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Dr Minna Vuohelainen

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School of Arts and Social Sciences Department of English

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Dr Minna Vuohelainen ALG07, College Building
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Minna joined City in August 2016 and teaches on BA and MA programmes in English.

Minna's teaching and research are underpinned by a commitment to interdisciplinarity. Her primary research interests lie in fin-de-siècle popular and print culture and publishing history (c. 1880-1920), genre studies (particularly Gothic and crime), London literatures, spatial theory, and the medical humanities; twentieth-century conflict literature is a significant secondary interest.

Minna would be interested to hear from prospective PhD students working on the fin de siècle, urban studies, spatiality, genre fiction and periodical research.

Qualifications

  1. Postgraduate Certificate in Research Degree Supervision, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom, Mar 2010
  2. Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning Support in Higher Education, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom, Sep 2009
  3. PhD English ('The Popular Fiction of Richard Marsh: Literary Production, Genre, Audience’), Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom, Dec 2007
  4. MA English (Twentieth-Century Studies), King's College London, United Kingdom, Dec 2001
  5. BSc International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, Jul 2000

Administrative roles

  1. Senior Tutor (PGT), Sep 2020 – present
  2. REF Lead, UoA D27 (English Language and Literature), Apr 2018 – present
  3. Programme Director, MA English
  4. Senior Tutor for Research, Department of English
  5. Research Lead, Department of English

Employment

  1. Reader in English, City, University of London, Aug 2020 – present
  2. Senior Lecturer in English, City, University of London, Aug 2018 – Jul 2020
  3. Lecturer in English, City, University of London, Aug 2016 – Jul 2018
  4. MA Programme Leader/ Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Edge Hill University, 2007 – 2016
  5. Lecturer / Associate Lecturer in English, University of Derby, 2006 – 2007
  6. Associate Tutor/ Graduate Teaching Assistant, Birkbeck, University of London, 2003 – 2007

Languages

Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish; Castilian and Swedish.

Expertise

Geographic Areas

  • Europe

Teaching

BA English

http://www.city.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/english

Modules:
EN1002 Literature in Historical Context
EN2004 Contemporary Genre Fiction
EN2006 Reading the City: Victorian and Early Twentieth Century
London

MA English

https://www.city.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/english

Modules:
ENM002 Research Methods
ENM003 Dissertation
ENM005 Imagined Communities
ENM006 Literary Cartographies

PhD English

https://www.city.ac.uk/courses/research-degrees/english

Research

Research interests

• Literature, cultural history and popular culture, c. 1880-1920
• Print culture, c. 1880-1920
• London literatures, urban studies, spatial theory
• Genre: Gothic and crime fiction
• ‘Richard Marsh’ (1857-1915)
• Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
• The literature of conflict
• The medical humanities: disability, alcoholism

Forthcoming publications

• ‘"A Feeling of Space": Margaret Oliphant, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, and the Spaces of the Seen and the Unseen', Women's Writing, 28.4, special issue on Spiritualism and the Supernatural (November 2021)
• '"‘Besieged by shadows": Scandinavian Detective Fiction in the Grey Zone', in Through a Glass Darkly: European History and Politics in Contemporary Crime Narratives, ed. by Monica Dall’Asta, Jacques Migozzi, Federico Pagello, Andrew Pepper (Palgrave, 2022?)
• 'Deaths in Venice: The Venetian Gothic of Vernon Lee and Thomas Mann', in Cities and Fantasy: Urban Imaginary Across Cultures, 1830–1930, ed. by Klaudia Lee and Sharin Schroeder (Edinburgh University Press, 2022?)

