Person
Ulla Savolainen is an Academy of Finland post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. She holds a PhD in Folklore Studies (University of Helsinki, 2015). Her research interests include oral history and memory studies; folklore; narrative theory; vernacular literature; relationship of memory and narrative with space, place, matter and body; and experiences of migration, diaspora and transnationality. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the life writings of former Karelian child evacuees in Finland and the poetics of life writings and reminiscing as a genre of vernacular expression. She has also researched oral histories of internments of German and Hungarian citizens in Finland in 1944–1946 and analyzed the issue of compensation of past injustice. Her ongoing research project ”Memory Unchained” (2017–2020) focuses on (autobiographical) literature related to experiences of Ingrians (a historical ethnic minority of Russia) from the viewpoint of cultural memory. Savolainen is the chair of the Oral History Network FOHN.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or special issue › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis › Monograph
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of research journal
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of research journal
Activity: Membership types › Membership or other role in national/international committee, council, board
Ulla Savolainen (Recipient), 27 Oct 2017
Prize: Prizes and awards
01/09/2017 → 31/08/2020
Project: Research project › _Research
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