Jarkko Toikkanen
PhD
Docent in English Philology
Biography
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Research interests
- experience
- intermediality
- horror
- rhetoric
- medium
- close reading
- philology
Current research projects
- Intermedial Experience and the New Philology (monograph, 2022–2023)
- 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 (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)
Teaching (2019–)
Introduction to Literature in English
Research Literature and Culture
Workshop in Close Reading
Intermedial Experience of Horror
Intermedial Experience of Horror, part 2
Bachelor’s Seminar and Thesis