Aino-Kaisa Koistinen
- University Researcher, Research Institute, Research Institute
- +358504771386
- aino-kaisa.koistinen@uniarts.fi
Publications in the research database (57)
Introduction
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen (she/they) is a poet, researcher and teacher who thrives in cross-artistic as well as inter-, multi- and transdisciplinary contexts. Their research operates in the intersections of the humanities, social sciences and artistic research, and the multidisciplinary field of sustainability studies. Koistinen holds an MA in literary studies (University of Oulu, Finland), a PhD in contemporary culture studies (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), and the Title of Docent in media culture (University of Turku, Finland).
Koistinen's research interests include writing as artistic research, feminist posthumanism, speculative fiction, the politics of imagination, monsters as thinking-tools, poetry as research method, and developing artist pedagogy in a dialogue with feminist and environmental pedagogy.
Currently, Koistinen's research focuses on writing as artist pedagogy. Their project examines writing as a feminist collective practice in which more-than-human actors also take part. Previously, they have studied, for example, affective responses to violent fiction, art as cultural sustainability, re-imaginations of humanity in science fiction, poetry as feminist and posthumanist knowledge production, and environmental writing.