A University Lecturer and Doctoral Student in English with a background in visual art, I write my dissertation on the Kristevan feminine in “Little Red Riding Hood” tales by contemporary women tellers mainly from Britain and North America. My research interests include English language, culture, and literature, visuality, fairy tales, and Kristevan theories on subjectivity, the genius, and feminine psychosexuality.

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I'm a University Teacher in English. I have been teaching English to BA/MA students at the University of Vaasa, the University of Jyväskylä in the roles of Doctoral Student and Lecturer. I worked full-time as a University Lecturer in Swedish and English at Hanken School of Economics in 2022, a Swedo-Finnish university, and the only standalone business school in Finland, mainly teaching spoken and written communication and the mastery of public speaking in Swedish, as well as written and oral business communication and academic writing in English. In fall 2023, I started working full-time as a University Teacher in English at Hanken, where I teach everything from academic writing and business communication to intercultural communication. 

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My dissertation is article-based, and I have so far written and published three articles and have one forthcoming. A preliminary article of my research was published in VAKKI 2016. Another article was published in Gramarye in 2021, a third online in NORA in 2022, and a fourth is forthcoming in 2024. My research is practice-based, and the results of each article are presented in both written and visual forms. You can view some preliminary visual results by choosing Visual Results from the main menu. Why visuals? Since visuals dominate Western communication today, academic research must also communicate through visual representations.

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My dissertation was submitted for pre-examination in October 2023, and the defense will be in late spring 2024. I completed the Integrating chapter while on a grant rewarded by the South Ostrobothnia Regional Fund, part of the Finnish Cultural Foundation. With my creative outcome in the form of artwork, I pay homage to my American art teachers Charlotte Berry and Dan Kuhne (Dan Yellow Kuhne), whom I remember with warmth and whom I am grateful to have studied with when completing my college degree in fine arts at the AACC, MA, USA. Dan was a most supportive mentor, discovering my gift of capturing people's likeness, which led to studies in portraiture with his wife Charlotte. Immersed in art and motherhood, I was happy during these years while  I also pursued courses in Honor English without knowing that they would one day lead to a doctoral degree. 

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