Marja Sorvari
Professor
School of Humanities, Philosophical Faculty
marja.sorvari@uef.fi | +358 50 598 6428
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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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 -
Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s Writing
Sorvari, Marja. 2022. Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing. . Palgrave Macmillan -
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 -
Ulla-Liisa Heino
Sorvari, Marja. 2022. Ajan kohina. 17: 50-55 -
Narratives of Displacement: On Embodied Experience of Migration in Ulitskaya, Lindén, and Palei
Sorvari, Marja. 2021. Contemporary womens writing. 2020; 14: 350-366 -
Rakkaudenosoitus suvulle. Maria Stepanova: Muistin muistolle. Romanssi. Suom. Mika Pylsy. Helsinki: Siltala, 2020. 446 s. ISBN 978-952-234-575-2
Sorvari, Marja. 2021. Idäntutkimus. 28: 56-58 -
"To Tell the Truth as I Understand It". Lived Religion, Post-Secularism and Gender in Liudmila Ulitskaia's Daniel Stein, Interpreter (Reprint)
Sorvari, Marja. Teoksessa: Stock, Jennifer(toim.) , 2020. Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, & Other Creative Writers. s. 280-291. Cengage Gale -
Multilingual Russian Writers in Finland: Zinaida Lindén and Polina Kopylova
Sorvari, Marja. 2020. Multiethnica. 40: 9-22 -
Ylirajaiset venäläiset nykykirjailijat Suomessa
Sorvari, Marja. 2020. Idäntutkimus. 27: 22-37 -
Lasten ja perheiden ääni kuuluu uudessa muuttoliikkeen tutkimuksessa
Sorvari, Marja. 2019. Sukupuolentutkimus. : 74-76