Teaching

I teach literature, with a focus on feminist, queer, intersectional, and crip approaches to literary studies (see below), as well as multidisciplinary perspectives such as narrative medicine and medical humanities.

Since 2018, I have been teaching the module Art, Health, and Wellbeing (Taide, terveys ja hyvinvointi) in the medical humanities program Asklepios at the University of Turku (currently in collaboration with Päivi Kosonen). Since 2022, I have also taught the course Medicine and Literature (Lääketiede ja kirjallisuus) with Laura Karttunen at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology at Tampere University.

In the “Words for Care: Literature, Healthcare, and Democracy” project (Kone Foundation 2024-2026), my colleagues and I develop a narrative medicine reading group model for social and healthcare professionals who speak Finnish as a first or second language.

Resources

Feminist, queer and intersectional approaches to literary studies (an open access syllabus in Finnish)

This syllabus was created for an introductory course in feminist, queer, and intersectional literary studies at the University of Helsinki. It is designed for undergraduate and graduate students in Finnish literature and comparative literary studies, as well as anyone interested in these topics. The syllabus includes key and suggested readings for 12 weeks, along with sample preparation tasks. It is available for download as a PDF below (in Finnish).

Norm-breaking bodies: queer and crip approaches to literary representations of illness and disability (an open access syllabus in Finnish)

This syllabus was created for an advanced course in feminist, queer, and intersectional literary studies at Tampere University. It is designed for undergraduate and graduate students in Finnish literature and comparative literary studies, as well as anyone interested in these topics. The syllabus includes key and suggested readings for 12 weeks, along with sample preparation tasks. It is available for download as a PDF below (in Finnish).

Principles for a feminist, intersectional and queer classroom

I use these principles (PDF in Finnish below) in my classroom to create a learning environment which promotes open dialogue and understanding about the social structures that shape us and the spaces we inhabit.