toiseuden tuottamisesta, [Regulated Liberties. Readings of the Production of Otherness] eds. Marinne Liljeström & Marko Gylén Picture © The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas (2014), Queera Läsningar [Queer Readings] eds. Katri Kivilaakso, Ann-Sofie Lönngren & Rita Paqvalén (2012), and in Häpeä vähän! Kriittisiä tutkimuk- sia häpeästä [Shame on you! Critical Writings on ja kohtalon oikkuja. Elvira Willmanin kamppailu research, Hyttinen is looking at the different ways Shame] eds. Siru Kainulainen & Viola Parente- työläiskirjallisuuden tekijyydestä vuosisadanvaihteen ‘the queer’ figures and becomes figured in 1910s Čapková (2011). Suomessa [Hard Work and Twists of Fate. Elvira Finnish literature. Hyttinen has also worked widely Willman’s Struggle for Working-Class Authorship on the fields of feminist and queer journalism in Elsi Hyttinen, Ph.D. in Turn-of-the-Century Finland] was published in Finland, inter alia as the editor-in-chief for the [email protected] 2012. The monograph brings together a number feminist magazine Tulva and the managing editor of Elsi Hyttinen is a University Lecturer at the Depart- of her interests: working-class history, authorship Normihomolehti. ment of Finnish Literature, University of Turku, studies, poststructuralist feminist theory, queer Finland. Her doctoral dissertation Kovaa työtä studies and archival research. In her postdoctoral Kaisa Ilmonen, Ph.D. Sade Kondelin, M.A. Mari Pajala, Ph.D. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] SQS Kaisa Ilmonen is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Sade Kondelin is a Ph.D. student of Gender Studies at Mari Pajala is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at 1–2/2014 Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS). She the University of Turku, Finland. They have recently the University of Turku. Her research has focused on has published widely on Queer Studies and Post- begun working on their doctoral dissertation on Finnish television history and culture, television as a colonial literature and is the co-editor (with Lasse embodied knowledges of gender in Finnish trans- technology of cultural memory, and feminist media Kekki) of Pervot pidot. Homo- lesbo- ja queer- gender experiences. Kondelin’s research interests, studies. Her work has appeared for example in the 87 näkökulmia kirjallisuudentutkimukseen (2004), the in addition to transgender epistemologies, include journals Critical Studies in Media Communication, first Finnish anthology on queer literary studies. feminist materialist philosophy, empowerment in Media History, and Critical Studies in Television. Finnish transgender communities, and femininity Contributors Tuula Juvonen, Dr.Soc.Sc. in the experiences of assigned-female-at-birth Katja Seutu, Ph.D. [email protected] transgender people. They are also involved in many [email protected] Tuula Juvonen is an Academy Research Fellow at the forms of transgender and feminist activism. Katja Seutu is an independent researcher of University of Tampere, Finland. After finishing her Finnish Literature at the University of Helsinki. Her doctoral dissertation on the post-war construction of Jukka Lehtonen, Dr.Soc.Sc. dissertation (2009) focused on Maila Pylkkönen’s Finnish homosexuality, she has done, among other [email protected] poetry from the viewpoint of a dramatic monologue things, queer action research on Finnish archiving Jukka Lehtonen is project researcher at Hanken and Finnish post-war modernism. She is interested practices. Currently she is studying intimate and School of Economics. Lehtonen has focused on in nostalgia and epiphanies, and has published social lives of women with same-sex sexual attractions research on non-heterosexual and trans youth, and many articles on poetry in Finnish journals. Seutu is in Tampere since the 1970s. heteronormativity as well as sexual and gender currently finishing a monograph, titled Tyhjä pöytä diversity in education, work environment, youth on tilattu: Näkökulmia Mirkka Rekolan runouden Jenny Kangasvuo, Ph.D. work and society at large. poetiikkaan, on the poetic oeuvre of her late friend [email protected] Mirkka Rekola. Jenny Kangasvuo is a cultural anthropologist, Sari Miettinen, M.A. who recently defended her doctoral thesis Finnish [email protected] Riikka Taavetti, M.Soc.Sc., M.A. Bisexuality – Cultural Terms of the Concept and Sari Miettinen is a Ph.D. student at the Department [email protected] Experiences at the University of Oulu, Finland. She of Gender Studies, University of Turku, Finland. Riikka Taavetti works currently as a researcher in has worked as a researcher and a teacher in Gender Currently, she is writing her doctoral thesis on the Finnish Youth Cooperation – Allianssi and studies Studies and Cultural Anthropology at the universities history and contextualization of queer theory and youth activity in non-governmental organizations. of Oulu, Helsinki, and Vaasa, specialising on issues studies in Finland within the Timelines of Academic She is also PhD student in political history at concerning sexuality, gendered violence and popular Feminism in Finland -project funded by Academy the University of Helsinki. She has published on culture. Her other research interests include Japanese of Finland. Her background is in various queer and LGBTIQ youth, history of sexuality in Finland and popular culture, porn studies and ethnic minorities. cultural activities such as SETA, Vinokino Film socialist feminism in the 1970s. She also writes fiction: her debut novel Sudenveri was Festival and SQS. published in 2012, and a bunch of her short stories have been published in anthologies and magazines..
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