Academic training
Doctor of Philosophy (Comparative Literature) 1982-1990 Ph.D. (June 12, 1990), Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto.
Doctoral Dissertation:
1990 "The Short Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Gérard de Nerval-A Study in Post-Jungian ...   [mehr]

Academic training
Doctor of Philosophy (Comparative Literature) 1982-1990 Ph.D. (June 12, 1990), Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto.
Doctoral Dissertation:
1990 "The Short Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Gérard de Nerval-A Study in Post-Jungian Aesthetics." Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, 335p. 1981, Licence ès lettres, University of Geneva, (Honor's M.A. in American literature, minor in Russian)
1976, Hum. Kand. (BA), University of Helsinki (English, French and political science) Language Skills: Finnish, mothertongue, English, French (excellent), German, Russian (good if passive), Spanish, Latin, Sami (basic knowledge).
Most important positions
2006-2007 (1.8) Varttunut Tutkija, SUOMEN AKATEMIA (Senior Researcher, The Finnish Academy) 2005 (1.4) UNIVERSITY OF OULU, Docent, Dept. of English, North American Studies, Women’s Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies in the North, Writings on “Otherness” in English.
1999-2004 UNIVERSITY OF OULU. Faculty of Educational Sciences. Professor of Women's Studies and Multiculturalism. 5-year term. 2002- Consultant and expert responsible for training the 66 partners in WomenIT EU EQUAL project (Women, Industry and Technology) as representative of Oulu women's studies. (Training consisting of equality issues and ecosocial sustainable development)
1991-1999 CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY. Simone de Beauvoir Institute. As Associate Professor (with tenure) since l996. ACTING PRINCIPAL in 1997. Assistant professor from l991-1996. 1990-1991 UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI Assistant professor ("Professeure régulière") in the Département des langues modernes (modern languages department) with cross- appointment to the psychology department.
1982-1990 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, Erindale College, Mississauga, Ont., Canada. Instructor of French language and literature at the Department of French. 1989 CORNELL UNIVERSITY, USA: DAAD post-doctoral fellowship (Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst); Visiting Scholar of The Western Societies Programme, "Disease and Sexuality in German Culture", Cornell University on invitation by Sander Gilman.   [weniger]