
English Language and Literature – Staff
Jason Finch
Professor, Head of subject
Brita Wårvik
Professor
Debopam Das
University Lecturer
Personal website
Olli Silvennoinen
University lecturer
Personal website
Raita Merivirta
University Lecturer
Zeynep Correia
Postdoc researcher (January 2025 – July 2026)
Nirali Joshi
Postdoc researcher (August 2024 – July 2026)
Izabela Czerniak
Project researcher (2025)
Doctoral researchers
Adam Borch
Hassan Butt
Aino Haataja
Andreas Lehtinen
Aino Malmivirta
Kevin Wolke
Docents
Maria Isaksson, PhD
Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Culture and Languages at BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo).
Docent in English Language.
Lydia Kokkola, PhD
Lecturer in English at Oulu University.
Docent in Children’s Literature in English.
Torsten Pettersson, PhD
Professor emeritus at the Department of Literature and Rhetoric at Uppsala University.
Docent in English Literature and Literary Theory.
Janne Skaffari, PhD
University Lecturer at University of Turku
Docent in English Language
Maxwell Woods, FD
Assistant professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Docent in global urban literature
Emeriti and emerita
Martin Gill, PhD, Senior University Lecturer
Anthony Johnson, Professor Emeritus
Roger D. Sell, OBE, PhD, Professor Emeritus
Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm, PhD, Professor Emerita
Nils Erik Enkvist
In Memoriam (Meddelanden från Åbo Akademi, p. 18)
Håkan Ringbom
In Memoriam (Meddelanden från Åbo Akademi, p. 34)

