Sanna Turoma

Educated at the University of Helsinki and Columbia University (USA), I specialize in culture, literature and humanities in Russian area studies. My research and teaching interests span the interactions between culture and society, intellectual histories, and imperial and spatial knowledge production in the Eurasian context. I am the author and co-author of Brodsky Abroad: Empire, Tourism, Nostalgia (U of Wisconsin Press, 2010); Empire Decentered: New Spatial Histories of Russia and the Soviet Union, w/M. Waldstein (Ashgate, 2013); Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia, w/B.Beumers, A.Etkind, O.Gurova (Routledge, 2017); Russia as Civilization: Politics, Media, and Academia, w/K. J. Mjör (Routledge, 2020); Geopolitics and Culture. Narrating Eastern European and Eurasian Worlds, w/S. Kaasik-Krogerus & S. Ratilainen (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025). I have also co-edited two Finnish-language textbooks, Venäläisen kirjallisuuden historia, w/K.Ekonen (Gaudeamus, 2011, 2015) and Aatteiden Venäjä: ideoiden ja aktivismin historiaa, w/ V. Oittinen & M.Perkiömäki (Gaudeamus, August 2026).