Staff Profiles

Dr Anne Karhio

BA, MA, DIP, PhD

Biography

Anne Karhio is a graduate of the University of Helsinki and the National University of Ireland, Galway. She is currently an Irish Research Council Laureate Project Fellow at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the project Republic of Conscience: Human Rights and Modern Irish Poetry. She has studied and worked in several universities in Finland, France, Norway and Ireland, and also contributes to the ERC-funded research project on Machine Vision at the University of Bergen. Her previous research project Virtual Landscapes: New Media Technologies and the Poetics of Place in Recent Irish Poetry was co-funded by the Irish Research Council and the European Commission via Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.

Research Interests

Contemporary poetry, poetry and the media, digital literature, Irish writing, place and landscape, visual aesthetics, Nordic connections in Irish writing.

Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2017)	'Space and Landscape in Hearts and Minds: The Interrogation Project – Uncomfortable Proximities' Anne Karhio (2017) 'Space and Landscape in Hearts and Minds: The Interrogation Project – Uncomfortable Proximities'. Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, 3 (33):350-363 [DOI] [Details]
	(2017)	'The End of Landscape: Holes by Graham Allen' Anne Karhio (2017) 'The End of Landscape: Holes by Graham Allen'. Electronic Book Review, [Details]
	(2018)	'‘These shirts I borrow from the Finnish’: the Kanteletar and the fabric of loss in Peter Sirr’s ‘A Journal’' Anne Karhio (2018) '‘These shirts I borrow from the Finnish’: the Kanteletar and the fabric of loss in Peter Sirr’s ‘A Journal’'. Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 2 (1):208-224 [Details]
	(2015)	'‘The familiar and the foreign: Finnish landscapes in contemporary Irish poetry’' Anne Karhio (2015) '‘The familiar and the foreign: Finnish landscapes in contemporary Irish poetry’'. Études Irlandaises, 39 (1):183-204 [Details]
	(2014)	'‘“All this debris of day-to-day experience”: the poet as rhythmanalyst in the works of Louis MacNeice, Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon’' Anne Karhio (2014) '‘“All this debris of day-to-day experience”: the poet as rhythmanalyst in the works of Louis MacNeice, Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon’'. Nordic Journal of English Studies, 13 (2):57-79 [Details]
	(2013)	'‘In Search of St. Elsewhere: Myth and Popular Music in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon’' Anne Karhio (2013) '‘In Search of St. Elsewhere: Myth and Popular Music in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon’'. Nordic Irish Studies, 12 (1):25-40 [Details]
	(2012)	'‘Paul Durcan, Seamus Heaney and Hugo Simberg’s Wounded Angel’' Anne Karhio (2012) '‘Paul Durcan, Seamus Heaney and Hugo Simberg’s Wounded Angel’'. Nordic Irish Studies, 11 (1):27-38 [Details]
	(2007)	'‘Rewriting “Radical Innocence”: Poetic Formations of Memory and Presence in Yeats, Mahon and Muldoon’' Anne Karhio (2007) '‘Rewriting “Radical Innocence”: Poetic Formations of Memory and Presence in Yeats, Mahon and Muldoon’'. Nordic Irish Studies, 6 (1):103-118 [Details]

Books

	Year	Publication
	(2017)	‘Slight Return’: Paul Muldoon’s Poetics of Place. Anne Karhio (2017) ‘Slight Return’: Paul Muldoon’s Poetics of Place. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang. [DOI] [Details]

