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
- Paradigms of Cyberculturalism in Post-postmodernity (2024) American Studies after Postmodernism Mehdi Ghasemi
(Book chapter (B2)) - Coda: Critique of Hybridity – Whither Hybridity? (2023) Echoes of Hybridity in Postmodern Literature Ghasemi Mehdi
(Book chapter (B2)) - Echoes of Hybridity in Postmodern Literature (2023) Engagements with Hybridity in Literature Ghasemi Mehdi
(Book chapter (B2)) - Engagements with Hybridity in Literature: An Introduction (2023) Kuortti Joel, Nyman Jopi, Ghasemi Mehdi
(Refereed scientific book or report (C1)) - ”Kirjallisuudella on voima liikuttaa meitä syvästi” (2023)
- Suomenopettajat : Suomi toisena kielenä -opettajat ry:n jäsenlehti
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - M.animal and M.other: A Noveramatry (2023) Ghasemi Mehdi
(Other (O2)) - Nice Ice: An Eco-postmodern Exploration of Tanya Tagaq’s Split Tooth (2023)
- Literary Geographies
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Toward Finnish Heterolinational Literatures: Challenges and Opportunities (2023)
- Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Post-postmodernism and the Emergence of Heterolinational Literatures (2022)
- Contemporary Aesthetics
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - A Study of Double Consciousness in Lauri Lemberg's St. Croix Avenue and Paula Ivaska Robbins' Below Rollstone Hill (2021)
- Immigrants and Minorities
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Gender and Work in Lauri Lemberg's St. Croix Avenue and Paula Ivaska Robbins' Below Rollstone Hill (2021)
- CEA Critic
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Hyperhybridism: Postmodernism is Old but Not Old Fashioned (2020) Movement and Change in Literature, Language, and Society Ghasemi Mehdi
(Book chapter (B2)) - A Farewell to the Earth and Kepler 438b: A Noveramatry (2019) Mehdi Ghasemi
(Published independent work of art (F1)) - Paradigms of Postmodern Democracies (2019)
- Sage open
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Replenishing and Recycling an Exhausted Hi|story in Lydia R. Diamond’s Voyeurs de Venus (2019)
- Journal of Literary Studies
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - An Equation of Collectivity = We + You in Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices (2018)
- Mosaic -Winnipeg-
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Finnish Russian Border Blurred: A Noveramatry (2018) Ghasemi Mehdi
(Published independent work of art (F1)) - A Study of Intersectionality in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Fucking A.” (2017)
- Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - A Study of Intersectionality in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Fucking A (2017) Mehdi Ghasemi
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - A Study of Womanism in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (2017)
- International Journal of Gender and Women's Studies
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))