PhD, senior researcher of comparative literature (School of History, Culture and Arts Studies), and trained biblio/poetry therapist and bibliotherapeutic educator.

Member of SELMA (Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory) and part of the Turku-based team in the Academy of Finland consortium (2018–2022) Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory.

Current Research Project Counter-Narratives of Cancer. Shaping Narrative Agency (Research Council of Finland, former Academy of Finland) 2023-2027. 

I have studied autobiographical literature and the genre history of the autobiography
from antiquity and the Middle Ages to the modern and late modern era. As
a bibliotherapist, my work focuses on therapeutic writing and
therapeutic reading. In addition to my individual  clients, I host bibliotherapeutic developmental groups in
different communal settings. I am also interested in the theoretical
aspects related to bibliotherapy, and I am keenly interested in
constructing a more delicate and critical bibliotherapeutic
reading method that can be applied on a more general basis in health and
care-related work. My most recent publications in this area include
“Creative Autobiography. From Self-knowledge to the Teaching of Writing”
(2015) and “Towards Therapeutic Reading. Part I: Identity Work: Growth and Development through Reading” (2018). 

Bibliotherapy, autobiographical literature