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I am postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Turku, a cultural historian interested in various kinds of autobiographical texts from letters and diaries to published autobiographies. I have written about cultural history of women’s writing, cultural history of psychiatry, history of melancholia. My monograph (PhD thesis) analyzed women’s autobiographical texts on melancholia in the late nineteenth century Scandinavia. At the moment I am involved in two research projects, one of them focuses on written madness – mental illness in Finnish autobiographies and novels. The other one focuses on the ‘inner child’ in Finnish autobiographical literature in the context of emerging Finnish 'mind sciences'.