Current research

• Thomas Hardy, the Gothic and spatiality
• The cultural history of Clerkenwell
• Early film adaptations of R. L. Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Publications

Publications by category

Books (7)

  1. Vuohelainen, M., Margree, V. and Orrells, D. (Eds.), (2018). Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture, 1890-1915: Rereading the Fin de Siècle. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-2434-0.
  2. (2016). Interpreting Primo Levi. Palgrave Macmillan US. ISBN 978-1-349-56392-0.
  3. Marsh, R. (2016). The Complete Judith Lee Adventures. Vuohelainen, M. (Ed.), Richmond, VA: Valancourt Books. ISBN 978-1-943910-22-9.
  4. Vuohelainen, M. (2015). Richard Marsh. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-1-78316-341-0.
  5. Marsh, R. (2013). The Complete Adventures of Sam Briggs. Vuohelainen, M. (Ed.), Kansas City: Valancourt Books. ISBN 978-1-939140-01-2.
  6. Marsh, R. (2010). The Goddess: A Demon. Vuohelainen, M. (Ed.), Kansas City: Valancourt Books. ISBN 978-1-934555-06-4.
  7. Marsh, R. (2008). The Beetle: A Mystery. Vuohelainen, M. (Ed.), Kansas City: Valancourt Books. ISBN 978-1-934555-49-1.

Chapters (8)

  1. Vuohelainen, M. (2018). 'University Gothic, c. 1880-1910'. In Heholt, R. and Hughes, W. (Eds.), Gothic Britain: Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles (pp. 118–136). Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-1-78683-233-7.
  2. Vuohelainen, M. (2018). 'The most dangerous thing in England'? Detection, deviance and disability in Richard Marsh's Judith Lee stories. Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890-1915: Rereading the fin de siècle (pp. 63–84). ISBN 978-1-5261-2434-0.
  3. Vuohelainen, M. (2018). 'Judith Lee'. In Sandberg, E. (Ed.), 100 Greatest Literary Detectives (pp. 112–114). Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-7822-6.
  4. Margree, V., Orrells, D. and Vuohelainen, M. (2018). Introduction. Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture, 1890-1915: Rereading the Fin de Siecle (pp. 1–24). Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-2434-0.
  5. Vuohelainen, M. (2015). ‘The Concentrationary Universe: Primo Levi’s Spatial Consciousness'. In Vuohelainen, M. and Chapman, A. (Eds.), Interpreting Primo Levi: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 129–145). New York: Palgrave US. ISBN 978-1-137-44233-8.
  6. Vuohelainen, M. (2015). Introduction. In Vuohelainen, M. and Chapman, A. (Eds.), Interpreting Primo Levi: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 1–4). New York: Palgrave US. ISBN 978-1-137-44233-8.
  7. Vuohelainen, M. (2013). '“You Know Not of What You Speak”: Language, Identity and Xenophobia in Richard Marsh’s The Beetle: A Mystery (1897)’. In Tromp, M., Bachman, M. and Kaufman, H. (Eds.), Fear, Loathing and Victorian Xenophobia (pp. 312–330). Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press.
  8. Vuohelainen, M. (2006). ‘“Oh to Get out of that Room!”: Outcast London and the Gothic Twist in the Popular Fiction of Richard Marsh’. In Sayer, K. (Ed.), Victorian Space(s) (pp. 115–126). Leeds: Trinity and All Saints, University of Leeds.

Conference papers and proceedings (40)

