Publications and Presentations
Publications
2023
Joutseno, Astrid. 2023. “Childhood Trauma and the Musical In-Between in Memoirs by Astrid Swan and Dory Previn.” – Christina Garrigós, Marika Ahonen (eds), Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History and Life-Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 23-39.
Kosonen, Päivi. 2023. “Omaelämäkerta, muistelmat ja autofiktio tietokirjallisuuden rajatapauksina.” Ida Henritius, Olli Löytty & Anne Mäntynen (toim.), Tietokirjallisuuden lajit ja rajat. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.
Meretoja, Hanna. 2023. “Hermeneutic Awareness in Uncertain Times: Post-Truth, Narrative Agency, and Existential Diminishment.” – Hanna Meretoja & Mark Freeman (eds), The Use and Abuse of Stories: New Directions in Narrative Hermeneutics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 55-85.
2024
Joutseno, Astrid. 2024. “Säveltaiteilijat kotioloissaan: Kerttu Wanne, Astrid Joutseno ja 1930-luvulla pilkahteleva outous”, SQS Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen seura, Queeria elämää kertomassa, 18 (1-2), pp. 19–38. https://doi.org/10.23980/sqs.146456
Joutseno, Astrid. 2024. ”Grieving in the Everyday: Metastatic Cancer, Life Writing and the Grief of the Dying.” – Anders Juhl Rasmussen and Morten Sodemann (eds), Narrative Medicine: Trauma and Ethics. pp. 27–36. Wilmington: Vernon Press.
Kinnunen, Eevastiina, Meretoja, Hanna & Kosonen, Päivi. 2024. Applying the approach of narrative agency: A dialogue between theory, reading group practices, and analysis of participants’ experiences. – Anna Ovaska, Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar & Laura Karttunen. (eds), Special Issue Applied Narratology. Narrative Inquiry. Online first.
Meretoja, Hanna. 2024. “The Pandemic as a Crossroads: Problematizing the Narrative of War.” – Martin Dege and Irene Strasser (eds), Narrative in Crisis: Reflections from the Limits of Storytelling. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Meretoja, Hanna. 2024. “Dialogical Love: Literary Attachment, Attentive Engagement, and Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts.” – Rita Felski and Camilla Swartz (eds), Love, Etc. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 211–223.
Meretoja, Hanna 2024. “An Elegy for Not-Knowing: Narrative Dialogicality in Muriel Barbery’s L’Élégance du hérisson.” – Helena Duffy and Avril Tynan (eds), Trauma, Ethics, Hermeneutics: Essays in Honour of Colin Davis. Oxford: Legenda, 198–216.
Meretoja, Hanna 2024: Die Nacht der alten Feuer. Trans. Stefan Moster. Hamburg: Mare Verlag.
Meretoja, Hanna & Swan, Astrid 2024: “Kun ystäväsi sairastuu syöpään, älä sano hänelle näitä asioita.” Eeva.fi. https://www.eeva.fi/jutut/syopasiskot-kolumni
Cancer Sisters. 2024. Astrid Joutseno/Swan & Hanna Meretoja, Syöpäsiskot -podcast https://www.eeva.fi/jutut/syopasiskot-podcast
2025
Meretoja, Hanna 2025. “Illness Trauma, Life-Writing, and Pandemic Storytelling.” – Jan Alber, Deborah De Muijnck & Jessica Jumpertz (eds), Pandemic Storytelling. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 57-82.
Meretoja, Hanna 2025. “On Rereading: Revisiting Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones.” – Colin Davis & Lykke Harmony Alara Guanio-Uluru (eds), Narrative Ethics. Oslo: Novus, 129-145.
Presentations
2023
20/9/2023. Hanna Meretoja: “Memory, Distance, Imagination: Annie Ernaux and the Interplay between the Intimate and the Distant”. Memory Moves Workshop, Ghent, Belgium.
1/12/2023. Hanna Meretoja: “Counter-Narratives of Cancer: Shaping Narrative Agency”. French-Finnish Workshop on Counter-Narratives, Paris, France.
2024
4/1/2024. Hanna Meretoja: “The Critical Potential of Literature in the Midst of the Storytelling Boom”. Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Philadelphia (and online), USA.
