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Hanna Samola

University Lecturer
Faculty of Social Sciences | History, Philosophy and Literary Studies
Tampere University
hanna.samola [at] tuni.fi (hanna[dot]samola[at]tuni[dot]fi)
+358505686406
City Centre Campus
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3810-6105

About me

I work as a university lecturer in Finnish literature at Tampere University. I am also a docent in Finnish literature at the University of Turku. My doctoral dissertation (2016) discusses fairy tale intertexts and motifs in dystopian novels by Pirkko Lindberg, Laura Gustafsson, and Johanna Sinisalo. In my research, I have focused on genre studies, intertextual and intermedial studies, critical plant studies and fairy tale studies.

I have taught courses in literature and in Finnish language at the University of Oregon (2011-2012) and at the Stockholm University (2016-2017). I have also taught shorter classes in Finnish literature and language at the St. Petersburg State University (2015 and 2018), Petrozavodsk State University (2014), Adam Mickiewicz University (2019), Charles University and Masaryk University (2021), and University of Greifswald (2021). 

Fields of expertise

Fairy tale intertextuality and intermediality, dystopian literature, feminist dystopia, genre studies, intertextual and intermedial studies

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