Book Chapters

	Year	Publication
	(2017)	'From Page to Screen: The Poetry Project and the poetics of landscape' Anne Karhio (2017) 'From Page to Screen: The Poetry Project and the poetics of landscape' In: Dialogues on Poetry: Mediatization and New Sensibilities. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press. [Details]
	(2018)	'Lost? Technology and Place in Recent Irish Poetry' Anne Karhio (2018) 'Lost? Technology and Place in Recent Irish Poetry' In: Representations of Loss in Irish Literature. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. [DOI] [Details]
	(2018)	'Finished and Under Construction: Visual Representation and Spatial Relations in Post-Ceasefire Northern Irish poetry' Anne Karhio (2018) 'Finished and Under Construction: Visual Representation and Spatial Relations in Post-Ceasefire Northern Irish poetry' In: The Legacy of the Good Friday Agreement: Northern Irish Politics, Culture and Art after 1998. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. [DOI] [Details]
	(2015)	'‘“Blurt it out like a Polaroid”: Framing place in the poetry of Paul Muldoon and Sinéad Morrissey’' Anne Karhio (2015) '‘“Blurt it out like a Polaroid”: Framing place in the poetry of Paul Muldoon and Sinéad Morrissey’' In: The Leaving of Ireland: Migration and Belonging in Irish Literature and Film – A Festschrift for Irene Gilsenan-Nordin. Oxford: Peter Lang. [Details]
	(2014)	'‘Between text, video and performance: landscape in Pamela Brown’s “Ireland Unfree”’' Anne Karhio (2014) '‘Between text, video and performance: landscape in Pamela Brown’s “Ireland Unfree”’' In: The Crossings of Art: Aesthetics and Culture in Ireland. Oxford: Peter Lang. [Details]
	(2012)	'‘The City in a Raindrop: The Urban Ecology of Paula Meehan’' Anne Karhio (2012) '‘The City in a Raindrop: The Urban Ecology of Paula Meehan’' In: Urban and Rural Landscapes: Language, Literature and Culture in Modern Ireland. Oxford: Peter Lang. [Details]
	(2011)	'‘Place, Narrative and Crisis in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon’' Anne Karhio (2011) '‘Place, Narrative and Crisis in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon’' In: Crisis and Contemporary Poetry. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. [Details]
	(2010)	'‘Immram, Haggadah and the New Jersey Suburb: Jewish and Irish America in the poetry of Paul Muldoon’' Anne Karhio (2010) '‘Immram, Haggadah and the New Jersey Suburb: Jewish and Irish America in the poetry of Paul Muldoon’' In: Beyond Ireland: Encounters Across Cultures. Oxford: Peter Lang. [Details]
	(2008)	'A Further Shore: Essays in Irish and Scottish Studies' Anne Karhio (2008) 'A Further Shore: Essays in Irish and Scottish Studies' In: ‘“Truth? A Pebble of Quartz?”: The Material Image and Dimensions of the Poetic in the Work of Paul Muldoon’. Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies. [Details]
	(2007)	'‘Place, Experience and Estrangement in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon’' Anne Karhio (2007) '‘Place, Experience and Estrangement in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon’' In: Recovering Memory: Irish Representations of Past and Present. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Details]

Edited Books

	Year	Publication
	(2015)	ELO2015: The End(s) of Electronic Literature: Conference Program and Festival Catalogue. Anne Karhio, Lucas Ramada Prieto and Scott Rettberg (Ed.). (2015) ELO2015: The End(s) of Electronic Literature: Conference Program and Festival Catalogue. Bergen: ELMCIP, The University of Bergen Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies. [Details]
	(2011)	Crisis and Contemporary Poetry. Anne Karhio, Seán Crosson and Charles I. Armstrong (Ed.). (2011) Crisis and Contemporary Poetry. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan. [Details]