  1. Vuohelainen, M. (2021). ‘"This part is not to be printed": Rudyard Kipling’s Gothic Short Fiction and the Periodical Press'. Kipling in the News: Journalism, Empire, and Decolonisation 9-10 September, City, University of London.
  2. Vuohelainen, M. (2020). 'Mapping Clerkenwell in Nineteenth-Century Genre Fiction' poster presentation. Mapping Space | Mapping Time | Mapping Texts Digital Conference 29 September, Lancaster University and British Library.
  3. Vuohelainen, M. (2020). 'An "odour of science": Arthur Conan Doyle’s Medical Gothic'. Conan Doyle in Edinburgh Digital Conference 24-25 September, Edinburgh Napier University.
  4. Vuohelainen, M. (2020). ‘Traveller’s Tales: Gothic Encounters and Environments in Rudyard Kipling’s Short Fiction’. Victorian Encounters and Environments, Victorian Popular Fiction Association 12th Annual (Virtual) Conference 15-17 July, University of Greenwich.
  5. Vuohelainen, M. (2019). '"Between slum and gaol"? Nineteenth-century Clerkenwell in George Gissing, Charles Booth and Contemporary Journalism'. North-West Long Nineteenth Century Seminar 6 November, Manchester Metropolitan University.
  6. Vuohelainen, M. (2019). 'Mapping the "Nether World": Charles Booth, George Gissing and Contemporary Journalists in Late-Nineteenth-Century Clerkenwell'. International Conference on the History of Cartography 12-19 July, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  7. Vuohelainen, M. (2019). Special panel introduction: 'The Spirit of Urban Exploration in Victorian Popular Fiction'. Victorian Popular Fiction Association Annual Conference: Mind, Matter(s), Spirit: Forms of Knowledge in Victorian Popular Fiction and Culture 8-10 July, University of Greenwich.
  8. Vuohelainen, M. (2019). '“Between Slum and Gaol”: Criminal Clerkenwell in Nineteenth-Century Fact and Fiction'. Captivating Criminality 6: Metamorphoses of Crime: Facts and Fictions 12-15 June, Pescara, Italy.
  9. Vuohelainen, M. (2018). 'The Lure of Illustration: The Case of the Strand Magazine'. Desubjugating Knowledges in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture: A Study Day in Celebration of Laurel Brake 13 October, Birkbeck, University of London.
  10. Vuohelainen, M. (2018). ‘“Business in the City”: Richard Marsh’s Judith Lee in the Strand Magazine’. Crime and the City Symposium 22 June, City, University of London.
  11. Vuohelainen, M. (2018). ‘A “cunning irregularity”: Measure and Excess in Thomas Hardy’s Gothic Poetry’. Measure and Excess: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Supernumerary Conference 13-15 June, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.
  12. Vuohelainen, M. (2018). ‘“[T]his great open-air ballroom”: Venice as a Stage in Vernon Lee’s “A Wicked Voice”’. City, Space and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century Performance 8-10 June, University of Warwick/ Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, Italy.
  13. Vuohelainen, M. (2017). ‘“A woman’s chances of striking directly at the enemy are few”: Women spies and resistance workers in the Strand Magazine, 1914-1918’. City, University of London.
  14. Vuohelainen, M. (2017). ‘[C]oming up with new information is part of the job description’: Journalist-investigators in Nordic crime fiction’. Europe House, London.
  15. Vuohelainen, M. (2017). ‘Brexit Gothic: The Return of the Invasion Narrative’. University of Portsmouth.
  16. Vuohelainen, M. (2016). ‘“A New Detective Method”: The Adventures of Richard Marsh's Female Detective Judith Lee in the Strand Magazine, 1911-16’. Edge Hill University.
  17. Vuohelainen, M. (2016). ‘“A New Detective Method”: The Adventures of Richard Marsh's Female Detective Judith Lee in the Strand Magazine, 1911-16’. Liverpool John Moores University.
