Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa

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 Jyväskylä, Finland), and the title of Docent in media culture (University of Turku, Finland). My research interests include: writing as artistic research and artistic research in writing, feminist posthumanism, ecocriticism and ecofeminism, cultural sustainability, speculative fiction and the politics of imagination, monster theory, and the interconnections of feminist pedagogy, artist pedagogy, and environmental pedagogy. My work is often transdisciplinary. 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 questions of accessibility and eguity. At the moment, I am particularly interested in writing as a feminist collective activity in which more-than-human actors also take part.