Conference Contributions

	Year	Publication
	(2016)	NAES 2016, Anne Karhio (2016) ‘The Kalevala, Finnish folk tradition, and 20th century Irish poetry’. [Oral Presentation], NAES 2016, University of Agder, , 04-MAY-16 - 06-MAY-16. [Details]
	(2016)	‘Visual Media Technolgies, Place and Space’, Anne Karhio (2016) ‘Landscape, Inside Out: Re-negotiating the Tourist Gaze via New Media Technologies’. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], ‘Visual Media Technolgies, Place and Space’, University of Bergen , 22-APR-16 - 22-APR-16. [Details]
	(2015)	Electronic Literature Organization, ‘The Ends of Electronic Literature’, Anne Karhio (2015) ‘The end of landscape: Holes by Graham Allen'. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Electronic Literature Organization, ‘The Ends of Electronic Literature’, University of Bergen , 04-AUG-15 - 07-AUG-15. [Details]
	(2015)	‘Ireland: Shared Futures?’, Anne Karhio (2015) ‘Poetry in the Twilight Zone: ethics and aesthetics of resolution in recent Northern Irish poetry’. [Oral Presentation], ‘Ireland: Shared Futures?’, Université Rennes 2 , 10-DEC-15 - 12-DEC-15. [Details]
	(2015)	CERCOP conference ‘Experiments in Contemporary Poetry’, Anne Karhio (2015) ‘“This is not a mainstream aesthetic act”: Experimental Poetry and New Media in Ireland’. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], CERCOP conference ‘Experiments in Contemporary Poetry’, University of Aalborg , 02-DEC-15 - 05-DEC-15. [Details]
	(2015)	Tenth Conference of the European Association for the Centres and Associations of Irish Studies (EFACIS), Anne Karhio (2015) ‘Media technology and visual representation in contemporary Irish poetry’. [Oral Presentation], Tenth Conference of the European Association for the Centres and Associations of Irish Studies (EFACIS), University of Palermo , 03-JUN-15 - 06-JUN-15. [Details]
	(2015)	‘Contemporary poetry between genre, art forms, and media’, Anne Karhio (2015) ‘“The frame of the sparkling graphics”: the window and the screen in contemporary Irish poetry’. [Invited Oral Presentation], ‘Contemporary poetry between genre, art forms, and media’, Hedmark University College , 03-MAR-15 - 03-MAR-15. [Details]
	(2014)	CERCOP, ‘Poetry, Mediatization and New Sensibilities’, Anne Karhio (2014) ‘The Poetry Project and the poetics of landscape’. [Oral Presentation], CERCOP, ‘Poetry, Mediatization and New Sensibilities’, University of Aarhus , 03-DEC-14 - 05-DEC-14. [Details]
	(2014)	Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN) conference ‘Ireland and the Popular’, Anne Karhio (2014) ‘Framed Landscapes in Recent Irish Poetry’. [Oral Presentation], Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN) conference ‘Ireland and the Popular’, University of Aalborg , 07-MAY-14 - 09-JUL-15. [Details]
	(2013)	The European Federation for the Associations and Centres for Irish Studies (EFACIS) conference ‘Towards 2016: Old and New Irelands’, Anne Karhio (2013) ‘The poetics of place in recent Irish videopoetry’. [Oral Presentation], The European Federation for the Associations and Centres for Irish Studies (EFACIS) conference ‘Towards 2016: Old and New Irelands’, NUI Galway , 04-JUN-13 - 07-JUN-13. [Details]
	(2012)	Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN) conference ‘Authority and Wisdom’, Anne Karhio (2012) ‘Place, tradition and media technology in recent Irish poetry’. [Oral Presentation], Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN) conference ‘Authority and Wisdom’, University of Dalarna, Falun , 12-DEC-12 - 14-DEC-12. [Details]
	(2012)	‘Mapping Spectral Traces V’, Anne Karhio (2012) ‘Mediating Place in Recent Irish Poetry’. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], ‘Mapping Spectral Traces V’, NUI Galway , 19-APR-12 - 19-APR-12. [Details]
	(2010)	Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN) conference ‘The Island and the Arts’, Anne Karhio (2010) 'Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan and Hugo Simberg’s Wounded Angel’,. [Oral Presentation], Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN) conference ‘The Island and the Arts’, University of Tromsø , 02-DEC-10 - 03-DEC-10. [Details]
	(2010)	The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) conference ‘Old and New Knowledges’, Anne Karhio (2010) ‘Mediating Place in the Recent Poetry of Paul Muldoon’. [Oral Presentation], The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) conference ‘Old and New Knowledges’, National University of Ireland, Maynooth , 26-JUL-10 - 30-JUL-10. [Details]
