Aino-Kaisa Koistinen

ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8970-4714

No active affiliation

Previous, inactive or other affiliations

Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Postdoctoral Researcher, Ended

University of Turku, Associate/Adjunct Professor (Title of Docent) in Media Culture, Other affiliation

Research interests

My research demonstrates, how cultural artefacts and meaning-making processes shape social reality, and how they are, in turn, shaped by the social and material conditions of their production and reception. Moreover, my work interrogates the role of art and the media in human interaction with the environment. My research thus offers insight into the social and ecological relevance of cultural artefacts such as texts and images.

Fields of science

Personal keywords

gender studies; ecocriticism; television; queer studies; popular culture; monster studies; animal studies; feminist posthumanism; media culture; crime fiction; science fiction; speculative fiction; feminist pedagogy

Keywords (YSO)

commercial television, crime fiction, digital television, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, feminist pedagogy, feminist theory, gender, intersectionality, media culture, monsters, popular culture, posthumanism, queer studies, science fiction series, transmedia

Projects as Team Member

Uncomfortable museum: towards safe, brave spaces
- - Turunen, Johanna
- Kone Foundation
01/07/2023-30/06/2027

Dialogue and Argumentation for cultural Literacy Learning in Schools
- - Lähdesmäki, Tuuli
- European Commission
01/05/2018-31/05/2021

Publications and other outputs

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Author of research datasets

EUROHERIT – Legitimation of European cultural heritage and the dynamics of identity politics in the EU (2020) Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa; et al.; URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202012036919;10.17011/jyx/dataset/72968