ANNA-LEENA TOIVANEN

Senior Researcher, CULTCHANGE

Senior researcher and docent in postcolonial literary studies, Marie Skłodowska-Curie alumni (Individual Fellowship, Université de Liège), editor-in-chief (with Prof. Joel Kuortti) of the Finnish literary studies journal Avain

I am a comparative literature scholar interested in literary mobility studies, and my on-going research project focuses on the poetics and politics of Afroeuropean mobilities in Francophone African literatures from the mid-20th century to the present. My background is in postcolonial and African literary studies, and my current work contributes to these fields from the perspective of literary mobility studies and, to a lesser extent, travel writing studies. I am currently working on a monograph entitled "Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African Diasporic Literatures."

Full list of publications in my CV.

Contact info

Organization

School of Humanities, Finnish Language and Cultural Research

Email

anna-leena.toivanen@uef.fi

Phone

+358 50 476 3016

Keywords

african literature cosmopolitanism francophone african literatures literary mobility studies mobility mobility studies postcolonial studies travel writing travel writing studies