	(2009)	The European Federation for the Associations and Centres for Irish Studies (EFACIS) conference ‘Ireland and Europe: Crosscurrents and Exchanges’, Anne Karhio (2009) ‘On the Edge of the Known World: Finland in Contemporary Irish Poetry’. [Oral Presentation], The European Federation for the Associations and Centres for Irish Studies (EFACIS) conference ‘Ireland and Europe: Crosscurrents and Exchanges’, University of Vienna , 03-SEP-09 - 05-SEP-09. [Details]
	(2009)	Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies (DUCIS) conference ‘Myth and Reality’, Anne Karhio (2009) ‘In search of St. Elsewhere: Popular Music and Nostalgia in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon’. [Oral Presentation], Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies (DUCIS) conference ‘Myth and Reality’, Dalarna University College, Falun , 29-OCT-09 - 30-OCT-09. [Details]
	(2009)	The Second Galway Conference of Irish Studies, ‘Into the Heartland of the Ordinary’, Anne Karhio (2009) ‘“Gone Underground”?: Nostalgia and Popular Music in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon’. [Oral Presentation], The Second Galway Conference of Irish Studies, ‘Into the Heartland of the Ordinary’, NUI Galway , 09-JUN-09 - 12-JUN-09. [Details]
	(2008)	The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) conference ‘Home and Elsewhere in Irish Writing’, Anne Karhio (2008) ‘“The kettledrum’s de dum de dum”: Music and Place in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon’. [Oral Presentation], The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) conference ‘Home and Elsewhere in Irish Writing’, Universidade do Porto , 28-JUL-08 - 01-AUG-08. [Details]
	(2008)	Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies (DUCIS) conference ‘Urban and Rural Landscapes: Language Literature and Culture in Modern Ireland’, Anne Karhio (2008) ‘The City in a Raindrop: The Urban Ecology of Paula Meehan’. [Oral Presentation], Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies (DUCIS) conference ‘Urban and Rural Landscapes: Language Literature and Culture in Modern Ireland’, Dalarna University College, Falun , 06-NOV-08 - 07-NOV-08. [Details]
	(2008)	Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN) conference ‘Place and Space’, Anne Karhio (2008) ‘Immram, Haggadah and the New Jersey Suburb: Jewish and Irish America in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon’. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN) conference ‘Place and Space’, University of Vaasa , 28-MAY-08 - 30-MAY-08. [Details]
	(2007)	EFACIS conference ‘Dreaming the Future: New Horizons / Old Barriers in 21st Century Ireland’, Anne Karhio (2007) ‘All this debris of day-to-day experience: The Poetic Journals of Louis MacNeice, Paul Muldoon and Derek Mahon’. [Oral Presentation], EFACIS conference ‘Dreaming the Future: New Horizons / Old Barriers in 21st Century Ireland’, Universidad de Sevilla , 06-DEC-07 - 08-DEC-07. [Details]
	(2007)	The International Association fo the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) conference ‘Varieties Of Irishness’, Anne Karhio (2007) ‘A “Slight Return”: Paul Muldoon’s Irelands’. [Oral Presentation], The International Association fo the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) conference ‘Varieties Of Irishness’, University College Dublin , 17-JUL-07 - 20-JUL-07. [Details]
	(2007)	The Tenth Nordic Conference of English Studies, Anne Karhio (2007) ‘“The all-too-familiar terrain”: Place and Narrative in the Long Poems of Paul Muldoon’. [Oral Presentation], The Tenth Nordic Conference of English Studies, University of Bergen , 23-MAY-07 - 25-MAY-07. [Details]
	(2006)	Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN) conference, Anne Karhio (2006) ‘Rewriting “radical innocence”: Poetic formations of memory and presence in Yeats, Mahon and Muldoon’. [Oral Presentation], Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN) conference, University of Aarhus , 03-NOV-06 - 04-NOV-06. [Details]
	(2006)	‘Crosscurrents in Scottish and Irish Studies’, Anne Karhio (2006) ‘“Truth? A Pebble of Quartz?”: The Material Image and Dimensions of the Poetic in Muldoon’. [Oral Presentation], ‘Crosscurrents in Scottish and Irish Studies’, Queen's University, Belfast , 07-APR-06 - 08-APR-06. [Details]
	(2005)	The European Federation for the Associations and Centres for Irish Studies (EFACIS) conference ‘Memory and Place in the New Ireland’, Anne Karhio (2005) ‘Place, Experience and Estrangement in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon’. [Oral Presentation], The European Federation for the Associations and Centres for Irish Studies (EFACIS) conference ‘Memory and Place in the New Ireland’, University of Gothenburg , 06-DEC-05 - 08-DEC-05. [Details]

