The principal subjects of my research are the history of theatre, historiography, and performance studies. In addition, several of my studies have dealt with the relationship between theatre and politics, as well as cultural history.

Here at my home university I have held several elected positions at the Department and Faculty level as a representative of students, other staff, and professors alike, many of them involving the planning of teaching. Since 1995 I have held positions at three separate Departments, while nevertheless sticking to the same subject: first as a student representative and then staff representative on the Steering Committee of the Department of Comparative Literature, Theatre Studies, and Aesthetics, then as staff representative and then representative of professors on the Steering Committee of the Department of Art Studies, and now finally as a representative of professors on the Department Council of the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture, and Art Studies.

There have been many great moments in my quarter century at the University of Helsinki, beginning from my student days. Some of my student friends have become colleagues and my current colleagues have become friends, which demonstrates what a close-knit group we are.