Jarkko Toikkanen

PhD
University lecturer, Docent in English Philology

Languages and Literature
Faculty of Humanities

Titles

Docent in English Philology, Tampere University

 

Keywords

experience, intermediality, horror, rhetoric, close reading, three-tier model of mediality

 

Teaching (2019–)

Introduction to Literature in English

Research Literature and Culture

Workshop in Close Reading

Psychoanalysis and Literature

Intermedial Experience of Horror

Intermedial Experience of Horror, part 2

Bachelor’s Seminar and Thesis

Master's Seminar and Thesis

 

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7845-8615

 

Current research project

Multimodal and Intermedial Technologies

Shaping the North through Multimodal and Intermedial Interaction (article collection, eds. Alarauhio, Räisänen, Toikkanen, & Tumelius, 2022, Palgrave Macmillan)

Intermedial Experience and Three-tier Model of Mediality (monograph, 2022–2024)

Intermedial Experience, Rhetorical Devices, and Medium-specificity (INEX)

 

Previous research projects

The Literary in Life: Exploring the Boundaries between Literature and the Everyday (Academy of Finland, 2015–2019, https://research.uta.fi/lili/)

Kokemuksen tutkimus VI. Kokemuksen käsite ja käyttö (article collection, eds. Toikkanen & Ira A. Virtanen, 2018, Lapland University Press)

The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures (monograph, 2013, Palgrave Macmillan)

The Grotesque and the Unnatural (article collection, eds. Markku Salmela & Toikkanen, 2011, Cambria Press)

The Break of Paul de Man (PhD thesis, 2008, University of Tampere)

 

Research interests

Researcher information

18

publications

Contact information

E-mail

Jarkko.Toikkanen@oulu.fi

Phone number

00 358 50 4083887

Visiting address

TÄ312