Marja Sorvari
Professor
School of Humanities, Philosophical Faculty
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Marja Sorvari is Professor of Russian Literature and Culture, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus. She specializes in post-Soviet Russian literature from the perspectives of gender, cultural memory and multilingualism. Her Ph.D. dissertation examined Russian women’s autobiographical texts of the 1990s. Her current research focuses on multi- and translingual literature, displacement and (post)memory, and the reception of Russian literature in Finland. She has published two monographs, many peer-reviewed articles and co-edited several collections of articles.
Publications
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Feministinen liike 2010-luvun Venäjällä: Inna Perheentupa: Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia. An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022. 192 s. ISBN 978-1-5292-1696-7.
Sorvari, Marja. 2024. Idäntutkimus. 31: 101-103 B1 Non-refereed journal articles -
Miellyttäviä kohtaamisia? Venäjänkielisten naiskirjailijoiden vastaanotto Suomessa (1945–1982)
Sorvari, Marja. 2024. abstract -
Migration (and) Literature from the Post-Soviet South: The Mobility of Memory in Dina Rubina's On the Sunny Side of the Street and Olga Grjasnowa's All Russians Love Birch Trees
Sorvari, Marja. Teoksessa: Adair, Gigi; Fasselt, Rebecca; McLaughlin, Carly(toim.) , 2024. The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature. s. 424-436. Routledge A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Paratekstianalyysi suomennoskirjallisuuden tutkimusmenetelmänä
Havumetsä, Nina; Kemppanen, Hannu; Sorvari, Marja; Vottonen, Erja. 2024. Mikael : Kääntämisen ja tulkkauksen tutkimuksen aikakauslehti. 17: 58-72 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
The reception of post-Soviet Russian fiction through the peritexts of Finnish translations
Sorvari, Marja. 2024. Perspectives: studies in translation theory and practice. [Epub ahead of print 29 May 2024]: 1-14 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Mediating (Post)memory in Multilingual and Multicultural Writing: The Autobiographical Texts of Katharina Martin-Virolainen and Anna Soudakova
Sorvari, Marja. Teoksessa: Saramo, Samira; Savolainen, Ulla(toim.) , 2023. The Legacies of Soviet Repression and Displacement: The Multiple and Mobile Lives of Memories. s. 152-167. Routledge A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s Writing
Sorvari, Marja. 2022. Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing. . Palgrave Macmillan C1 Book -
Neuvostoliitto jälkimuistin sukupolven silmin: Maria Stepanovan Muistin muistolle
Sorvari, Marja. Teoksessa: Helle, Anna; Koivunen, Pia(toim.) , 2022. Neuvostoliitto muistoissa ja mielikuvissa. s. 188-205. Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Ulla-Liisa Heino
Sorvari, Marja. 2022. Ajan kohina. 17: 50-55 E1 Popularised article, newspaper article -
Narratives of Displacement: On Embodied Experience of Migration in Ulitskaya, Lindén, and Palei
Sorvari, Marja. 2021. Contemporary womens writing. 2020; 14: 350-366 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research