Mehdi Ghasemi
PhD; Adjunct Professor and University Teacher
mehgha@utu.fi Office: B335 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3414-5318 |
Postmodernism; Post-postmodernism; Literature of Immigration; African American Literature; Finnish American Literature; Feminism; Ecocriticism; Arctic Literature; Creative Writing
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 six scholarly books, five fiction books, one literary anthology, and thirty 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, Literary Geographies and Contemporary Aesthetics.
Mehdi Ghasemi has more than 12 years of teaching experience at university level, teaching technical courses to BA and MA students, majoring in English Language and Literature. He has passed 100 credits in Higher Education Pedagogy at the University of Turku, University of Tampere, Aalto University and TAMK. At the University of Turku, he teaches:
Literary Theory
Fiction and Poetry
Victorian Literature
Academic Reading and Writing
Proseminar and BA Thesis
North American Literature of the 2000s and 2010s
Introduction to Literary Studies
Literary Theory Workshop
- Climate conflict in Clive and Dirk Cussler’s action thriller Arctic DriftToward Finnish Heterolinational Literatures: Challenges and Opportunities (2025)
- Polar JournalKirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Navigating the Virtual Realm: Cybercultural Portrayals in Post-postmodern FictionPost-postmodernism and the Emergence of Heterolinational Literatures (2025)
- AvantContemporary Aesthetics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Amerikansuomalainen Kirjallisuus Avaa Näkökulmia MaahanmuuttoonA Study of Double Consciousness in Lauri Lemberg's St. Croix Avenue and Paula Ivaska Robbins' Below Rollstone Hill (2024)
- Suomenopettajat : Suomi toisena kielenä -opettajat ry:n jäsenlehtiImmigrants and Minorities
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Paradigms of Cyberculturalism in Post-postmodernity (2024) American Studies after Postmodernism Ghasemi, Mehdi
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Coda: Critique of Hybridity – Whither Hybridity? (2023) Echoes of Hybridity in Postmodern Literature Ghasemi Mehdi
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Echoes of Hybridity in Postmodern LiteratureHyperhybridism: Postmodernism is Old but Not Old Fashioned (2023) Engagements with Hybridity in Literature Ghasemi Mehdi
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Engagements with Hybridity in Literature: An IntroductionA Farewell to the Earth and Kepler 438b: A Noveramatry (2023) Kuortti Joel, Nyman Jopi, Ghasemi Mehdi
(C1 Refereed scientific book) - ”Kirjallisuudella on voima liikuttaa meitä syvästi”Paradigms of Postmodern Democracies (2023)
- Suomenopettajat : Suomi toisena kielenä -opettajat ry:n jäsenlehtiSage open
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - M.animal and M.other: A Noveramatry (2023) Ghasemi Mehdi
(Other publication) - Nice Ice: An Eco-postmodern Exploration of Tanya Tagaq’s Split Tooth (2023)
- Literary Geographies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2023)
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - (2022)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2021)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Gender and Work in Lauri Lemberg's St. Croix Avenue and Paula Ivaska Robbins' Below Rollstone Hill (2021)
- CEA Critic
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 2020Movement and Change in Literature, Language, and Society Ghasemi Mehdi
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - (2019) Mehdi Ghasemi
(F1 Published independent work of art) - (2019)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Replenishing and Recycling an Exhausted Hi|story in Lydia R. Diamond’s Voyeurs de Venus (2019)
- Journal of Literary Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2018)
- Mosaic -Winnipeg-
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Finnish Russian Border Blurred: A Noveramatry (2018) Ghasemi Mehdi
(F1 Published independent work of art)