Mikko Lehtonen
Address: Department of Literature and the Arts, 33014 University of Tampere, Finland
Phone: 358-3-2156273 (w), 358-3-2133273 (h)
Fax: 358-3-2158850
E-mail: tlmile@uta.fi

Curriculum vitae

Posts held

• Assistant professor, Comparative Literature, University of Tampere, 1990-1991, 1993-1997, 1998-1999
• Associate professor, Comparative Literature, University of Tampere, 1991-1993, 1997-1998
• Docent, Comparative Literature, University of Tampere, from 1995 on.
• Director, Media Culture, University of Tampere, from 1999 on.
• Senior Researcher, Academy of Finland, from 1999 on.
• Acting Professor of Media Culture, University of Tampere, from 1st of March 2002.

• MA, University of Tampere, 1989
• Lic. Phil., University of Tampere, 1991
• PhD, University of Tampere, 1994

A. Books

• Kirjallisuuden kategoriasta kirjoittamisen käytäntöihin, 1989 (a monograph on Raymond Williams)
• Kyklooppi ja kojootti, 1994 (The Cyclops and the Coyote. Subject in Modern Cultural and Literary Theories)
• Pikku jättiläisiä, 1995 (Little Giants. Cultural Construction of Masculinity)
• Merkitysten maailma, 1996, 2nd printing 1998, 3rd printing 2000, 4th orinting 2002. (The World of Meanings. Guidelines for cultural analysis of texts)
• Tutkainta vastaan, 1998 (Against the Grain. Dialogues between Literary and Cultural Studies)
• The Cultural Analysis of Texts, Sage 2000
• Post scriptum, Vastapaino 2001. (Book in the age of mediatization)
• Syyskuun yhdennentoista merkitys, Vastapaino 2001. (The Cultural Significance of the 11th of September)

• 50 articles in Finnish
• The Epistemological Base of Modern Aesthetics, in Sven-Eric Liedman (ed.): "Deutscher Idealismus." Papers presented at a Symposium on German Idealism in November 1991. Arachne: texter från institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria vid Göteborgs universitet, nr. 8, Göteborg 1993.
• On 'Cultural' and 'Studies' in 'Cultural Studies', in Eva Hemmungs Wirtén & Erik Peurell (eds.): 'The Interpretation of Culture and the Culture of Interpretation. Publications from the Section for Sociology of Literature at the Department of Literature, Uppsala University Nr 36, Uppsala 1997.
• In no man's land. Theses on intermediality. Nordicom Review 4/2000.

• Two edited books, one on the state of literary theory, another on cultural study of masculinities.

• Translations into Finnish of texts by Raymond Williams (Marxism and Literature), Terry Eagleton (Literary Theory), Stuart Hall (one overall volume and one volume on Hall's texts on identity), Lawrence Grossberg (a selection of key texts), Johan Fornäs (Cultural Theory and Late Modernity) and Malcolm Bradbury (Mensonge).

• C. 1000 hours undergraduate and graduate courses.
• C. 70 postgraduate and conference papers and talks in Finland.
• Supevisor of c. 40 MA theses and five doctoral dissertations.
• External examinor of five Lic. Phil. theses and five doctoral dissertations.

• Member of the organizing committee of Crossroads In Cultural Studies -conferences (1996, 1998).
• Member of the editorial board of European Journal of Cultural Studies from 1997 on.
• Member of the editorial board of Cultural Studies from 2000 on.

• On the Epistemological Basis of Aesthetics at a conference on German Idealism at the University of Gothenburg in 1991.
• Modern Scientific Subject and Its Object at 'The Experience of Theory' conference at the University of Gothenburg in 1993.
• On 'Cultural' and 'Studies' in 'Cultural Studies' at 'The Interpretation of Culture and the Culture of Interpretation' conference at the University of Uppsala in 1996.
• Metaphors We Consume By at 'Objects of Belonging' conference at University of Western Sydney, Nepean in 1997.
• The Language of Nature and the Language of Author - Two Discourses of Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) at the conference of APEAA in Sintra (Portugal) in 1998.
• Raymond Williams as a Critic of Modern Thought at 'Crossroads in Cultural Studies' conference in Tampere in 1998.
• Raymond Williams and intermediality at 'Crossroads in Cultural Studies' conference in Birmingham in 2000.
• Reading, Culture, Subject at 9th international congress of Fennougrists at Tartu (Estonia) in 2000.
• Seven Theses On Theory at 5th conference of ESSE in Helsinki in 2000.