Mehdi Ghasemi
PhD; Adjunct Professor and University Teacher
mehgha@utu.fi : B335 |
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
- A Study of Intersectionality in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Fucking A.” (2017)
- Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships
- A Study of Intersectionality in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Fucking A (2017) Mehdi Ghasemi
- 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
- How I Became a W Finn: A Noveramatry (2017) Ghasemi Mehdi
- Flight to Finland: A Noveramatry (2016) Ghasemi Mehdi
- Quest/ion of Identities in African American Feminist Postmodern Drama: A Study of Selected Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks (2016) Ghasemi Mehdi
- Quest/ion of Identities in Suzan-Lori Parks's Post-revolutionary Drama (2016)
- Journal of American Studies
- Wanted: Debt or Alive in Suzan-Lori Parks's FA (2016)
- Journal of Black Studies
- A Study of ‘Quad Ps’ in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus (2015)
- Journal of Black Studies
- Peace in Pieces: A Postmodern Study of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus (2015)
- Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
- Sleep, Death’s Twin Brother: A Quest for Postmodern Identities in The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (2015)
- Orbis Litterarum
- Gender Equality: A Case Study of Janaki Sooriyarachichi’s Picture Book The Flying Train (2014)
- Libri et Liberi
- History Plays as/or Counterhistory Plays – A Study of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Major Plays (2014)
- Marang: Journal of Language and Literature
- Revisiting History in Hayden White’s Philosophy (2014)
- Sage open
- Literature, a Mirror to Culture and Language Modules in EFL Classrooms (2011) Proceedings Mehdi Ghasemi
- Story Retelling – A Course Book for English Students (2010) Mehdi Ghasemi
- 455 Pairs of English Confusing Words – Every English Student Should Know (2009) Ghasemi Mehdi
- British or American English Differences – From A to Z (2009) Ghasemi Mehdi
- Theoretical English Grammar (2009) Ghasemi Mehdi