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).
- Kontrolli, kerettiläisyys, kirjakauppa: Reformaation tekstien eurooppalaisia puitteíta (2016) Pohjoinen Reformaatio Peikola Matti
(Book chapter (B2)) - Manuscript Paratexts in the Making: British Library MS Harley 6333 as a Liturgical Compilation (2015) Discovering the Riches of the Word: Religious Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Peikola Matti
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Vanhan kokoelman käsikirjoitukset (2015) Kirjoista kokoelmaksi. Kansansivistystä ja kansainvälisyyttä Turun kaupunginkirjastossa 1800-1900-luvuilla Matti Peikola, Mari-Liisa Varila
(Book chapter (B2)) - A Late Fifteenth-Century Dominical Sermon Cycle Edited from Bodleian Library MS E Musaeo 180 and Other Manuscripts. Edited by Stephen Morrison. 2 Vols. Pp. C + 662. Early English Text Society Original Series, 337, 338. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012 for 2011). ISBN: 9780197265116. (2014)
- Medieval Sermon Studies
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Manuscript Studies and Codicology – Theory and Practice (2014) Matti Peikola, Merja Kytö
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Signing the Diabolical Pact: Aspects of Supernatural Written Communication in Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, 1692-1693 (2014) Material Moments in Book Cultures: Essays in Honour of Gabriele Müller-Oberhäuser Matti Peikola
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - The vagaries of manuscripts from the Salem witch trials: An edition of four (re-)discovered documents from the case against Margaret Scott or Rowley (2014)
- Studia Neophilologica
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Guidelines for consumption: Scribal ruling patterns and designing the mise-en-page in later medieval England (2013) Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 1350-1550 : Packaging, Presentation and Consumption Peikola Matti
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Pragmatics on the Page: Visual Text in Late Medieval English Books (2013)
- European Journal of English Studies
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Tables of lections in manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible (2013) Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible Peikola Matti
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Supplicatory voices : genre properties of the 1692 petitions in the Salem witch-trials (2012)
- Studia Neophilologica
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Copying space, length of entries, and textual transmission in Middle English tables of lessons (2011) Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of their Texts Matti Peikola
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - The Sanctorale, Thomas of Woodstock's English Bible, and the Orthodox Appropriation of Wycliffite Tables of Lessons (2011) Wycliffite Controversies Peikola Matti
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Jäljittelyä vai jäljentämistä? Professori Ericus Achreliuksen englanninkieliset gratulaatiot Turun Akatemiassa 1640-1660 -luvuilla (2010)
- Auraica: Scripta A Societate Porthan Edita
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The philological track (2009) Tracks to Mastering English Hiltunen Risto, Peikola Matti, Skaffari Janne
(Article in a professional research book (D2)) - Aspects of mise-en-page in manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible (2008) Medieval Texts in Context Peikola Matti
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Trial discourse and manuscript context: Scribal profiles in the Salem withcraft records (2007)
- Journal of Historical Pragmatics
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Lollard(?) production under the looking glass: The case of Columbia University, Plimpton Add. MS 3 (2006)
- Journal of the Early Book Society
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Congregation of the elect : Patterns of self-fashioning in English Lollard writings [Lectio præcursoria] (2001)
- Neuphilologische mitteilungen
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - "How fair Aurora smiles at Aura's lovely shore" : English panegyric in Academia Aboensis (2001) English in Zigs and Zags: A Festschrift for Marita Gustafsson Peikola Matti
(Book chapter (B2))