Staff

Sirkku Aaltonen
Professor, Head of Discipline

Special Interests:

• Representations of gendered speech
• Anglicization of student discourse
• Translation of Finnish drama into English
• Language, multilingualism and identity

Degrees:

• KTM University of Vaasa
• FL University of Joensuu
• FT University of Joensuu
• Docent, University of Tampere

E-mail: sirkku.aaltonen(a)uwasa.fi

Kristiina Abdallah (1.8.2011-31.7.2012)
Acting University Lecturer

Caroline Enberg (1.1.2012-29.2.2012)
PhD Student

William Goymer
Lecturer

Special Interests:

• American studies
• Literature
• Film and Media Theory and Criticism (Silent Cinema)
• Tradition of Essay Writing in English
• America in The Cold War
• Notions of Obscenity and the Forbidden Image

Degrees:

• BA Hons in English: UEA
• MA in American studies: King's College, London

E-mail: wgo(a)uwasa.fi

Maj-Britt Höglund
PhD Student

Special Interests:

• Media discourse
• Descriptions of women in the glossies
• Stance in editorials and commentary
• Reporter’s voice in news stories

Professional qualifications:

• Journalist’s training
• Authorized translator from French into Swedish

Degrees:

• FM University of Helsinki
• Master’s thesis on the linguistic level of difficulty in two English language and two Swedish language newspapers, a comparative study
• FL University of Vaasa
• Licentiate Thesis (2007): 'Fun, Fearless Females.' Descriptions of the Cosmo Girl in the Editorials of Cosmopolitan UK.
• PhD thesis in progress: Cracks in the Make-Up. Portraits of the "Cosmo girl" in Cosmopolitan UK Feature Stories

E-mail: mbhog(a)uwasa.fi

Tuija Luokkakallio
Acting Lecturer (Language Centre)

Special Interests:

• Translation studies
• Business English

Degrees:

• FM, University of Vaasa
• Master's Thesis: 'Culture specificity in Finnish Tarzan translations'
• PhD thesis in progress: 'Translating the Image of Mika Waltari for the American Market'

E-mail: tluo(a)uwasa.fi

Gerald Porter
Professor Emeritus

Special interests:

• Oral studies
• Cultural studies
• Popular literature
• Post-colonial literature

Degrees:

• M.A Hons in English: University of Oxford
• FL University of Umeå
• FD University of Umeå
• Doscent University of Umeå

E-mail: gepo(a)uwasa.fi

Jen MacArthur
Lecturer (Language Centre)

Degrees:

• M.Sc.
• M.Edu.

E-mail: jmca(a)uwasa.fi

Tiina Mäntymäki
University Lecturer

Special interests:

• Cultural studies
• Popular culture: crime fiction, film
• Gender theory
• Academic writing

• Teacher's qualification for English and Swedish, University of Tampere

Degrees:

• FM University of Tampere
• FD University of Linköping

Email: tman(a)uwasa.fi

Nestori Siponkoski (1.1.2012-31.12.2013)
PhD Student, HOPS contact

Special Interests:

• Translation studies
• Translation and popular music

Degrees:

• FM University of Vaasa
• Master's thesis: 'Where is Vuokatti?' Proper Names as Culture-Specific References in Two English Translations of Aleksis Kivi's Seitsemän veljestä.
• PhD thesis in progress: Disintegration of Authorship in Finnish Shakespeare Translation

E-mail: nessip(a)uwasa.fi

Johannes Sumuvuori
Acting Lecturer

Special Interests:

• Contact Linguistics
• Code-switching Studies
• English influence on Finnish student discourses

Degrees:

• FM Universty of Vaasa

E-mail: johannes.sumuvuori(a)uwasa.fi

Simone Sundqvist
Acting Lecturer

Special Interests:

• Literary Studies
• Translation Studies

Professional qualifications:

• Teacher’s qualification for English, Åbo Akademi University

Degrees:

• FM University of Vaasa

E-mail: sisu(a)uwasa.fi

Jukka Tiusanen (1.1.2012-31.12.2012)
Acting Lecturer

Special Interests:

• James Joyce, Jonathan Swift
• Eighteenth-century Literature
• Allegory
• Victorian Literature

Professional qualifications:

• Teacher's qualification for English and Latin: University of Helsinki

Degrees:

• FK, English, University of Helsinki
• M.A. and Ph.D., English, UCLA

E-mail: jukka.tiusanen(a)uwasa.fi