Anne Sofia Karhio

Postdoctoral researcher, holder of the ELEVATE Irish Research Council International Career Development Fellowship, co-funded by Marie Curie Actions. In 2014-2016, she is based in the University of Bergen, Norway, where she is member of the Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group. She is a graduate of the University of Helsinki and the National University of Ireland, Galway.

The current research project "Virtual Landscapes? New Media Technologies and the Poetics of Place" in recent Irish poetry focuses on the impact of new media technologies on literary representations of landscape in Irish poetic culture. The project covers poetry in both print and digital formats and also examines the relationship of poetry to visual and audiovisual arts, music and other forms of artistic production.