Asko Nivala
PhD, Docent
aeniva@utu.fi +358 29 450 2204 +358 50 472 9650 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5416-9667 |
nineteenth-century Romanticism; philosophy of history; digital humanities
In 2015, I defended my doctoral dissertation at the Department of Cultural History, University of Turku. The theme of my dissertation was Friedrich Schlegel’s early Romantic philosophy of history. I spent the spring semester of 2017 as a visiting fellow in the Research Unit Historical Cultural Sciences in Mainz, Germany. In 2017–2022, I was a postdoctoral researcher with the project Romantic Cartographies. Lived and Imagined Space in English and German Romantic Texts, 1790–1840 (funding: TIAS, 2017–2019 and Academy of Finland, 2019–2022). In 2019, I was a visiting scholar in NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks research centre (Northeastern University) and in 2020 at the Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (Universität Stuttgart, Germany).
In 2022–2025, I will work in a senior researcher's position as a Collegium Fellow in Turku Institute for Advanced Studies with the project Artificial Intelligence Before Computers: The History of Romantic Computationalism (AICOM). Moreover, I will be the Principal Investigator in the research project Atlas of Finnish Literature 1870–1940 (Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden atlas 1870–1940, The Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Major cultural project grant 2022–2024).
My research focuses on nineteenth-century Romanticism in Germany, UK and USA. In 2015, I defended my doctoral dissertation on the themes of the Golden Age and the Kingdom of God in Friedrich Schlegel's early Romantic philosophy of history. A monograph based on that study was published with the title The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History (New York: Routledge 2017). In addition, I have studied the spatiality of thought and concepts, on which I co-edited the book Travelling Notions of Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe (New York: Routledge 2016) together with Hannu Salmi and Jukka Sarjala.
In my other publications and conference papers, I have studied metaphors, humour, games, cosmopolitanism and the grotesque during the age of Romanticism and in historiography in general. My other research interests include the theoretical discussion on digital humanities, posthumanism and new materialism. Related to this, I have co-authored the article "History and Virtual Topology: The Nineteenth-Century Press as Material Flow" (historein 7, no. 2, 2018).
During my TIAS fellowship, I will concentrate mainly on research, but I do supervise three doctoral students and deliver guest lectures.
- Extracting Geographical References from Finnish Literature: Fully Automated Processing of Plain-Text Corpora (2023)
- Journal of Computational Literary Studies
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The Construction of Space in English and German Literature 1790–1848: Geoparsing the Corvey Collection (2023)
- Literary Geographies
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Kulttuurihistoria, uusmaterialismi, posthumanismi ja digitaalinen humanismi (2022) Kulttuurihistorian tutkimus. Lähteistä menetelmiin ja tulkintaan Nivala Asko
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Using word vector models to trace conceptual change over time and space in historical newspapers, 1840–1914 (2022)
- DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Friedrich Schlegel and the Mystical Kingdom of God (2021) Mystik und Romantik. Rezeption und Transformation eines religiösen Erfahrungsmusters. Mit einem Themenschwerpunkt zu Jacob Böhme Nivala Asko
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Kreikan alue Friedrich Hölderlinin Hyperionissa (2021)
- Niin & näin
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Enlightenment, Revolution and Melancholy (2020) The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World Nivala Asko
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - The reuse of texts in Finnish newspapers and journals, 1771–1920: A digital humanities perspective (2020)
- Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Eurooppalainen romantiikka ja Kalevala (2019)
- Kalevalaseuran Vuosikirja
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Onko tekoälyä olemassa? (2019)
- Niin & näin
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Spreading News in 1904. The Media Coverage of Nikolay Bobrikov's Shooting (2019)
- Media History
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Tekstien uudelleenkäyttö suomalaisessa sanoma- ja aikakauslehdistössä 1771–1920. Digitaalisten ihmistieteiden näkökulma (2019)
- Historiallinen Aikakauskirja
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Tiedostamaton saksalaisessa romantiikassa (2019)
- Niin & näin
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Återanvändningen av text i den finska tidningspressen 1771–1853 (2018)
- Historisk Tidskrift För Finland
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Bookreview: Alexander Jakovljević. Schillers Geschichtsdenken: Die Unbegreiflichkeit der Weltgeschichte. Berlin: Ripperger & Kremers Verlag, 2015. 381 pp. ISBN: 978-3-94-399971-6. (2018)
- Goethe Yearbook
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Digitaalisten ihmistieteiden materiaalisesta perustasta – Haastattelussa Jussi Parikka (2018)
- Niin & näin
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - History and Virtual Topology: The Nineteenth-Century Press as Material Flow (2018)
- Historein
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Mitä on digitaalinen humanismi? (2018)
- Niin & näin
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism / Literature and the Cult of Personality: Essays on Goethe and His Influence / E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Orient: Romantic Aesthetics and the German Imagination (2018)
- European Romantic Review
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Applying BLAST to Text Reuse Detection in Finnish Newspapers and Journals, 1771–1910 (2017) Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2017 Workshop on Processing Historical Language Aleksi Vesanto, Asko Nivala, Heli Rantala, Tapio Salakoski, Hannu Salmi, Filip Ginter
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4))