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Dr Minna Vuohelainen

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School of Communication & Creativity Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries

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Dr Minna Vuohelainen is a Reader in English at City St George's, University of London, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

Minna's academic interests are underpinned by a commitment to interdisciplinarity. Her primary research interests lie in fin-de-siècle popular and print culture (c. 1880-1920), genre studies (particularly Gothic and crime), London literatures, spatial theory, and the medical humanities. She is also interested in literatures of conflict, and in the continuing appeal of Victorian popular culture as seen in neo-Victorian adaptations and rewritings. She is currently working on a Knowledge Exchange project focused on the cultural history and heritage of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington.

Qualifications

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Research Degree Supervision, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom, March 2010
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning Support in Higher Education, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom, September 2009
  • PhD English ('The Popular Fiction of Richard Marsh: Literary Production, Genre, Audience’), Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom, December 2007
  • MA English (Twentieth-Century Studies), King's College London, United Kingdom, December 2001
  • BSc International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, July 2000

Expertise

Geographic Areas

  • Europe

Publications

Publications by category

Books (7)

Chapters (10)

Conference papers and proceedings (44)

  • Vuohelainen, M. (2024). ‘"A dirtier or more wretched place he had never seen": Putting Dickens on a Cultural Map of Clerkenwell'. Dickens Studies Seminar Series 28 November, University of Buckingham.
  • Vuohelainen, M. (2024). 'London’s "shadowland": Clerkenwell in Victorian Popular Culture'. Places and Spaces in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture: Victorian Popular Fiction Association's 16th Annual Conference 15-17 July, Canterbury Christ Church University.
  • Vuohelainen, M. (2024). 'The Clerkenwell News: Place, Community, Identity'. Place in the Victorian Periodical Press: Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Annual Conference 13-15 June, University of Stirling.
  • Vuohelainen, M. (2022). With Dickens in Clerkenwell. 27th Annual Dickens Society Symposium: Our Dickens 8-10 July, City, University of London.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“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.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘[C]oming up with new information is part of the job description’: Journalist-investigators in Nordic crime fiction’. Europe House, London.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘Brexit Gothic: The Return of the Invasion Narrative’. University of Portsmouth.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“A New Detective Method”: The Adventures of Richard Marsh's Female Detective Judith Lee in the Strand Magazine, 1911-16’. Edge Hill University.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“A New Detective Method”: The Adventures of Richard Marsh's Female Detective Judith Lee in the Strand Magazine, 1911-16’. Liverpool John Moores University.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“There is Mr Richard Marsh: he is prodigious”: Digital and statistical approaches to the study of popular fiction’. University of Kent.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“There is Mr Richard Marsh: he is prodigious”: Digital and statistical approaches to the study of popular fiction’. University of Hertfordshire and Knebworth House.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“A new detective method”: Strand Magazine, the Serial Detective Story, and Richard Marsh’s Judith Lee’. University of Salford.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘Richard Marsh, Empire and Englishness’. Crawley Library/ Sussex University/ AHRC.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“Few authors had a wider public than Mr Richard Marsh”: Richard Marsh, the Strand Magazine and the Serial Short Story’. University of Brighton.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“Distilling is beautiful”: Primo Levi, Memory and the Oblique’. Edge Hill University.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘The Papers of Richard Marsh: Professional Authorship and the Material Culture of Composition’. University of Birmingham.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“The trade of a writer”: Richard Marsh, Literary Production and the Periodical Market’. Canterbury Christ Church University.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘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.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘Bestsellers 1: Dracula’. University of London.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘"Well Printed upon Good Paper": Material Culture and Brand Identity in G.A. Henty's Union Jack (1880-83)’. Yale University.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘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.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘From “Vulgar” and “Impossible” to “Pre-eminently Readable”: Richard Marsh’s Shifting Critical Fortunes, 1893-1915’. Institute of English Studies, University of London.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“Exactly Where I Was I Could Not Tell”: Richard Marsh’s Urban Gothic Topographies’. Queen Mary, University of London.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“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.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“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.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“Forming Characters”: Union Jack and Niche Marketing for Boys in the 1880s’. University of Roehampton.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“Contributing to Most Things”: Richard Marsh, the Periodical Press and the Short-Story Collection’. Liverpool John Moores University and Edge Hill University.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“A Master of his Craft”: Richard Marsh, Literary Production and the Late-Victorian Canon’. University of Chester.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“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.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“That Night at Canterstone Jail Something Rather Curious Occurred”: Imprisonment and Fantasy in Richard Marsh’s Supernatural Prison Stories’. University of Exeter.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘Richard Marsh’s The Beetle (1897): Popular Fiction in Turn-of-the-Century Britain’. University of Nottingham.
  • Vuohelainen, M. ‘“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 publications (3)

Journal articles (17)

Other (13)

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

    [Victorian Popular Fiction Association]

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

    [Johns Hopkins University Press]

  • 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.
  • Vuohelainen, M.(2018). Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century by Anne Stiles (review).
  • Vuohelainen, M.(2018). Rudyard Kipling’s Fiction: Mapping Psychic Spaces by Lizzy Welby (review).
  • Vuohelainen, M.(2017). 'The Oslo Crime Files: Medusa, Death by Water, Fireraiser and Certain Signs That You Are Dead by Torkil Damhaug' (review).

    [publisher’s website]

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

    [publisher’s website]

  • Vuohelainen, M.(2015). 'Matthew Rubery, The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News' (review).
  • Vuohelainen, M.(2013). 'Lara Baker Whelan, Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era' (review).
  • Vuohelainen, M.(2012). 'Laurel Brake & Marysa Demoor (eds), The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century: Picture and Press' (review).
  • Vuohelainen, M.(2012). 'David Trotter, The Uses of Phobia: Essays on Literature and Film (Critical Quarterly)' (review).
  • Vuohelainen, M.(2011). 'Tim Killick, British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Rise of the Tale' (review).
  • Humanities: 'Literature and Medicine' (special issue).

    [MDPI AG]