Profile
I am a graduate of University of Helsinki, where my doctoral research examined the relationship between didactic conduct ideals and elite women’s possibilities for autonomous subjectivity in the English eighteenth-century polite society. I also spent a year as a visiting doctoral student at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.
Research
Research Interests:
My current research project investigates the interconnectedness of nationality and race in Georgian England and its colonies. I am particularly interested in the ways national and ethnic identities were performed through ‘proper’ behaviour and, therefore, were changeable and negotiable. My research interests include:
- Early modern British and European history
- Cultural and intellectual history
- Historical construction of identities
- History of gender and ethnicity in the early modern period
- Poststructuralist and feminist history
Publications
- ‘Rethinking Female Chastity and Gentlewomen's Honour in Eighteenth-Century England’ (link is external), The Historical Journal, Vol. 59, No. 1 (2016)
- ‘A Polite Foucault? Eighteenth-Century Politeness as a Disciplinary System and Practice of the Self’ (link is external), Cultural History, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2014)
- ‘The Rhetorical Uses of Naturalness in the Politeness Discourse on Women in Eighteenth-Century England’ (in Finnish, ‘Luonnollisuuden retoriikka 1700-luvun englantilaisessa naisten kohteliaisuutta käsittelevässä diskurssissa’ (link is external)), Historiallinen Aikakauskirja, No. 1 (2013)