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Research interests
Jason Finch is Associate Professor, English Language and Literature at Åbo Akademi University, and Principal Investigator for Finland on the ERC-funded project 'Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities: Narrating, Experiencing, Contesting' (PUTSPACE; 2019-22). He has written or co-edited ten books and special issues, including Deep Locational Criticism (Benjamins, 2016), Literatures of Urban Possibility (Palgrave, co-edited, 2021) and The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History (Routledge, co-edited 2020). Jason is a co-founder of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS) and from 2018–21 served as its President. His current research focuses on the literary urban history of London (focusing on representations of housing and public transport), mediations of the urbanity of British and US cities which boomed in the nineteenth century, and the practice of literary urban studies.
Biography
Jason Finch was born in London in 1970. In the UK he was educated at the University of Birmingham (BA, 1991) and the University of Oxford (MPhil, 1994). Between 1996 and 1998 he worked as an Assistant Editor on the third edition revisions of the Oxford English Dictionary. From 2002 until 2005 he worked at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University. He has been at Åbo Akademi University since 2005.
Teaching
Since 2006, Jason has taught courses in every aspect of English literary studies in the department of English Language and Literature at Åbo Akademi University, at levels ranging from first year to Master's. He has supervised nearly 30 BA and MA theses and nine PhD theses, three as main supervisor (two completed, seven in progress, as of October 2020). He also has university teaching experience in Estonia (Tallinn University) and the UK (Brasenose College, Oxford).
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Åbo Akademi University
1 Aug 2005 → 15 Apr 2011
Award Date: 15 Jun 2011
Master, University of Oxford
1 Oct 1992 → 1 Jul 1994
Award Date: 1 Nov 1994
Bachelor, University of Birmingham
1 Oct 1988 → 1 Jul 1991
Award Date: 15 Jul 1991
External positions
Adjunct Professor, University of Turku
1 Jan 2016 → …
Keywords
- PR English literature
- city
- London
- urban studies
- housing
- transport
- public space
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PUTSPACE: Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities: Narrating, Experiencing, Contesting
01/05/19 → 28/02/23
Project: Other
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Fragile Cities, Transatlantic and Post-Industrial: A Study in Urban Humanities
01/08/20 → 31/03/22
Project: Foundation
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The Discursive Construction of the 'London Slum' 1820-1960: A Literary History
01/08/12 → 31/07/15
Project: Research
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Deep Locational Criticism. Imaginative Place in Literary Research and Teaching
Finch, J., 2016, John benjamins.Research output: Book/Journal/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
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Teaching Literary Urban Studies
Ameel, L., Bar-Itzhak, C., Garcia, P., Finch, J., Laine, S., Lanigan, L., Lappela, A., Rajaniemi, J. & Salmela, M., 10 Aug 2022, The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies. Ameel, L. (ed.). RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific
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Buried Cities: Introduction
Finch, J. & Norrman, E., 30 Jun 2021, In: Literary Geographies. 7, 1, p. 1-4 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Disinterring Slum-Clearance London: Expertise and User Perspectives in the 1930s Maritime East End
Finch, J. & Kelly, J., 30 Jun 2021, In: Literary Geographies. 7, 1, p. 127-145 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Lines Through Public Transport and Public Space
Finch, J. & Tuvikene, T., 15 Mar 2021, Lines. Peterle, G. (ed.). Padua: BeccoGiallo, p. 5-6Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific
Prizes
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2021 Excellence Award for Collaborative Research
Finch, Jason (Recipient), Ameel, L. (Recipient) & Salmela, M. (Recipient), 30 Nov 2023
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
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Post-Victorian Tremors: Urban Mobility in Woolf’s The Years
Jason Finch (Speaker)
17 Feb 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Peter Friedrich
Jason Finch (Host)
1 Jan 2022 → 15 Jun 2022Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
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‘A Number 9 Demonstrates Why Trams Would Not Survive’: How Public Transport Closure Representations Serve Political Ends
Jason Finch (Speaker)
21 Apr 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference presentation
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The Making of Neoliberal London: Literature, Mobilities and the City
Jason Finch (Speaker)
25 Mar 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Public or invited talk
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University of Padua
Jason Finch (Visiting researcher)
22 Mar 2022 → 31 Mar 2022Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution
Press / Media
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Han läser staden - från gatans asfalt till det som finns i våra tankar
01/11/21
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