Anni Calcara

My name is Anni Calcara and I am a doctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland. I graduated with a Master of Arts degree in 2018 with a major in English language and Culture. I started my doctoral studies in January 2019 in the doctoral program of Social and Cultural Encounters . I am working on a dissertation focusing of examining Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins’ Left Behind franchise as an ideological and sociological phenomenon.

I have received several personal grants to fund my doctoral research. I have received grants  from the Finnish Concordia Fund, Gustav B. Thordén’s Karjalan lahjarahasto (Karelia Fund), and the Finnish Cultural Foundations North Carelia Fund. In addition, I have worked as a fixed-term university teacher of English language and culture at the University of Eastern Finland in 2019-2021 and 2022-2023. At the moment, I am focusing on my doctoral dissertation as a grant researcher.