  18. Vuohelainen, M. (2014). ‘“There is Mr Richard Marsh: he is prodigious”: Digital and statistical approaches to the study of popular fiction’. University of Kent.
  19. Vuohelainen, M. (2014). ‘“There is Mr Richard Marsh: he is prodigious”: Digital and statistical approaches to the study of popular fiction’. University of Hertfordshire and Knebworth House.
  20. Vuohelainen, M. (2013). ‘“A new detective method”: Strand Magazine, the Serial Detective Story, and Richard Marsh’s Judith Lee’. University of Salford.
  21. Vuohelainen, M. (2013). ‘Richard Marsh, Empire and Englishness’. Crawley Library/ Sussex University/ AHRC.
  22. Vuohelainen, M. (2012). ‘“Few authors had a wider public than Mr Richard Marsh”: Richard Marsh, the Strand Magazine and the Serial Short Story’. University of Brighton.
  23. Vuohelainen, M. (2012). ‘“Distilling is beautiful”: Primo Levi, Memory and the Oblique’. Edge Hill University.
  24. Vuohelainen, M. (2011). ‘The Papers of Richard Marsh: Professional Authorship and the Material Culture of Composition’. University of Birmingham.
  25. Vuohelainen, M. (2011). ‘“The trade of a writer”: Richard Marsh, Literary Production and the Periodical Market’. Canterbury Christ Church University.
  26. Vuohelainen, M. (2011). ‘Bestsellers 1: Dracula’. University of London.
  27. Vuohelainen, M. (2011). ‘Eavesdropping and lip-reading: The narrative Voice and the Female Detective in Richard Marsh’s “The Adventures of Judith Lee” (1911-16)’. Sheffield Hallam University.
  28. Vuohelainen, M. (2010). ‘The clerk from Walham Green: The Centrality of the Suburban in Richard Marsh’s “The Adventures of Sam Briggs” (1904-16)’. Institute of English Studies, University of London.
  29. Vuohelainen, M. (2010). ‘"Well Printed upon Good Paper": Material Culture and Brand Identity in G.A. Henty's Union Jack (1880-83)’. Yale University.
  30. Vuohelainen, M. (2009). ‘From “Vulgar” and “Impossible” to “Pre-eminently Readable”: Richard Marsh’s Shifting Critical Fortunes, 1893-1915’. Institute of English Studies, University of London.
  31. Vuohelainen, M. (2009). ‘“Exactly Where I Was I Could Not Tell”: Richard Marsh’s Urban Gothic Topographies’. Queen Mary, University of London.
  32. Vuohelainen, M. (2009). ‘“Cribb’d, Cabined, and Confined”: Claustrophobia in Richard Marsh’s Urban Gothic Fiction’. Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff.
  33. Vuohelainen, M. (2008). ‘“Forming Characters”: Union Jack and Niche Marketing for Boys in the 1880s’. University of Roehampton.
  34. Vuohelainen, M. (2008). ‘“Some Ghoulish Example of her Sex”: The Foreign Female Monster in Richard Marsh’s The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) and The Goddess: A Demon (1900)’. University of Leicester.
  35. Vuohelainen, M. (2008). ‘“Contributing to Most Things”: Richard Marsh, the Periodical Press and the Short-Story Collection’. Liverpool John Moores University and Edge Hill University.
  36. Vuohelainen, M. (2007). ‘“A Master of his Craft”: Richard Marsh, Literary Production and the Late-Victorian Canon’. University of Chester.
  37. Vuohelainen, M. (2006). ‘“Oh to Get Out of that Room!”: Outcast London and the Gothic Twist in the Popular Fiction of Richard Marsh’. Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds.
  38. Vuohelainen, M. (2005). ‘“That Night at Canterstone Jail Something Rather Curious Occurred”: Imprisonment and Fantasy in Richard Marsh’s Supernatural Prison Stories’. University of Exeter.
  39. Vuohelainen, M. (2004). ‘Richard Marsh’s The Beetle (1897): Popular Fiction in Turn-of-the-Century Britain’. University of Nottingham.
  40. Vuohelainen, M. (2004). ‘“It Was Hard to Believe that Such a Creature Could Be Human. And English!”: Representations of Poverty in the Popular Fiction of Richard Marsh’. University of Stirling.

