
ANNA-LEENA TOIVANEN
Academy Research Fellow
Academy Reserach Fellow 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 2019-2020.
I am a comparative literature scholar interested in adopting a mobility studies approach to literary studies. I currently work as Academy Research Fellow and my project, "The Poetics of Afroeuropean Mobilities in Francophone African Literatures" (project number 330906), examines how Francophone African literatures from the mid-20th century to the present represent forms of human physical travel (pedestrianism, automobility, aeromobility, maritime travel, travel in public transport etc.) in the wider context of different Afroeuropean mobilities: student mobilities, tourism and exploration, professional mobilities, criminal mobilities, return travel, and clandestine travel. The project develops analytical tools for reading mobilities in literature. My book "Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures" was published in March 2021 (Brill): https://brill.com/view/title/57650
Full list of publications in my CV.
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Organization
School of Humanities, Finnish Language and Cultural Research
anna-leena.toivanen@uef.fi
Phone
+358 50 476 3016
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Publications
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Hauthal, Janine; Toivanen, Anna-Leena. 2021. European peripheries in the postcolonial literary imagination Journal of postcolonial writing 57 3: 291-301. 2021
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Toivanen, Anna-Leena. 2021. On the move in the (post)colonial metropolis: The Paris Metro in Francophone African and Afrodiasporic fiction Urban studies [Epub ahead of print 6 Nov 2021]: 1 - 17. 2021
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Zombie travels: Middle Passage journeys and clandestine migrant mobilities in contemporary Francophone African and Afrodiasporic fiction. Toivanen, Anna-Leena / Cultural Mobilities Between Africa and the Caribbean. 2021. 2021
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Toivanen, Anna-Leena; Taylor, Joanna E. 2021. A "Migration Novel" Goes Mobile: Novel Review Transfers 11 1: 143-147. 2021
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Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures. Toivanen, Anna-Leena. 2021 2021
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Toivanen, Anna-Leena. 2021. Francophone African literary representations of the Paris Metro USJ Blog 8.11.2021: -. 2021
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Toivanen, Anna-Leena. 2021. Afroeuropean peripheral mobilities in francophone African literatures Journal of postcolonial writing 57 3: 358-371. 2021
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Toivanen, Anna-Leena. 2021. Aeromobilities of diasporic returnees in Francophone African literatures Mobilities 16 4: 597-611. 2021
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Toivanen, Anna-Leena. 2020. Aeromobilities of Student Newcomers in Francophone African Fiction Transfers 10 2-3: 1-20. 2020
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Toivanen, Anna-Leena; Kuortti, Joel. 2020. Etälukutaitoa Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti avain 17 2: 3-5. 2020