Kirsi Kanerva
kirsi.kanerva@utu.fi +358 29 450 2784 +358 50 323 5715 Koskenniemenkatu 4 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2926-9751 |
I am a cultural historian specialized in Nordic cultural and mental history. In my previous research projects, I have studied the history of mind and emotions in medieval Scandinavia, the restless dead in medieval Icelandic saga sources, and the history of suicide in medieval Scandinavia, as well as the agency and social networks of the Swedish-speaking population in rural eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Finnish Southern Ostrobothnia.
My current research deals with nightmares among the Swedish-speaking population in pre-industrial nineteenth and early twentieth-century Finland. For more information, see the project "Northern Nightmares 1400-2020" (https://blogs.helsinki.fi/northernnightmares/ )
- Kumma ja tunteet (2017) Mielen rajoilla. Arjen kummat kokemukset Kanerva Kirsi
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Powerful Agents to Subordinate Objects? The Posthumously Restless Dead in Medieval Iceland (ca. 1200–1400) (2017) Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed Kanerva Kirsi
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Itsemurha keskiajan Skandinaviassa (2016)
- Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Kirkon, kruunun ja yhteisön intresseissä – Itsemurha 1600-luvun Ruotsissa (2016)
- Thanatos - Suomalaisen Kuolemantutkimuksen Verkkojulkaisu
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Ljós och eldr i liminala rum. Eldens och ljusets betydelser i Grettis saga på 1300-talets Island (2016)
- Historisk Tidskrift För Finland
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Editorial: Images of Afterlife (2015)
- Thanatos - Suomalaisen Kuolemantutkimuksen Verkkojulkaisu
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Having no Power to Return? – Suicide and Posthumous Restlessness in Medieval Iceland (2015)
- Thanatos - Suomalaisen Kuolemantutkimuksen Verkkojulkaisu
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Muinaista menneisyyttä etsimässä. Saagakäännöksiä ja riimututkimusta Ruotsin suurvalta-ajalta (2015) Kirjoista kokoelmaksi. Kansansivistystä ja kansainvälisyyttä Turun kaupunginkirjastossa 1800–1900-luvuilla Kirsi Kanerva
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Porous Bodies, Porous Minds. Emotions and the Supernatural in the Íslendingasögur (ca. 1200–1400) (2015) Kanerva Kirsi
(G5 Article dissertation ) - Disturbances of the Mind and Body – Effects of the Living Dead in Medieval Iceland (2014) Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe Kanerva Kirsi
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)