Internet publication

  1. Vuohelainen, M. (2009). ‘Richard Marsh’, Victorian Fiction Research Guide 35
    http://victorianfictionresearchguides.org/richard-marsh/.

Journal articles (14)

  1. Vuohelainen, M. (2021). Traveller's Tales: Rudyard Kipling's Gothic Short Fiction. Gothic Studies, 23(2), pp. 181–200. doi:10.3366/gothic.2021.0093.
  2. Vuohelainen, M. (2020). 'From "native rags" to riches? Sartorial aspiration in The Nether World'. Gissing Journal, 54(4 - Supplement: Gissing in Vogue), pp. 35–37.
  3. Vuohelainen, M. (2020). ‘[B]etween power and the people’: Journalist-Investigators in Nordic Crime Fiction. Crime Fiction Studies, 1(1), pp. 59–78. doi:10.3366/cfs.2020.0007.
  4. Vuohelainen, M. (2019). “A strange enough region wherein to wander and muse”: Mapping Clerkenwell in Victorian Popular Fictions. Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, 1(2), pp. 3–32. doi:10.46911/qptd4864.
  5. Vuohelainen, M. (2019). '“The result can scarcely fail to amuse even the most gloomy of war pessimists”: The Strand Magazine and the First World War'. Victorian Periodicals Review, 52(2), pp. 389–418. doi:10.1353/vpr.2019.0023.
  6. Vuohelainen, M. and Liggins, E. (2019). 'Introduction: Reassessing the Strand Magazine, 1891–1918'. Victorian Periodicals Review, 52(2), pp. 221–234. doi:10.1353/vpr.2019.0015.
  7. Vuohelainen, M. (2018). ‘Deeds of Darkness’: Thomas Hardy and Murder. Humanities, 7(3), pp. 66–66. doi:10.3390/h7030066.
  8. Vuohelainen, M. (2014). 'From "Vulgar" and "Impossible" to "Pre-Eminently Readable": Richard Marsh's Critical Fortunes, 1893-1915'. English Studies, 95(3), pp. 278–301. doi:10.1080/0013838X.2014.897087.
  9. Vuohelainen, M. (2014). 'Bernard Heldmann and the Union Jack, 1880-83: The Making of a Professional Author'. Victorian Periodicals Review, 47(1), pp. 105–142. doi:10.1353/vpr.2014.0010.
  10. Vuohelainen, M. (2013). '"Contributing to most things": Richard Marsh, Literary Production, and the Fin de Siècle Periodicals Market'. Victorian Periodicals Review, 46(3), pp. 401–422.
  11. Vuohelainen, M. (2010). ‘“Cribb’d, Cabined and Confined”: Fear, Claustrophobia and Modernity in Richard Marsh’s Urban Gothic Fiction’. The Journal of Literature and Science, 3(1), pp. 23–36. doi:10.12929/jls.03.1.03.

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  12. Vuohelainen, M. (2008). ‘“Tales and Adventures”: G.A. Henty’s Union Jack and the Competitive World of Publishing for Boys in the 1880s’. Journal of Popular Narrative Media, 1(2), pp. 183–196.
  13. Vuohelainen, M. (2007). Distorting the Genre, Defining the Audience, Detecting the Author: Richard Marsh's "For Debt" (1902). Clues: A Journal of Detection, 25(4), pp. 17–26. doi:10.3200/clus.25.4.17-26.
  14. Vuohelainen, M. (2006). ‘Richard Marsh’s The Beetle (1897): A Late-Victorian Popular Novel’. Working With English: medieval and modern language, literature and drama, 2(1), pp. 89–100.

Other (13)

  1. Vuohelainen, M. and Liggins, E. (2019). Victorian Periodicals Review, 52.2: The Strand Magazine, 1891-1918 (special issue).

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  2. Vuohelainen, M. (2019). Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, 1.2: 'Mapping Victorian Popular Fictions' (special issue).

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  3. Vuohelainen, M. (2018). 'Alcoholism', 'Carmilla', ‘Richard Marsh', 'Strand Magazine', in Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction, edited by Kevin A. Morrison (McFarland, 2018), pp. 5-7, 37-38, 148, 238-39.
  4. Vuohelainen, M. (2018). Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century by Anne Stiles (review).
  5. Vuohelainen, M. (2018). Rudyard Kipling’s Fiction: Mapping Psychic Spaces by Lizzy Welby (review).
  6. Vuohelainen, M. (2017). 'The Oslo Crime Files: Medusa, Death by Water, Fireraiser and Certain Signs That You Are Dead by Torkil Damhaug' (review).

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  7. Vuohelainen, M. (2017). 'Cruel Is the Night by Karo Hämäläinen' (review).

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  8. Vuohelainen, M. (2015). 'Matthew Rubery, The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News' (review).
  9. Vuohelainen, M. (2013). 'Lara Baker Whelan, Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era' (review).
  10. Vuohelainen, M. (2012). 'Laurel Brake & Marysa Demoor (eds), The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century: Picture and Press' (review).
  11. Vuohelainen, M. (2012). 'David Trotter, The Uses of Phobia: Essays on Literature and Film (Critical Quarterly)' (review).
  12. Vuohelainen, M. (2011). 'Tim Killick, British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Rise of the Tale' (review).
  13. Vuohelainen, M. (2011). 'Patricia Pulham, Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales' (review).