My research centres on Finnish cinema and television history as well as the construction of gender, nation and sexuality in audiovisual culture. For a decade, the main focus of my research has been the cultural construction of emotions and affects in the public sphere, and the metatheoretical question of ‘an affective turn’ not only in media studies but also in gender and cultural studies more widely. In my recent works and on-going projects, I have moved to study affectivity as a mode of cultural memory and historiography, and as a key issue of mediated politics in contemporary public sphere.
