
Tuulikki Kurki
Professor
School of Humanities, Finnish Language and Cultural Research
tuulikki.kurki@uef.fi | +358 50 546 3142
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/.
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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 -
Materialized Trauma Narratives of Borders Crossings
Kurki, Tuulikki. Folklore 83 8: 81-104. 2021 -
Kadonnut kinnas ja muita tarinoita 360 näyttely
Kurki, Tuulikki; Tanttu, Tarja; Saarelma, Päivi; Heino, Iiris; Kellokoski, Reetta-Mari; Saarikorpi, Rami; Vuomajoki, Sami. 2020 2020 -
Rajojen ja liikkumisen kokemusten jäljillä - Kadonnut kinnas ja muita tarinoita.
Kurki, Tuulikki. Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti avain 17 2: 86-89. 2020 -
Kytevän trauman jäljillä: kokemuksia toiseuttamisesta ja ulkopuolelle sulkemisesta
Tarja Tanttu ja Tuulikki Kurki / Vuorovaikutuksen tutkimuksen päivät 2020 18. - 19.9. verkkokonferenssi, Abstraktikirja. 2020. 2020 -
Materialized Narratives of border: articulting the unspeakable through everyday objects
Kurki, Tuulikki / A Research Agenda for Border Studies. 2020. 2020 -
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 -
Multiperspectival approaches to boundaries
Kurki, Tuulikki / Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture Theory. 2020. 2020 -
Engaging the New Mobilities Paradigm in the Context of Finland
Habti, Driss; Kurki, Tuulikki. 2019 2019 -
Engaging the New Mobilities Paradigm in the Finnish Context
Habti, Driss; Kurki, Tuulikki. Journal of Finnish studies 22 1&2: 3-26. 2019