Ilmari Leppihalme

Ilmari Leppihalme, PhD is University teacher in Gender Studies and a postdoctoral researcher. He is a scholar of literary studies who also works within the fields of film studies, cultural studies, and gender studies.

His doctoral dissertation, An Atlas Made of Tracing Paper: Contextual Routes to the Literary Strategy of Anu Kaipainen (2019), examines the works of Anu Kaipainen. During 2025–2026, he is working as a postdoctoral researcher (50%) in the Kone Foundation–funded project Margins of Memory: The Legacies of the Lapland War and Reconstruction.

His recent research focuses on affects as well as postmemory and family memory in Finnish fictional literature depicting the wartime experiences of women, children, and minorities

Leppihalme is one of the editors and contributors of Sota meissä: Lapin sodan kokemushistoriaa (eds. Outi Autti et al., Finnish Literature Society, forthcoming 2026) and is also one of the editors and contributors of Displaced Families, Dispersed Memories (eds. Johanna Leinonen et al., Helsinki University Press, forthcoming 2026). Together with Outi Autti, Leppihalme serves as a guest editor for a special issue of Elore (3/2026) on the memory cultures of wartime in Lapland. He is also the managing editor of the literary history project Suomen nykykirjallisuus 3.