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)