
TUULIKKI KURKI
Professor
I work as a Professor in cultural studies (specialising in research on cultural change) at the School of Humanities, University of Eastern Finland. My recent research has focused on borders and borderlands from the point of view of culture, literature, and objects, and my latest monograph addresses Finnish language literature in Russian Karelia, ”Rajan kirjailijat: Venäjän Karjalan suomenkieliset kirjailijat tilan ja identiteetin kirjoittajina” (Trans. Writers of the Border: Finnish Speaking Writers of Space and Identity in Russian Karelia, SKS, 2018). My recent research projects include "Traumatized Borders: Reviving Subversive Narratives of B/Order, and Other" (Academy of Finland, 2016-20), and "A Lost Mitten and Other Stories: Experiences of Borders, Mobilities, and New Neighbor Relations" (Kone Foundation, 2018-2022). Visit the virtual exhibition of the project "A Lost Mitten and Other Stories" here: https://www.360panorama.fi/360KadonnutKinnas/.
Contact info
Organization
Philosophical Faculty, School of Humanities
tuulikki.kurki@uef.fi
Phone
+358 50 546 3142
Keywords
Teaching Activities
Research groups and research projects
Research groups - UEF
Links
Publications
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Kurki, Tuulikki. 2021. Materialized Trauma Narratives of Borders Crossings Folklore 83 8: 81-104. 2021
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From Heroism to grotesque: the invisibility of border-related trauma narratives in the Finnish-Russian borderlands. Kurki, Tuulikki / Border images, border narratives: The political aesthetics of boundaries and crossings. 2021. 2021
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Kadonnut kinnas ja muita tarinoita 360 näyttely. Kurki, Tuulikki; Tanttu, Tarja; Saarelma, Päivi; Heino, Iiris; Kellokoski, Reetta-Mari; Saarikorpi, Rami; Vuomajoki, Sami. 2020 2020
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Kurki, Tuulikki. 2020. Rajojen ja liikkumisen kokemusten jäljillä - Kadonnut kinnas ja muita tarinoita. Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti avain 17 2: 86-89. 2020
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Kytevän trauman jäljillä: kokemuksia toiseuttamisesta ja ulkopuolelle sulkemisesta. Tarja Tanttu ja Tuulikki Kurki / Vuorovaikutuksen tutkimuksen päivät 2020 18. - 19.9. verkkokonferenssi, Abstraktikirja. 2020. 2020
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Materialized Narratives of border: articulting the unspeakable through everyday objects. Kurki, Tuulikki / A Research Agenda for Border Studies. 2020. 2020
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Minority literature in the Russian borderlands: Finnish-lanaguage literature in Russian Karelia. Kurki, Tuulikki / Ways of being in the world: Studies on minority literatures. 2020. 2020
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Multiperspectival approaches to boundaries. Kurki, Tuulikki / Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture Theory. 2020. 2020
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Kurki, Tuulikki. 2019. Kynän ja kuokan sankari Heikki Meriläinen. Kainuun Sanomat. 29.07.2019. s.A3 2019
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Kurki, Tuulikki; Kaskinen, Saija. 2019. Mobility Reports: Artistic Representations of Mobility Experiences Journal of Finnish studies 22 1&2: 27-46. 2019