CURRICULUM VITAE	

1. Full name and date

•	Pirjo Riitta Lyytikäinen
•	Female
•	November 30, 2017

2. Date and place of birth, nationality, current residence

•	10.10.1953 Helsinki
•	Finnish
•	Rakuniitynrinne 6 D, 01690 Vantaa, Finland

3. Education and degrees awarded 

•	Doctor of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finnish literature	15.12.1992
•	Licentiate in Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finnish literature  10.12.1989
•	Candidate in Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finnish literature  30.05.1986
•	Title of Docent in Finnish Literature, University of Helsinki	 10.10.1995

4. Language skills
•	Finnish (mother tongue)
•	English					excellent
•	French					very good
•	German					good
•	Swedish					good
•	Latin					fair
•	Italian					basic
•	Russian					basic

5. Current position
•	Professor of Finnish Literature, University of Helsinki	1.8.1998
6. Previous professional experience 
•	Senior Research Fellow, Academy of Finland	1.8.1994–31.7.1998
•	Acting Associate Professor, University of Helsinki 	1.8.1993–31.7.1994
•	Junior Assistant, Finnish Literature, University of Helsinki 1.1.1990–31.7.1993
•	Koneen Säätiö: 3-year grant for Doctoral dissertation		1987–1990

7. Research awards, leadership and supervision 
Research awards
•	University of Helsinki 3-year grants: The project Genre, Period, Text. 2002–2004
•	Finnish Academy, 1-year grant for Senior Scientists		2002–2003
•	Ministry of Education: The Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies.2007–2011
•	Finnish Academy, 3-year grant: The project Styles of Mimesis.2008–2010 
•	Finnish Academy, 1-year grant for Senior Scientists. 2008–2009
•	Ministry of Education: The Finnish Doctoral Programme for Literary Studies¸
grants for doctoral students. 2011–2014
•	Finnish Cultural Foundation, 1-year professor-pole grant	2014–2015
•	Finnish Academy, 4-year grant: Finnish Academy, 4-year grant: The project Literature and Emotions; subproject of the consortium The Literary in Life: Exploring the Boundaries between Literature and the Everyday	September 1, 2015 – August 31, 2019

Leadership 
•	Director of the Master Programme for Literary Studies 2017–2020
•	Board member, The Doctoral Programme for Philosophy, Arts and Society, University of Helsinki, 1.1.2014–31.12.2017
•	Director of the Finnish Doctoral Programme for Literary Studies, Academy of Finland  1.1.2007–31.12.2013
•	Member of the board in The Finnish Graduate School  of Literary Studies 1999–2006
•	The Finnish coordinator and supervisor in the international PhDNet Literature and Cultural Studies, a doctoral program of five European universities (Giessen, Stockholm, Lisbon, Bergamo, Helsinki) coordinated by Justus Liebig University Giessen. 12 students/3-year cycles 2008–2013 (Supervision 2008-2020).
•	The Finnish member of the board in the HERMES- summer school program with 10 universities from Europe and U.S. 2010-2013.

