Sonja Pyykkö
Biographical Information
Sonja Pyykkö is a postdoctoral researcher at the Anglophone Studies department at UDE. She completed her Ph.D. in February 2025 at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, with a dissertation titled “Scenes of Judgement: Confession in Postmodern American Fiction—Forms, Ethics, Politics.” Currently, she is working on a second book project that focuses on tracing the connection between anxiety and the changing environmental consciousness in early modern literature, -theology, and -philosophy. She studied Comparative Literature, English Literature, and British Studies at the University of Turku, Tampere University, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She was born in Turku, Finland, and has lived in Berlin since 2015.
Geisteswissenschaften/Anglistik/Amerikanistik
45141 Essen
Functions
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Wiss. Mitarbeiterinnen/Mitarbeiter, Anglistik: Nordamerikastudien II - North American Cultural Studies
Current lectures
No current lectures.
Past lectures (max. 10)
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WiSe 2025
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SoSe 2025
The following publications are listed in the online university bibliography of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Further information may also be found on the person's personal web pages.
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Fictions of Distance in Recent American Literature, with Fabian Eggers, Freie Universität Berlin. Special Issue of AmLit – American Literatures, vol. 2, no. 1, 2022. https://amlit.eu/index.php/amlit/issue/view/3.
Peer-reviewed articles
“Disclosing Structures: Scenes of Confession in Pale Fire.” Nabokov Studies, vol. 19, 2023–24, pp. 23–46, DOI: 10.1353/nab.2023.a937381
“Longing to Belong: Disease, Nostalgia, and Exile in Ling Ma’s Severance.” AmLit – American Literatures, vol. 2, no. 1, 2022, pp. 62–79, DOI: 10.25364/27.2:2022.1.4
Book chapters
“Perceptions of Failure in Saving Agnes and Second Place.” Rachel Cusk, edited by Roberta Garrett and Liam Harrison, Contemporary Critical Perspectives, Bloomsbury, 2024, pp. 75–92, DOI: 10.5040/9781350371019.ch-004.
“Confession.” Stichwörter für die kritische Praxis, edited by Michel Chaouli et al., Diaphanes, 2023, pp. 55–70.
- Affect and the History of Emotions
- Confession in American Literature and Culture
- Narratives of Deception and Fraud
- Early American Literature
- Environmental Humanities
- Irony and Parody
- Literary Ethics and -Epistemology
- Literary Theory