Hanna Meretoja#
| Membership Number: | 5499 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.utu.fi/en/people/hanna-meretoja |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8243-6371 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/hanna.meretoja |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Professor of comparative literature (permanent), University of Turku
- 2019 - 2022 Honorary Research Fellow, School of Humanities, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
- 2019 - 2020 Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford (Exeter College & Oxford Centre for Life-Writing), UK
- 2015 Founding director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory, School of History, Culture and Arts Studies, University of Turku
- 2015 - 2016 Professor of comparative literature (fixed term), University of Turku
- 2013 - 2015 Professor of comparative literature (part-time), University of Tampere (January 2013–July 2014, 50%; August 2014–July 2015, 60%)
- 2013 - 2014 Visiting Professor, The American University of Paris
- 2013 - 2015 Senior lecturer (permanent) in comparative literature, University of Tampere
- 2012 - 2015 Postdoctoral research fellow in comparative literature, University of Turku
- 2007 - 2012 Research fellow in comparative literature, University of Turku
- 2008 (4 m.) Visiting Scholar, University of Uppsala
- 2004 (6 m.) Visiting Junior Fellow, University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle
- 2002 - 2003 Visiting Junior Fellow, University of Tübingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Narrative studies and narrative ethics
- Interrelations between literature, philosophy and history
- Literary theory and the philosophy of literary studies
- Philosophical and narrative hermeneutics
- Cultural memory studies and trauma studies
- Life-writing, illness narratives and medical humanities
- 20th and 21st-century narrative fiction in French, German and English
- Intersections between ethics and aesthetics
- Socio-critical dimensions of literature
- Study of subjectivity, identity and agency
Honours and Awards
- 2019 - 2022 Honorary Research Fellow, School of Humanities, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
- 2019 - 2020 Visiting Fellowship, Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK
- 2019 - 2020 Visiting Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK
- 2018 Early Career Award, American Education Research Association’s Narrative Special Interest Group, 2018 (awarded for significant contributions to interdisciplinary narrative studies)
- 2014 Research Accomplishment of the Year, School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies, University of Tampere, 2014 (awarded for founding the research centre Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative and for developing the interdisciplinary research environment at the university)
- 2011 Humanist Doctor of the Year, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Turku, 2011 (awarded for a doctor whose dissertation has had a particularly strong scholarly and societal impact)