Supervision of doctoral dissertations 20 finished; 5 in progress.
Satu Grünthal, Välkkyvä virran kalvo. Suomalaisten kaunokirjallisten balladien motiivit, [Finnish Literary Ballads: themes and motifs]. SKS, Helsinki. 1997.
Juhani Sipilä, Maa luja, taivas korkia. Antti Tuurin Pohjanmaa-sarja [The Pohjanmaa: a novel-series by Antti Tuuri]. 2002.
Sari Salin, Hullua hurskaampi. Ironinen kahdentuminen Jorma Korpelan romaaneissa[Irony and Unreliable Narration in Jorma Korpela’s novels]. 2002.
Riikka Rossi, Le naturalisme finlandais. Une conception entropique du quotidien. Published by  SKS, Helsinki. 2007.
Sirke Happonen, Vilijonkka ikkunassa: Tove Janssonin muumiteosten kuva, sana ja liike. [Text, Image and Mouvement in Tove Jansson’s Moomin-books]. WSOY, Helsinki. 2007.
Minna Maijala, Passion vallassa. Hermostunut aika Minna Canthin teoksissa [Passions and the Neurotic Modernity in Minna Canth’s Fiction] Published by  SKS, Helsinki. 2008.
Johanna Mälkki, Mitä etevin runoteos. Dante Alighierin Jumalaisen näytelmän vastaanotto suomalaisessa kirjallisuusinstituutiossa 1851-2000 [The Reception of Dante’s Divine Comedy by the Finnish Literary Institutions 1851-2000]. SKS, Helsinki 2009.
Saija Isomaa, Heräämisten poetiikkaa: lajeja ja intekstejä Arvid Järnefeltin romaaneissa Isänmaa, Maaemon lapsia ja Veneh’ojalaiset. [Poetics of Awakening: Genres and Intertexts in Arvid Järnefelt’s novels Isänmaa Maaemon lapsia and Veneh’ojalaiset.] SKS, Helsinki 2009.
Paula Arvas, Rauta ja Ristilukki. Vilho Helasen salaposiisiromaanisarja [The Rauta –series in Cultural Context: Detective Novels by Vilho Helanen]. Helsinki University Press 2009.
Helena Ruuska Naisen identiteetti Marja-Liisa Vartion romaanissa Kaikki naiset näkevät unia [Female Identity in Marja-Liisa Vartio’s novel ’All Women Dream’] Helsinki University Press 2010.
Irma Perttula, Subjektiivinen groteski suomalaisessa kirjallisuudessa: Rakastunut rampa, Prins Eflam, Orjien kasvattaja ja Veljeni Sebastian [The Subjective Forms of Grotesque in Finnish Literature: Foor Case Studies]  Helsinki 2010.
Päivi Koivisto, Elämästä autofiktioksi: Lajitradition jäljillä Pirkko Saision romaanisarjassa [ From Life to Autofiction: the Case of Pirkko Saisio’s autobiographical novel-trilogy]. Helsinki University Press 2011.
Tuomas Juntunen, Juha Seppälän intertekstuaalinen poetiikka [The intertextual poetics of Juha Seppälä] Helsinki University Press 2012.
Hanna Karhu, Otto Mannisen Säkeiden käsikirjoitukset [Otto Manninen’s Poems in the Light of the Manuscripts] Helsinki University Press 2012
Suvi Ahola, Lukupiirit Suomessa  [Reading Groups in Finland], Helsinki University Press 2013.
Lieven Ameel, Moved by the City: Experiences of Helsinki in Finnish Prose Fiction 1889-1941. Helsinki University Press 2013.
	Toni Lahtinen  (University of Tampere), Maan höyryävässä sylissä: Luonto, ihminen ja yhteiskunta Timo K. Mukan tuotannossa [In the Arms of Mother Earth: Nature, Man, and Society in Timo K. Mukka’s works]. WSOY 2013.
Robert Vogt  (Justus Liebig University Giessen) Typologie und Theorie narrativer  2016
Antti Ahmala, Miten tulla sellaiseksi kuin on? Autenttisuus ja itsestä vieraantuminen Joel Lehtosen varhaistuotannossa Unigrafia: Helsinki 2016
Leena Mäkitalo,  Anna-Maija Raittilan runouden kristillisyydestä. Unigrafia: Helsinki 2016

8. Merits in teaching and pedagogical competence 
•	Responsible for the curriculum planning and the implementation of courses; Finnish Literature, HU, 2000–2017
•	Supervisor of around 200 completed Master’s degrees	1998– 2017

9. Honours 

•	Prize for science books,  Suomen tietokirjailijat [The association of Finnish Non-fiction Writers]. 25.10.2014.

10. Other academic and professional activities

•	Referee for Reviewal of the candidates for the Professorship of Finnish Literature at the University of Jyväskylä, 2010
•	Referee of the candidates for the Professorship of Finnish Literature at the University of Tampere, 2010
•	Referee for Reviewal of the candidates for the Professorship of Literature at the University of Oulu,  2007
•	Referee for Reviewal of the candidates for the Professorship of  Finnish Literature at the University of Turku, 2000
•	Referee for Docentship in Finnish Literature (Viola Parente-Capková) at the University of Turku, 2017.
•	 Referee for Docentship in English Literature (Pieter Vermeulen) at the University of Stockholm, 2013.
•	Referee for Docentship in Comparative Literature (Leena Eilittä) at the University of Helsinki, 2008.

•	Referee for 7 doctoral dissertations
•	Official Opponent for 4 doctoral dissertations 
•	Referee for 5 licentiate dissertations
•	Member of the dissertation committee, Robert Vogt, Tilly Klein 2015 University of Giessen, Germany.

