Prof Hanna Meretoja

Hanna Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory at the University of Turku (Finland). In 2019-2020, she was Visiting Scholar at Oxford Centre for Life-Writing and Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She is a Principal Investigator in the Academy of Finland research consortium “Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory” (2018-2022). Her research is mainly in the fields of narrative theory, narrative ethics, life-writing studies, cultural memory studies, trauma studies, and critical medical humanities. Her monographs include The Ethics of Storytelling: Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and the Possible (2018, Oxford University Press) and The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory (2014, Palgrave Macmillan), and she has co-edited, with Colin Davis, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma (2020, Routledge) and Storytelling and Ethics: Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative (2018, Routledge).