The department is looking for a trainee for the period mid-August to mid-November 2021. For more information see the trainee ad on the News Forum on the Department’s Moodle Notice Board and sent to enge-info.
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Doctoral defence: Cathryn McWilliams
M.A. Cathryn McWilliams will publicly defend her doctoral thesis in English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology at Åbo Akademi University on Monday 28 June, 2021, at 2pm.
The thesis is entitled The Letters and Legacy of Mary Ann McCracken.
Dr., Lecturer Jonathan Wright, Maynooth University, Ireland, will serve as opponent and professor Anthony Johnson, Åbo Akademi University, as custos.
You are welcome to follow the event online at https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66695112484.
An online version of the thesis is available in Doria:
http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-765-995-6
Doctoral defence: Mats Nyhom
FM Mats Nyhom will defend his doctoral thesis Friday, 14 May, 2021 at 5 pm.
The thesis is entitled Searchers After Horror: Understanding H. P. Lovecraft and His Fiction.
The opponent is Professor Timothy Murphy, Oklahoma State University, USA, and the chair is Associate Professor Jason Finch.
You are welcome to follow the event online using this link:
https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/69343809567
An online version of the thesis is available in Doria:
https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/180929
Thesis Festival 2021
The English Department’s online Thesis Festival will take place on Wednesday 19 May, starting at 4:15 pm, in Zoom at https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/64063179969
Programme:
Welcome
Presentations of thesis work
Lisa Martin-Harewood (BA):
“American and British English – Orthographic and Lexical Tendencies of Finland Swedish Secondary School EFL Learners”
Meredith Brown (BA/MA):
“A Comparative Case Study of NESTs in Two EFL Contexts: South Korea and Finland”
Jannika Siimelä (MA):
“Finland-Swedish Upper Secondary School Students’ Perspectives on Development and Assessment of Speaking Skills : A Case Study of the Effects of Pedagogical Intervention”
BREAK
Matilda Söderbacka (MA):
“ ‘And the earth was without form and void’ : The Paradoxical Nature of Formlessness in Eleanor Wilner’s ‘Reading the Bible Backwards’”
Sara Hänninen (MA):
“The Use of Anglicisms in German, Swedish and Finnish Newspaper Advertising”
Charlotte Stormbom (PhD):
“Gendered language in flux : The use of epicene pronouns in EFL and ELF writing”
H.W. DONNER ESSAY PRIZE 2021
SPREMI 8 APRIL
Our next SPREMI session takes place on Thursday 8 April, 15:15-17 on Zoom.
Zoom link: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059).
The speaker is Henrik Ruotsalainen (French Language and Literature, Åbo Akademi). The title of his talk is “Modus efter konjunktionen après que (’efter att’) i modern franska” (see ABSTRACT).
SPREMI 25 March: Gustaf Olsson
Our next SPREMI session takes place on Thursday 25 March, 15:15-17 on Zoom.
Zoom link: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059).
The speaker is Gustaf Olsson (University of Turku, Russian Studies). The title of his talk is “Grammatical variation in loandwords” (see ABSTRACT).
Department Trainee Position, spring 2021
The department is looking for a trainee for the period March to May 2021. For more information see the trainee ad on the Department’s Moodle Notice Board and sent to enge-info.
SPREMI 25 February: Ylva Biri
Our next SPREMI session takes place on Thursday 25 February, 15:15-17 on Zoom.
Zoom link: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059).
The speaker is Ylva Biri (University of Helsinki, English Philology). The title of her talk is “Participant positioning in interest-based online communities” (see ABSTRACT).
PREMIS 17.2: Jason Finch and Lieven Ameel, Developments in Literary Urban Studies: Two Drafts
During this week’s Zoom Premis Jason Finch and Lieven Ameel will each be giving a presentation on their book projects. Details and Zoom link in the poster: Premis 17th February 2021_Ameel-Finch.
This is happening the coming Wednesday 17th February 16-18.
All are warmly welcome!
Doctoral defence: Charlotte Stormbom
FM Charlotte Stormbom will defend her doctoral thesis Friday, 12 February, 2021 at 1 pm.
The thesis is entitled Gendered language in flux: The use of epicene pronouns in EFL and ELF writing. Apart from the candidate’s lectio praecursoria in Swedish, the discussion will be in English.
The opponent is Professor Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki, and the chair is Professor Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm.
You are welcome to follow the event online using this link:
https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/61209180922
Meeting ID: 6120 918 0922
A link to the online version of the thesis can be found here:
https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/180221