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Author: lotkah
My doctoral research focused on the complexity of white female identity in contemporary North American literature. After earning my PhD in comparative literature, I have been engaged in a multidisciplinary research project on ethics and storytelling, and collaborative project on affect theories and capitalism. In my post-doctoral project funded by the Finnish Academy , I examined narratives of past transgender lives circulated in the last fifteen years. The project stems from my longstanding interest in the potential of narratives to expand our ways of understanding and experiencing gender. Currently, I am a member of a research project (2017-2021) that studies gendered gun politics of the Texas state “Campus Carry” legislation. Using field work as transdisciplinary practice, the research team interrogates the ways in which campus communities experience, negotiate, and challenge the the effects of the gun legislation in everyday life. The project is conducted at the John Morton Center for North American Studies, University of Turku. In addition, I am planning a study on how art by transgender artists expresses and explores the relationship between creativity, embodiment, and gender in the age of cultural and technological transition. My teaching and research interests include transgender studies, contemporary Anglophone literature, films and art, narrative theories, affect theory, science and technology studies and queer theory. I am a board member of Society of Queer Studies in Finland (SQS). Together with Dr. Sari Irni, we lead Science, Embodiment and Transformation research group focusing on the knowledge production of lived experiences and bodies under the umbrella term trans* View all posts by lotkah