Kirsi Kanerva
kirsi.kanerva@utu.fi +358 29 450 2784 +358 50 323 5715 Koskenniemenkatu 4 Turku |
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/ )
- Learning to Feel? An Essay on Death, Sex and Tricksterism in Todd Phillips’s Joker (2019) (2020)
- WiderScreen
- Beings of Many Kinds: Introduction for the Theme Issue ‘Undead’ (2019)
- Thanatos - Suomalaisen Kuolemantutkimuksen Verkkojulkaisu
- Female Suicide in Thirteenth-Century Iceland: The Case of Brynhildr in Völsunga saga (2019)
- Viator
- Johdatus saagakirjallisuuteen (2019) Aalto Sirpa, Kanerva Kirsi
- Kuoleman historian ääriviivoja (2019) Suomalaisen kuoleman historia Pajari Ilona, Miettinen Riikka, Kanerva Kirsi
- Suomalaisen kuoleman historia (2019) Ilona Pajari, Jussi Jalonen, Riikka Miettinen, Kirsi Kanerva
- Thanatos theme issue "Undead" (2019) Kanerva Kirsi, Koski Kaarina, Mayburd Miriam
- The Practice of Repentance in Medieval Iceland: Indigenous Ideas and Christian Influences (2019)
- Suomen kirkkohistoriallisen seuran vuosikirja
- Restless dead or peaceful cadavers? Preparations for death and afterlife in medieval Iceland (2018) Dying prepared in medieval and early modern northern Europe Kanerva Kirsi
- From powerful agents to subordinate objects? The restless dead in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Iceland (2017) Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed Kanerva Kirsi



