M.A. Aino Haataja will publicly defend her doctoral thesis in English Language and Literature with a thesis entitled From Private Happiness to Public Virtue: Contextualizing Worldliness in Maria Edgeworth’s Fiction.

Professor Fiona Price, University of Chichester, United Kingdom, will serve as opponent and Professor Jason Finch, 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 welcome to attend the public defence of this doctoral thesis online, the link will be published here one week before the defence.

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)