•	Member of international peer evaluation committee of funding applications: HERA, European Research Council			2012
•	Member of the evaluation panel of literary studies, Finnish Academy 2008, 2010
•	Member of the art studies’ evaluation panel of 3-year grants, Univ. of Helsinki 2011

Elected memberships in scientific societies

•	International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Member of the Executive Council	  		2010–2013
•	Finnish Literary Research Society, Member of committee and vice chairperson		1992–1994
•	Finnish Literary Research Society, Chairperson	1997– 2000
•	Finnish Literary Society, Member of the Council	2000–2005
•	Finnish Literary Society, Member of  the Committee of Literature			2006–2015
•	Finnish Literary Society, Chair of  the Committee of Literature			2008–2015

•	Referee for the grants of Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth-foundation	2008–2017

•	The Yearbook of Literary Research Society, Editor in Chief		1995–1996
•	Member and Finnish Coordinator of the international advisory board preparing the History of  Nordic Literary Cultures to be published by ICLA 2003–2015
•	Member of the Editorial Board of Avain, the Review of Literary Research Society 2004–2014
•	Member of the Editorial Board of Palmenia-series of Helsinki University Press 2005–2012
•	Referee for  Scandinavian Studies 2012, 2014, 2016
•	Referee for Avain (the Review of Literary Research Society) 2005, 2006, 2011-2013, 2016
•	Referee for the Yearbook of Literary Research Society 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003–04
•	Referee for Finnish Literary Society’s scientific books 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013
•	Referee for Journal of Finnish Studies 2014, 2017
•	Referee for Acta Translatologica Helsingiensia 4/2017
•	Referee for Tiede ja Edistys 2000

	Invited keynote lectures abroad:

•	“The Kalevala and Finnish Cultural Memory” Ossian and the National Epics, CECC Lisbon 2010; 
•	“The Power of Allegory: Ima(gi)ning New Worlds”, in The Knowledge of Literature X. Bergamo University 2010; 
•	“Iterative Narration and Other Forms of Resistence to peripeties in Modernist Writing”, Turning Points, Univ. of Giessen 2010; 
•	 “Depicting and Inspiring Emotions in Literature”. Bergamo University 2013;
•	“Sickness unto Death: The Metaphysical Tropes of Malady in Huysmans and Nordic Decadence”, States of Decadence, Halden University, Norway June 2014.
•	“Exploring Emotions in the Cognitive Study of Literature”Cognitive Futures in the Humanities, June 2016, Helsinki.
•	“Sensing the End: Moods and Emotions in End Games “, End Games and Emotions. The Sense of Ending in Modern Literature and Art, to Tallinn August 2017.

Other invited lectures or lecture series

•	“Symbolismi ja dekadenssi Suomessa”. Guest lecture series  (20 h) at the University of Prague  8.11. - 13.11.1999.
•	“Postmodernismus in der Finnischen Literatur”. Guest lecture series (20h) at the University of Cologne 18.10.-31.10.2001, at the University of Vienna  2.–10.11.2002, and at the University of Greifswald 23.11.–5.12.2003
•	“Kullervo’s Curse: The Transgression Tradition in Finnish Literature”. Guest lecture in the series Finland’s Pasts ans Presents at the University of Washington, Department of Scandinavian Studies. Seattle. April 13, 2004
•	“Finnische Literatur der Gegenwart”. Guest lecture series (16h). University of Munich. June 7–17, 2005
•	“From Oral to Literary Culture. The Writing Down and Rewriting of Oral Poetry”. Guest lecture at the University of Wisconsin. Madison. October 19, 2005
•	“Transgression in Literature”. Plenary lecture. Foredrag på den XXVI: studiekonferanse i International Association for Scandinavian Studies (IASS), Turku 7.-12. august 2006.
•	“The Swan of Tuonela: Nordic Melancholy and Symbolist Poetics”, Invited lecture in the conference The North Paris 2012; 
•	“Latency as a Concept in Literary and Cultural Studies”. Master class lecture in the conference Latencies: Europe 1914-2014; Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture; The Catholic University of Lisbon. 1 Jul 2014
•	“The Swan of Tuonela: Modernized Mythology and the Union of Arts in Finnish Symbolism”, invited presentation in the symposium Music and the Nordic Breakthrough, School of Musicology, Oxford. 31 Aug 2015
•	"Emotion Effects in Literature: Written Emotions in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher". Invited presentation in the colloquium The arts, the emotions and mental states. University of Geneva, Geneva.10 Mar 2017
•	"Existential Feelings and Moods in Literature" A Thumos lecture; Thumos -talks: Lectures of the Thumos-group of the Centre Interfacultaire en sciences affectives 9 Mar 2017

10. Scientific and societal impact of research
•	Total number of publications 100, including 36 refereed scientific articles, 4 monographs, and 18 edited volumes. 

11. Positions of trust in society and other societal merits 
•	Alfred Kordelin foundation, member of the board		2016–2019
•	Alfred Kordelin foundation, chair of the section of literature		2015-
•	Alfred Kordelin foundation, member of the section of literature	2012-2020