Piia Posti
Senior lecturerPiia Posti is senior lecturer in comparative literature in the field of postcolonial studies. She received her PhD in 2005 from Stockholm University. Posti’s thesis discusses landscape, visuality, and exile in the fiction of Australian writer Gerald Murnane. She has previously worked at the Department of English, Stockholm University.
Teaching
Piia Posti teaches literary history (Non-European and Postcolonial literature), children’s literature, and advance level courses in comparative literature and postcolonial studies.
Research
Posti's research interests include postmodern and postcolonial theory and fiction, intermediality, and popular culture. Current research develops some of the issues in the thesis but from a Swedish perspective, as she studies Swedish travelogues on Australia. She is member of Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, one of the university's centres for prominent research.
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
- Posti, P.K. (2014). Concurrences in Contemporary Travel Writing : Postcolonial Critique and Colonial Sentiments in Sven Lindqvist’s Exterminate all the Brutes and Terra Nullius. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. 6. 1319-1345.
Article in journal (Other academic)
- Posti, P.K. (2020). Kärleksaffärer och kvinnliga entreprenörer : Ewa Klingbergs Huskvarnasviten. HumaNetten. 435-442.
- Posti, P.K., Forsgren, P. (2020). Småland och litteraturen. HumaNetten. 291-294.
- Posti, P.K. (2014). Språket som souvenir och revansch. Karavan. 64-70.
- Posti, P.K. (2002). Med siktet vid sidan om : Gerald Murnane. Artes (Stockholm). 28. 51-57.
Conference paper (Other academic)
- Posti, P.K. (2019). Imperial Price : Mansfield Park and its Colonial Connections. Presented at the symposium Jane Austen and Co.: The enduring popularity of women writers of the past : 10-11 April 2019, Linnaeus University, Växjö.
- Posti, P.K. (2018). “Heart full of charity" : Affective economies in Sven Lindqvist’s Exterminate All the Brutes. Affects of Diversity in Nordic Literature - DINO 2018 Conference : University of Oslo, Norway, November 1-2, 2018.
- Posti, P.K. (2018). Resisting the Cosmopolitan Novel? : World Literature at Large. Archives of Resistance : Cosmopolitanism, Memory and World Literature : Three-day International ConferenceUniversity of Leeds, June 20-22 2018.
Chapter in book (Other academic)
- Posti, P.K. (2017). Resor, äventyr och den andre : Exotism och det främmande i samtida svensk barnlitteratur. Mångkulturell barn- och ungdomslitteratur : Analyser. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 181-197.
- Posti, P.K. (2013). Australia : From Settler Colony to Independent Nation. Postcolonial Texts and Events : Cultural Narratives from the English-Speaking World. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 229-260.
- Posti, P.K. (2011). Att skriva som aborigin : litteratur av Australiens ursprungsbefolkning. Världens litteraturer : En gränsöverskridande historia. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 265-268.
- Posti, P.K. (2000). Cartographic Fictions: Maps and Literature. Creative Communication : Production and Process, Theory and Analysis. Canberra, University of Canberra. 181-185.
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Posti, P.K. (2005). The Double Aspect : Gerald Murnane's Visual Poetics. Doctoral Thesis. Stockholm, Stockholm University Department of English. 228.
Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
- Posti, P.K. (2015). Mötet människa och yttre rymden. Rymden och människan: Rymdforskning i humaniora, konst och samhällsvetenskap. 14-15.
Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
- Posti, P.K. (2019). Kjolsfållar och mansskjortor : Förförelse hos Austen då och nu : [ Skirt hems and men's shirts : Seduction in Austen then and now ]. Presented at the symposium Jane Austen and Co.: The enduring popularity of women writers of the past : 10-11 april 2019, Det Fria Ordets Hus, Växjö.
Article, book review (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
- Posti, P.K. (2020). Det hämnande djuret : Att läsa Olga Tokarczuk under en pandemi. Astra: samhälle, kultur, feminism. Helsingfors, Utgivarföreningen för tidskriften Astra rf. 102. 31-33.
Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
- Posti, P.K. (2018). Musiken som minne, rörelse och frihet.
- Posti, P.K. (2015). Fantasi och berättelser : Flykt, destruktivitet, andrum, kreativ kraft?.
- Posti, P.K. (2014). Blast to the Past : Marketing the Native.
- Posti, P.K. (2013). Ägget. Fibben Hald : Läskigt att bli stor - läskigt att vara stor. Norrköping, Norrköpings konstmuseum.