Article

	Year	Publication
	(2019)	Paul Muldoon. Anne Karhio (2019) Paul Muldoon. Oxford: Article [Details]
	(2018)	Keeping the poet: poetry, human rights and the presidency. Anne Karhio (2018) Keeping the poet: poetry, human rights and the presidency. Article [Details]

Discussion

	Year	Publication
	(2009)	‘Imagined Domains: A Conversation with Paul Meehan’. Anne Karhio (2009) ‘Imagined Domains: A Conversation with Paul Meehan’. Dalarna University: Discussion [Details]

Review Articles

	Year	Publication
	(2016)	Wily Familiarity”, on Seamus Heaney: Five Fables iPad app. Anne Karhio (2016) Wily Familiarity”, on Seamus Heaney: Five Fables iPad app. Review Articles [Details]
	(2008)	Review of Sympathetic Ink: Intertextual Relations in Northern Irish Poetry by Shane Alcobia-Murphy. Anne Karhio (2008) Review of Sympathetic Ink: Intertextual Relations in Northern Irish Poetry by Shane Alcobia-Murphy. Review Articles [Details]

Honours and Awards

Year	Title	Awarding Body
2014	Irish Research Council and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions ELEVATE posdoctoral fellowship	Irish Research Council
2007	Lady Gregory Doctoral Research Fellowship	The College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies, NUI Galway
2003	CIMO/Department of Education and Science Fellowship	Centre for International Mobility (CIMO), FInland

Professional Associations

Association	Function	From / To
Theory Into Practice research group	Member	/
European Federation for the Associations and Centres for Irish Studies (EFACIS)	Member	/
Nordic Irish Studies Network	Secretary, Web editor	/
Electronic Literature Organization (ELO)	Member	/
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL)	Member	/
Aesthetic Imaginaries research group	Member	/
Centre for Research in Contemporary Poetry (CERCOP)	Associate Member	/

Employment

Employer	Position	From / To
NUI Galway	Tutor	01-OCT-06 / 30-SEP-07
NUI Galway	Seminar leader and lecturer (part-time)	01-OCT-10 / 01-JUL-13
University of Stavanger	Associate Professor	01-AUG-13 / 31-JUL-14
NUI Galway	Postdoctoral fellow	01-OCT-14 / 31-MAY-18

Education

Year	Institution	Qualification	Subject
2002	University of Helsinki	MASTERS DEGREE (LEVEL 9)	Comparative Literature
2002	University of Helsinki	Bachelor of Arts	Comparative Literature (major), North American Studies, British and Irish Studies, Moral Philosophy, Television and Film Studies, French
2011	NUI Galway	PhD	English literature
2010	NUI Galway	Diploma	Dioplóma sa Ghaeilge le hAcadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, B2