Maria Mäkelä

@mariamakela.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature @Tampere University Finland

Apply to The Netherlands Winter School on Narrative: NARRATIVE AND AUTHORITY and meet P. Dawson, A. Georgakopoulou, A. Gibbons, S. Kjerkegaard and many others! Our AUTOSTORY project is proud and happy to co-organize this. DL for applications November 20, 2026. Winter School January 18–22, 2027.

Narrative and Authority

Teaming up with the AUTOSTORY project, the Netherlands Winter School on Narrative offers a one-week course consisting of lectures and workshops in which...

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Special issue of Frontiers of Narrative Studies 11/2 (Brill/De Gruyter), titled Narratives of Scandal and Shock: Transgression, Media, and Cultural Response is now out! Check out the articles by AUTOSTORY affiliates Hanna Lahdenperä, Tero Eljas Vanhanen, and Ville Hämäläinen!

Special lssue: Narratives of scandal and shock: Transgression, media, and cultural response

Volume 11, issue 2 of the journal Frontiers of Narrative Studies was published in 2025.

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Apply for a 2-year postdoc position or a 3-year Senior Fellow position @Tampere Institute for Advanced Study! DL 2 March. Applicants working with narrative are invited to affiliate with Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies! tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

Senior Research Fellow (Society), 2 positions (Tampere Institute for Advanced Study, Tampere IAS) / Yliopistotutkija (Yhteiskunta), 2 tehtävää (Tampereen yliopiston tutkijakollegium)

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Mäkelä & Pekkola & Stenvall & Rossi (toim.): Tarinoita ihmisen ja tietojärjestelmän kohtaamisesta — Monitieteinen näkökulma (Vastapaino, toukokuu 2026) Miksi uuden tietojärjestelmän käyttöönotto aiheuttaa tuskaa työpaikoilla? Linkki ennakkotilauslomakkeelle kommenteissa, tulee myös open access.

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A boundary 2 online special issue on literary value out now, after an unprecedentedly quick editing and peer-review process. I wrote on postdigital authorship, transmedial authorial ethos, story economy, social mobility as narrative capital & Édouard Louis: www.boundary2.org/the-question...

the question of literary value | special issue

Artwork by Lieke Verreussel, relation, ship (2025). Photo by Arne De Boever.  b2o: an online journal is an online-only, free-to-read, peer-reviewed journal published by the boundary 2 editorial collec...

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Active conference spring underway: The AUTOSTORY project has presented its preliminary ideas at both the Narrative Conference in Miami and Narrative Matters in Paris. The discussion continues, next up: Nordisk litteratursociologi (NOLS) 2025 in Helsinki!

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