Kaisa
Kortekallio
Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS)
PostDoctoral Researcher, Literary Studies and Creative Writing
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Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS)
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Areas of expertise
embodied cognitive approaches to literature
literature and the environment
narrative studies
posthumanism
science fiction
speculative fiction
Teaching
I have taught MA courses on speculative fiction, posthumanism, and environmental crises (mostly University of Helsinki, 2014 - 2020) and designed MOOC courses on planetary well-being (JYU.Wisdom / Jyväskylä Open University; see https://www.jyu.fi/en/open-university/courses-offered/planetary-well-being). In invited lectures, I have also covered topics on e.g., close reading and new materialism.
Research
I work on the fields of literary studies, philosophy, and sustainability studies. My main focus is on the cultural responses to environmental crises and the ongoing sustainability transformation. In TIAS, I focus on utopian currents of thought related to plants and gardens.
Publications
Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement (2024)
(Vertaisarvioitu tieteellinen erillisteos tai raportti (C1))Breathing with Seagrass: Embodied Estrangement and the Emerging Planthroposcene in Finnish Speculative Fiction (2023)
Extrapolation
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))