Hanna Meretoja
Hanna Meretoja (b. 3 March 1977, Kaarina, Finland) is a literary scholar and narrative theorist. She is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory[1] at the University of Turku, Finland.
In 2001, Meretoja received her MA for which she studied Comparative Literature as her major and Philosophy, Art History, Cultural History and Communications as her minors (University of Turku). In 2010, she completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Turku, under the supervision of Professor Liisa Steinby. The title of her thesis is The French Narrative Turn: From the Problematization of Narrative Subjectivity in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Dans le labyrinthe to its Hermeneutic Rehabilitation in Michel Tournier’s Le Roi des Aulnes (Annales Universitatis Turkuensis B 329). Meretoja has been a visiting scholar at the University of Tübingen (1 August 2002 - 31 July 2003), Sorbonne Nouvelle (1 February - 30 June 2004) and Uppsala University (1 February - 30 June 2008) and a Visiting Professor at the American University of Paris (1 August 2013 - 31 July 2014). In 2014-2015, she was the first Director of the research centre Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies (University of Tampere).[2]
Meretoja has contributed mainly to the fields of narrative theory, narrative hermeneutics and narrative ethics.[3][4] Her areas of expertise also include the interrelations between literature, philosophy and history; literary and critical theory; cultural memory studies; trauma studies; philosophical hermeneutics; the intersections of ethics and aesthetics; 20th and 21st century narrative fiction in French, German and English; the socio-critical dimension of literature; and the study of subjectivity, identity and experientiality.[2]
Meretoja is the author of three books, and the co-editor of seven others.
In 2018, Meretoja received the Early Career Award of the Narrative Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA),[5]
Books in English[edit]
The Ethics of Storytelling: Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and the Possible. (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Storytelling and Ethics: Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative. (Routledge, 2018, co-edited with Colin Davis)
Values of Literature. (Brill, 2015, co-edited with Saija Isomaa, Pirjo Lyytikäinen & Kristina Malmio) Review[6]
The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory: The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) Reviews:[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 University of Turku, personnel page
- ↑ Meretoja’s contributions to narrative studies have been widely influential across disciplines, including narrative medicine (see The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine, edited by Rita Charon et al., Oxford University Press, 2016), narrative psychology (see Brian Schiff, A New Narrative For Psychology, Oxford University Press, 2017) and social sciences (see Elsa Lechner: “Migrants’ lives matter: biographical research, recognition and social participation” in Contemporary Social Science 2018, DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2018.1463449).
- ↑ University of Turku, A New Publication Helps Us Understand How Narratives Expand Our Sense of the Possible
- ↑ Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay (2017): "Values of Literature ed. by Hanna Meretoja et. al. (review)." French Studies: A Quarterly Review: Vol. 71: Iss. 1, 2017, pp. 159-160.
- ↑ Sullivan, Charles R. (2017) "Hanna Meretoja. The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory: The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier. Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xviii + 282 pp.," Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature: Vol. 41: Iss. 1, Article 11. https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.1911. Fülöp, Erika. (2016) "The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory: The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier by Hanna Meretoja (review)," French Studies: A Quarterly Review, vol. 70 no. 1, 2016, pp. 128-129. Flower, John (2016): "Book Review: Hanna Meretoja: The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory: The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier," Journal of European Studies: Vol. 46: Iss. 1, pp. 75-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047244116630233h. Eyal Segal (2015): "The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory: The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier", Poetics Today: Vol. 36: Iss. 3, 2015, pp. 318–320. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3160817
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