Speakers
- Sirpa Salenius
- University of Eastern Finland
Sirpa Salenius, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in English-language literature and culture at the University of Eastern Finland. Previously she worked as Project Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo (2015-2016) and taught at American university study abroad programs in Rome and Florence (2003-2015). Her research focuses on Transatlantic Studies; her more recent work looks at race, gender, and sexuality in the transatlantic context. Her books include An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016), which was nominated for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) 2018 Book Award; Rose Elizabeth Cleveland: First Lady and Literary Scholar (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); and essay collections, including Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2019), co-edited with Verena Laschinger.