Hannu K. Riikonen#
| Membership Number: | 4026 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1997 - present Full Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Helsinki
- 1994 - 1997 Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University Helsinki
- 1979 - 1993 Acting Associate Professor, Associate Professor and Acting Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Turku
- 1978 - 1993 Reader of Comparative Literature, University Helsinki
Fields of Scholarship
- History of translations
- Literary Modernism, esp. Pound, Joyce, the Finnish Torchbearers Group
- History of Learning, esp. H. G. Porthan, history of aesthetics in Finland
- Greek and Roman literature
- Classical tradition
- Finnish and Scandinavian literature
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- 2010 Member of the Finnish Society of Science and Letters
- 2008 Silver medal of the University of Helsinki
