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Visiting Scholar Lecture: Tero Vanhanen

Tero Vanhanen
November 19, 2019
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
213 Denney Hall

From the Heart, by the Throat: Towards the Affective Aesthetics of Narrative

Project Narrative is excited to announce another excellent Visiting Scholar lecture. On Tuesday, Nov. 19, Tero Vanhanen will give his presentation from 3-4:30 p.m. in Denney 311.  In his talk, “From the Heart, by the Throat: Towards the Affective Aesthetics of Narrative,” Vanhanen explores and synthesizes multiple methods of theorizing our emotional responses to stories, arguing for a more robust study of what he terms the “affective aesthetics” of reading narrative.

Biographical Note

Tero Eljas Vanhanen, PhD, is a literary scholar specializing in affective narratology and popular fiction studies. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. He has worked as a lecturer and university teacher at the Universities of Helsinki and Turku and is a member of the board of Young Academy Finland. Previously, he was a Fulbright Scholar at University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor of When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow (2017) and the The Art of Artertainment (2019) with Peter Swirski. His articles have appeared in journals such as Philosophy and Literature, SubStance, and The Journal of American Studies, as well as in several scholarly collections.