Matti Peikola
matpei@utu.fi +358 29 450 3361 +358 50 564 1825 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9004-8926 |
Middle and Early Modern English; textual scholarship and book history (manuscript/print); historical pragmatics and material philology; Wycliffite studies: vernacular books, texts and discourses associated with the Lollard movement (especially the Wycliffite Bible, Wyclif's Wycket); early New England textual and scribal practices, especially Salem witchtrial documents
I was appointed Professor of English at Turku in 2016 after acting in that position for 2014–2016. In 2013–2014, I worked as Professor of English at the University of Helsinki, and in 2010 as Substitute Professor (Lehrstuhlvertreter) in English and Book Studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. In 2010, I received funding from the Academy of Finland for an Academy Research Fellowship. During that period, I was also a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, and at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. I received my PhD at the University of Turku in 2000 and held various research and administrative positions there in the 2000s, including two periods as postdoctoral researcher funded by the Academy of Finland. As part of my PhD project, I spent a year as a visiting graduate student at Oxford University (Wolfson College) in the mid-1990s.
My research focuses on textual communication and linguistic variation in the past. I am interested in how written texts are transmitted, transformed and contextualised linguistically, materially and visually by their producers and consumers for different communicative purposes. My work is situated in philology and historical (discourse) linguistics, textual scholarship (codicology, bibliography, textual criticism) and book studies. The materials I have been working on include especially late medieval and early modern English religious texts and legal documents. My recent research deals with the ’framing’ and ’packaging’ of early handwritten and printed texts by means of paratext and metadiscourse. I collaborate with Dr. Peter J. Grund (Yale University) on research into early colonial writing literacies, with a focus on the writers of the Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt. I am the PI of the Early Modern Graphic Literacies (EModGraL) research project, funded by the Adacemy of Finland for 2021-2025 (site of research: School of Languages and Translation Studies, University of Turku, decision number 340005).
- 'And after all, myn aue-marie almost to the ende': Pierce the Ploughman's Crede and Lollard expositions of the Ave Maria (2000)
- English Studies
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Discourse perspectives on early English : A project (1999) Proceedings from the 7th Nordic Conference on English Studies Hiltunen Risto, Skaffari Janne, Peikola Matti, Scheinin Minna, Tanskanen Sanna-Kaisa, Valle Ellen, Wårvik Brita
(Unrefereed conference proceedings (B3)) - English studies: Methods and Approaches (1998) Peikola Matti, Tanskanen Sanna-Kaisa
(Editorship of a professional journal, book or conference proceedings (D6)) - Getting started with medieval English manuscript studies (1998) English Studies: Methods and Approaches Peikola Matti
(Article in a professional research book (D2)) - "Whom clepist þou trewe pilgrimes?" : Lollard discourse on pilgrimages in The Testimony of William Thorpe (1996) Essayes and Explorations: A ‘Freundschrift’ for Liisa Dahl Peikola Matti
(Book chapter (B2))