Heidi Mikkola
PhD
hmmikk@utu.fi |
wildlife documentary; film studies; ecomedia studies; posthumanism; human-animal studies; environmental humanities; technologies
Heidi Mikkola is a postdoctoral researcher in Media Studies. Her research focuses on audiovisual culture, human–animal studies, and the environmental humanities.
My PhD dissertation explored the audiovisual aesthetics of wildlife documentaries and their engagement with multispecies agencies. My research centers on the relationships between humans, nonhuman animals, environments, and technologies.
Kurssi: Ei-inhimillinen taiteen ja kulttuurin tutkimuksessa, syksy 2024
- Ecologies of wildlife modes : envisioning more-than-human environments in documentary moving image aesthetics (2025) Mikkola, Heidi
- Encounters with the Insect World: Care and Human – Insect Relationships in Wildlife Documentaries (2024) Human–Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks Mikkola, Heidi
- In the wings of the dove: bird's-eye view and more-than-human gaze in the wildlife documentary series Earthflight (2020)
- Studies in Documentary Film
- Luontodokumentit muokkaavat mielikuviamme merestä (2020)
- Suomen Luonto
- Movements beyond human: Ecological aesthetics and knowledges in underwater wildlife documentaries (2018)
- Trace: Finnish Journal for Human-Animal Studies
- Ihmisten ja eläinten rajoilla (2016)
- Trace: Finnish Journal for Human-Animal Studies
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