Aino Liira
PhD
aeliir@utu.fi Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku |
paratextuality; material philology; Middle English; late medieval manuscripts; early printed books
I defended my PhD at the University of Turku in 2020 and currently work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of English (School of Languages and Translation Studies). My research interests are situated at the intersection of philology, historical linguistics, textual scholarship, and the study of material books (manuscripts and printed books). I am particularly interested in the phenomena of para- and metatextuality, the material and visual aspects of written texts, and multilingual practices.
In 2021 (March-December) I held the part-time position of the co-ordinator for Langnet, a national network for doctoral programmes in languages and linguistics in Finland, at Åbo Akademi.
In 2022-2023 I work as a postdoctoral researcher in the project Early Modern Graphic Literacies (EModGraL; PI Professor Matti Peikola), funded by the Adacemy of Finland (2021-2025).
- Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books (2025)
- Renaissance Studies
- Visual Chronologies in Early Modern English Historiography (2025) Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English Liira, Aino; Peikola, Matti; Kaartinen, Marjo
- Developing a classification model for graphic devices in early printed books (2023)
- Studia Neophilologica
- Licentia testandi – paavillinen lupa papeille testamentata omaisuuttaan (2023)
- Mirator
- Esipuhe (2021) Kieliä ja kohtaamisia Turun historiassa. Näkökulmia monikielisyyteen Kolehmainen Leena, Liira Aino, Nummila Kirsi-Maria
- Johdanto - kielinäkökulma Turun historiaan (2021) Kieliä ja kohtaamisia Turun historiassa. Näkökulmia monikielisyyteen Kolehmainen Leena, Liira Aino, Nummila Kirsi-Maria
- Kieliä ja kohtaamisia Turun historiassa. Näkökulmia monikielisyyteen (2021) Kolehmainen Leena, Liira Aino, Nummila Kirsi-Maria
- Abbreviations and standardisation in the Polychronicon: Latin to English and manuscript to print (2020) The Multilingual Origins of Standard English Honkapohja Alpo, Liira Aino
- Paratextuality in Manuscript and Print : Verbal and Visual Presentation of the Middle English Polychronicon (2020) Liira Aino
- Paratextual presentation of Christopher St German’s Doctor and Student 1528–1886 (2020) Message and Medium : English Language Practices Across Old and New Media Varila Mari-Liisa, Ruokkeinen Sirkku, Liira Aino, Peikola Matti
- Material Approaches to Exploring the Borders of Paratext (2019)
- Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation
- Material paratext studies: Redefining the concept of text in light of manuscript evidence (2019) Working on it: Phd Research at the Department of English, University of Turku Sirkku Ruokkeinen, Aino Liira
- Kansainvälistä yhteistyötä: humanistisen tiedekunnan vierailijaprofessorit (2018)
- Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti
- Viestinnän verbaaliset ja visuaaliset keinot – tutkimusta varhaisten englanninkielisten tekstien ominaisuuksista (2017)
- Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti
- Mitä yhteistä on maailman vihatuimmalla fontilla ja vasikannahkapergamentilla? (2016)
- TUCEMEMS (Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies) : blog
- Linguistics Meets Book History: Seeking New Approaches (2015) Sirkku Ruokkeinen, Aino Liira, Sara Norja
- Turku #PoPsymp 2014 – International symposium of linguistics and book history (2014)
- EnglanTY
