My short stories in English:A portrait of Markku "G" Soikkeli?
I used to be a teacher and researcher of Finnish literature at the Department of Art Studies (in the University of Tampere and also in the Univ. of Turku).
Lately (2007-2009) I've been working as a free-lance writer, doing both fictional and non-fictional books (and trying to get them published). Right now I'm once again at my old department (Univ. of Tampere) and for the spring period (2011) the professor of Finnish Literature.
I have no idea where will I be in next 5... 10... 50 years...I have taken my M.A. degree and licenciate degree at the university of Tampere during the years 1990-1992. My doctoral dissertation was published by SKS during the autumn 1998. The previous papers for the degrees were dealing with the tradition of pastoral and rural epics of Finnish literature, and the dissertation was a gender-approach to the Finnish lovenovels.
My other research interests are film criticism, hypermedia, gender research, and also myth criticism.
"Local Knowledge" (2003)
"Longing for Mars" (2008)
The publisher Burning Bridge is a kind of
literary agent and recommendator for my short stories.
A tiny example of my research interests is this article "The man who was overlooked in the battle of the sexes" (2005).
My homepage (=To the lighthouse)