Hanna Meretoja - Curriculum Vitae#
Education
- PhD (17/12/2010) and MA (15/3/2001), Comparative Literature, University of Turku
Current and previous positions
- Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Turku, 8/2016 - present (Department Chair)
- Honorary Research Fellow, School of Humanities, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, 2019 - 2022
- Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, 8/2019 - 6/2020
- Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory, University of Turku, 6/2015 - present
- Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Tampere, 1/2013 - 7/2015
- Visiting Professor, The American University of Paris (8/2013 - 7/2014)
- Visiting Scholar, University of Uppsala (3 - 6/2008), University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle (1 - 6/2004) and University of Tübingen (DAAD, 8/2002 - 7/2003)
Leadership and grants
- Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Turku, 1/2017 - 8/2019
- Deputy Head of the School of History, Culture and Arts Studies, University of Turku, 2015 - 2016
- Head of the Degree Programme in Literary Studies (University of Tampere, 2014 - 2015)
- Vice President of the Finnish Literary Research Society 2011 - 2014
- A total of €734,630 research funding: 16 grants from Finnish foundations/institutions and 4 international grants, including:
- co-PI of the Academy of Finland consortium “Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory” (2018 - 2022): €280,000
- PI of “#NeverAgain: Teaching Transmission of Trauma and Remembrance through Experiential Learning” (EC’s European Remembrance Programme), 2018 - 2019: €98,280
- Emil Aaltonen Foundation, 2012: €200,000, PI of the interdisciplinary project “Ethics of Storytelling and the Experience of History in Contemporary Arts” (2013 - 2016)
- PI of the research network “Narrative and Memory: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics” (2017 - 2019), Nordic Council of Ministers (€30,000), and Co-PI of “Interpreting Violence: Narrative, Ethics, Hermeneutics” (NOS-HS/Nordic Research Councils, 450,000 SEK, 2018 - 2019)
- Founding Director of the research centres SELMA (University of Turku, June 2015 - present) and Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies, University of Tampere (Sep 2014 - July 2015)
- Officially appointed supervisor of 22 PhD students, 75 MA students and 11 postdocs
- 38 keynote/invited lectures in international conferences (including the keynote of the Narrative Matters conference in Victoria, Canada, June 2016, and in Atlanta, May 2020)