Aino-Kaisa Koistinen

I am a poet-researcher, freelance writer, and writing instructor. I have an MA in literary studies (University of Oulu, Finland), a PhD in contemporary culture studies (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland), and the title of Docent in media culture (University of Turku, Finland). My research interests include research in/as writing, feminist posthumanism, ecocriticism and ecofeminism, speculative fiction and the politics of imagination, monster theory, and the interconnections of feminist pedagogy, artist pedagogy, and environmental pedagogy. I have studied, for example, affective responses to violent fiction, art as cultural sustainability, re-imaginations of humanity in science fiction, poetry as feminist and posthumanist knowledge production, and environmental writing. I am constantly in the process of educating myself more on feminist, queer, crip, and decolonial theories and perspectives. In my artistic research, I focus on writing. At the moment, I am particularly interested in writing as a feminist collective activity in which more-than-human actors also take part.

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