Aino-Kaisa Koistinen
Finland
research interests: creative writing, collective writing, experimental writing, more than human, speculation, poetics, feminist posthumanities, ecofeminism, environmental writing, collective research in arts, collaborative writing, speculative fiction, speculative feminism, animal ethics, affect, artist pedagogy, feminist pedagogy, ecopedagogy, ecojustice pedagogy, art as activism, environmental pedagogy, art writing, artivism, Writing as artistic research, artistic research on writing, language-based artistic research, practice-based literary studies
affiliation: University researcher, University of the Arts Helsinki Research Institute
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Dr. Aino-Kaisa Koistinen (she/they) is a writer, scholar, and teacher of creative writing. In their creative writing, Koistinen works mostly with poetry, speculative fiction, and different kinds of more-than-human practices. They hold an MA in Literary Studies from the University of Oulu, PhD in Contemporary Culture Studies from the University of Jyväskylä, and Title of Docent in Media Culture from the University of Turku. Moreover, Koistinen has graduated from the Tampere Viita-akatemia three-year creative writing school. As a scholar, Koistinen has worked extensively in the fields of gender studies, media and cultural studies, speculative fiction studies, feminist pedagogy, affect studies, creative writing, and feminist posthumanities. Their work most often strives to find ethical ways to co-exist with more-than-human others on our shared planet. Currently, Koistinen works as University researcher in the University of the Arts Helsinki Research Institute, where their work deals with artistic thinking, namely through creative writing, and artist pedagogy. In 2021, Koistinen's poetry collection Uhanalaiset ja silmälläpidettävät was published by Palladium Kirjat. Their academic and poetic works often focuses on women, cats, and other others.