Professor Anthony Johnson will hold his valedictory lecture on Wednesday 19 November 2025, 16.15, in Arken Helikon (Tehtaankatu 2). The title of lecture is
“From Vocation to Vacation: A Career in English Literature”
The lecture will be streamed: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/64571766075
(Photo Åbo Akademis bildbank)
Congratulations to our graduate Jillian Bainbridge!
EFNIL (European Federation of National Institutions for Language) has selected Jillian Bainbridge’s MA thesis as one of the three best in Europe. See Winners 2025 at https://efnil.org/projects/masters-thesis-award/
The thesis, completed 2024 and supervised by Martin Gill, is entitled “Renaming Bannau Brycheiniog: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Comments Below-the-Line at Two British Newspapers” (https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/188898)
M.A. Andreas Lehtinen will publicly defend his doctoral thesis in English Language and Literature on Saturday 15 November 2025 in Auditorium Armfelt (Arken, Tehtaankatu).
The thesis is entitled Voids of the Absolute: Michael Symmons Roberts’s Poetry as Hegelian (Picture-)Thought.
Professor Kristina Mendicino, Brown University, USA, will serve as opponent and Professor Emeritus Anthony Johnson, Åbo Akademi University, as custos.
The doctoral thesis can be read at Doria, the link will be published here one week before the defence.
You are warmly invited to the Interdisciplinary Research Symposium
Drama and Early Modern Education in Britain
on Friday 17 October, 2025 in Helikon (Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).
Individual topics will be addressed from Social, Historical, Linguistic, Literary, and Digital perspectives.
The programme is available here.
Åbo Akademi University and The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters are organizing a symposium in memory of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Professor Nils Erik Enkvist..
Nils Erik Enkvist was Professor of English as well as Rector and Chancellor of Åbo Akademi University. He was an honorary member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters.
The full-day symposium will take place in Turku on Monday, September 22, 2025.
The event will highlight Enkvist’s significant contributions to language and literary studies through lectures addressing key research areas from his extensive scholarly work, including Old English and applied linguistics.
The new academic year at the department starts with three introductory meetings on Monday 1 September
New students, 9.00-9.45, Panorama
Other BA students, 15.15-16.00, Helikon
MA students 16.15-17.00, Kramer
The introduction is an important occasion where you will get a lot of essential information concerning your studies. So do come along!
Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 15 May 2025 at 15.15 – 17.00 in aud. Panorama (B301, Arken) & Zoom. The speakers of the day are Izabela Czerniak and Debopam Das from English Language and Literature, Åbo Akademi University.
In this presentation, the speakers discuss their ongoing corpus project, The Use of Relative Clauses and Related Phenomena in Learner English.
Please see the abstract for more information.
The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059).
Everyone is warmly welcomed!
Welcome to the Thesis Festival on Monday, 28th of April, at 14.30 in Källan (C201), Arken.
The programme includes presentations on thesis work by Carl-Ivar Back, Noémie Hueber, and Aino Haataja. The winner of the H. W. Donner Essay Prize 2025 will also be announced.
You can find more details in the attachment.
Everyone is warmly welcomed!
Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 20 March 2025 at 15.15 – 17.00 in aud. Camera Obscura (E201, Arken) & Zoom.
The speaker of the day is Tuomo Hiippala form University of Helsinki. In this presentation, Professor Hiippala discusses his current project, A Foundation for Empirical Multimodality Research, funded by the European Research Council (2024–2029).
Please see the abstract for more information.
The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059).
Everyone is warmly welcomed!
