Kati Launis
Specializing in
- Finnish 19th-century women writers
- Discourses on social class and gender in Finnish literature from 1840’s to 1920’s
- Finnish working-class writers
Personal website
Some recent publications relevant for NEWW
- "Towards More Equal Nation: Russian-Finnish Author Marie Linder (1840-1870)", in Women Telling Nations. Eds. Amelia Sanz, Francesca M. Scott and Suzan van Dijk. Amsterdam/New York, Rodopi (2013, in press).
- "From Italy to the Finnish Woods: The Rise of Gothic Fiction in Finland", in Gothic Topographies: Language, Nation Building and 'Race'. Eds. P.M. Mehtonen & Matti Savolainen. UK, Ashgate, 2013, p. 169-186. [About Marlie Linder and Charlotta Falkman].
- "'I want to be free!' Marie Linder's Novel En qvinna af vår tid as an Early Comment on Women´s Rights", in Women’s Voices. Female Authors and Feminist Criticism in the Finnish Literary Tradition. Ed. by Päivi Lappalainen & Lea Rojola. Studia Fennica: Litteraria 2. Helsinki, Finnish Literature Society, 2007.
- Kerrotut naiset. Suomen ensimmäiset naisten kirjoittamat romaanit naiseuden määrittelijöinä [Narrated Women. The First Novels Defining Womanhood Written by Women in Finland]. Helsinki, Finnish Literature Society, 2005.
Realized or planned activities/publications in NEWW-context
- Participating, as member of Working Group 4, in COST Action IS 0901 “Women Writers In History” (2009-2013); cf. COST website.
- Contributing to COST-WWIH workshop Turku 24-26 May 2010.
- Postdoctoral Research project “From estate to class: discourses on class in Finnish literature” (2009-2011).
- Study concerning the literature of the 19th and turn of the 20th century, conducted in two research projects financed by the Academy of Finland: Feminization in Nineteenth-Century Finnish Literature and the Kone Foundation: The Imagined People: Transformations in the Finnish Self-Image.
- Participation in the Kone project Cultural Meanings of Illness in Modernising Finland.
- Participation in the Women Telling Nations: 1st Milestone COST conference, Madrid 11-13 November 2010
E-mail
- klaunis[at]utu.fi
SvD, September 2013
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