In recent years I have studied literary contexts, the relation between mimesis (literary representation) and genre, especially in realist fiction and science fiction, imagination in literature, literary studies and teaching, plotless novels, the linguistic turns in the humanities, addressivity and hypothetical expressions in poetry, the relation between rhetorical figures and narratives, as well as various manifestations of unreliability in fiction.

When I bump into a ball and it heads in a direction I could not foresee;

At the University of Helsinki I have been in charge of literary research and teaching in English (1997-), Head or Associate Head of the Department of English (later the English Unit) (2001–2011), Deputy Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Arts (2010-) and Director of the research community Interfaces between Language, Literature and Culture (2010-).

• 1st Prize in the youth organization Svensk Ungdom’s Writing Competition 1980

• ASLA-Fulbright Scholarship (UC Berkeley) 1985–1986

• The Finnish Critics’ Association’s Prize 1998

• The Oskar Öflund Foundation Prize 2006

• Member of The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters 2010

• Honorary Member of The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland 2013

• Honorary…

• “Invasionslitteraturen startskottet på Första världskriget”, Interview with Bo Pettersson 2.6.2014 Svenska Yle
• The Geography of Time Remembered: Richard Brautigan’s Autobiographical Fiction. Helsinki English Studies 3 / 2004.
• The Postcolonial Turn in Literary Translation Studies: Theoretical Frameworks Reviewed. In AE: Canadian Journal of Aesthetics / Revue canadienne d’aesthetique…