Mehdi Ghasemi received his PhD from the Department of English at the University of Turku. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tampere and the Finnish Literature Society (SKS). Now he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of English at the University of Turku. He is also a fiction writer, writing his books in the hybrid genre of “noveramatry” (a combination of novel, drama and poetry). He has already published five scholarly books, four fiction books, one literary anthology, and more than twenty scholarly papers in peer-reviewed, high-quality journals, including Orbis Litterarum, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Literary Studies, European Journal of American Studies, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, SAGE Open, Immigrant and Minorities, The CEA Critic and Contemporary Aesthetics.