Docents

Ritva Hartama-Heinonen is in Translation Studies. Her research focuses on translation studies (general and semiotic translation theory, semiotic approaches to translation, intracultural translation, translator training), and semiotics (semiotics of translation, Charles S. Peirce's semeiotic, general semiotics). 

Nely Keinänen is Docent in English Philology and Translation studies. She teaches Shakespeare, English literature, and Translation from Finnish into English in the at the University of Helsinki. Her areas of expertise include Shakespeare (including Shakespeare in Finland), English renaissance drama and poetry, early modern English women writers, and drama translation. 

Tuija Kinnunen is in Translation Studies at the University of Helsinki and Senior Lecturer at Tampere University. Tuija Kinnunen has conducted research on the translation of legal texts and the use of translations as evidence in court proceedings, as well as on the role of interpreters, interprofessional collaboration, and multimodality in legal interpreting. She has also written about linguistic accessibility and conducted research on multilingual crisis communication. 

Igor Kudashev is Docent in Russian Translation at the University of Helsinki and Senior Lecturer of Russian Language and Translation Studies at Tampere University. 

Outi Paloposki is professor emerita of English at the University of Turku, School of Languages and Translation Studies. 

Paloposki defended her PhD thesis Variation in Translation: Literary Translation into Finnish in 1809-1850 at the University of Helsinki in 2002. She is interested in retranslation, paratexts, and Swedish-Finnish translation exchanges. Recently she has been researching translators’ archives and what they can tell about the social networks and working environments of translators. She co-edited the two-volume Finnish translation history (2007), and the history of non-fiction translation in Finland (2013), published by the Finnish Literature Society.

Päivi Pasanen is Docent in Translation Studies and was Senior Lecturer of Russian Translation. Her research interests include translation pedagogy, Frame-based Terminology, and terminology in everyday life. Currently, Pasanen participated in the project (link to information in Finnish). 

Leena Salmi is Docent in Translation Studies at the University of Helsinki and at the University of Turku.

Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov is at the University of Turku and Docent in Translation Studies at the University of Helsinki. She specializes in 18th-century translation studies.