Oral Tradition and Book Culture

Pertti Anttonen (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4866-9910) is Professor of Cultural Studies, especially Folklore Studies at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus (since 2014). His main interests in research and teaching include folklore and nationalism, politics of history, heritage and tradition, ethnopoetics and the textual representation of orality, and the rites of passage theory. He has published articles on these topics in both Finnish and international journals and research anthologies. His major publication so far is Tradition rough Modernity: Postmodernism and the Nation-State in Folklore Scholarship (2005), soon to be published in Greek and Chinese translation.

Cecilia af Forselles is Director of e Library of the Finnish Literature Society, PhD and Historian. Her recent research has dealt with literary culture and currents of thought, the cultural history of translations of the Kalevala, reading culture, changes in the academic community, and the rise of oral culture and the strengthening of natural history as topics of academic research in the 18th century. Her latest edited book The Emergence of Finnish Book and Reading Culture in the 1700s (2011) with Tuija Laine as well as her recent articles mainly deal with the history of the book and the press.

Kirsti Salmi-Niklander (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0552-1801) is University Lecturer in Folklore Studies at the Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki. She has published a monograph, articles, edited books and theme issues in the elds of oral history research, working-class culture, immigrant culture and history of youth. Her long-term research has focused on hand-written newspapers as an alternative medium in 19th and early 20th-century Finland. One of her recent publications is the theme issue “International Inuences in Finnish Working-Class Literature and its Research” in Journal of Finnish Studies 18 (2) 2015, co-edited with Kati Launis.