2/2/2024. Hanna Meretoja: “The Potential of Reading Groups in Shaping Cultural Memory of the Shoah”, Public Memory and the Shoah, The American University of Paris, Paris/France.
21/3/2024. Päivi Kosonen: “Conditions and Limits of Therapeutic Reading.” The Talk-Together -seminar series: Cultural Health and Well-Being. University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
27/3/2024. Hanna Meretoja: “The Pandemic as a Crossroads”, Narrative in Crisis Book Launch Event, New York (and online).
19/4/2024. Hanna Meretoja: “Metanarrativity and the Potential of Narrative Medicine to Strengthen Narrative Agency”, Narrative 2024 Conference, Newcastle, UK.
17/5/2024. Hanna Meretoja. “A Hermeneutics of Dialogical Understanding in the ‘Post-Truth’ Era”, Updating the Interpretive Turn: A Book Symposium (online).
23/5/2024. Eevastiina Kinnunen: “Kertomusten kirjo kirjallisuusterapeuttisessa ja luovassa lukupiirityöskentelyssä.” The Finnish Literary Research Society’s annual conference: Kirjo – Spektrum – Spectrum, Jyväskylä, Finland.
25/5/2024. Eevastiina Kinnunen & Päivi Kosonen: “Kerronnallisen toimijuuden sanataidemenetelmä.” Kirjallisuusterapiaohjaajakoulutus, Tampereen kesäyliopisto, Tampere, Finland.
12/6/2024. Hanna Meretoja: “Fragmented Life‐Writing in Counter‐Narratives of Cancer”, Fragmented Lives: IABA World 2024 Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland.
12/6/2024 Astrid Joutseno/Swan: “Life Writing from the Fragmentary Queer Archive.” IABA International Conference, Iceland 12.6.-15.6.
13/6/2024 Astrid Joutseno/Swan & Christina Garrigos, Abigail Gardner, Angel Chaparro and Marika Ahonen: “Fragments of Life in Women in Rock Memoirs” -panel, IABA Conference, Iceland.
10/7/2024. Hanna Meretoja: “Narrative Agency and the Sense of the Possible” (Keynote), 4th International Possibility Studies Conference, University of Cambridge, UK.
13/7/2024. Astrid Joutseno/Swan: “Tarinoita surusta”, Volter Kilpi Kustavissa -kirjallisuusviikko, Finland.
20/8/2024. Hanna Meretoja: “Hermeneutic Literary Ethics and Counter-Narratives of Cancer” (Keynote), What Remains? Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis, Stockholm.
2/10/2024. Astrid Joutseno/Swan ja Susanna Sonninen: “Syöpähoitajien merkitys potilaille”, Suomen sairaanhoitajien päivät, Messukeskus, Helsinki, Finland.
4/10/2024. Astrid Joutseno/Swan: “Cancer Influencers, Digital Life Writing & the Grief of the Dying”, Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife -conference 3.-5.10.2024 University of Helsinki, Finland.
4/10/2024. Eevastiina Kinnunen: “Narrative agency and narrative well-being in bibliotherapy research.” Encounters, Paths, and Challenges in Troubled Times. 1st European Biblio/Poetry Therapy Conference. October, 4-5, 2024. Budapest, Hungary.
5/10/2024 Päivi Kosonen: “Narrative Agency Oriented Bibliotherapy Work with Cancer Patients.” Encounters, Paths, and Challenges in Troubled Times. 1st European Biblio/Poetry Therapy Conference, 4.-5.10.2024, Budapest, Hungary.
8/10/2024. Hanna Meretoja: “Analyzing data from narrative agency reading groups”, Public Memory and the Shoah II, The American University of Paris, Paris, France.
11/10/2024. Astrid Joutseno/Swan Keynote presentation “Kuolevan surusta,” The Finnish Death Studies Association, autumn seminar in Helsinki, Finland.
24/10 and 25/10/2024. Astrid Joutseno/Swan, author interviews in the Helsinki Book Fair, Finland.
8/11/2024. Hanna Meretoja & Eevastiina Kinnunen: ”Epävarmuus syöpätarinoissa.” Insecurity and Uncertainty in Literature and Arts. University of Turku, Finland.
11/12/2024 Astrid Joutseno/Swan, “Tracing the Grief of the Dying”. Grief workshop, SELMA, University of Turku, Finland.