Lotta Leiwo (Master of Arts in Folklore Studies, University of Helsinki) is specialized in handwritten and historical newspapers from 1880s to 1920s, and working-class and Finnish settler-migrants in North America.
Research interests: nature, climate, weather, settler colonialism and spatial history.
In her MA thesis ”’Luontokin näkyy olevan köyhälistöä vastaan’ Luonto kolmantena tilana Toveritar-lehden paikkakuntakirjeissä 1916-1917” [”’Even the nature seems to be against the poor’ Nature as Thirdspace in newspaper Toveritar’s local letters 1916-1917”] Leiwo studied North American Finnish women’s and children’s spatiality, vernacular writing and political rhetoric concerning nature.
Currently Leiwo is planning her dissertation and working as the research assistant in the Kone Foundation funded project “T-Bone Slim and the transnational poetics of the migrant left in North America” (2022-2023). In the project Leiwo is working closely with the internationa
l research team and building T-Bone Slim database and corpus to be published on Language Bank of Finland in fall 2023/ early 2024.
Contact:
lotta.leiwo(at)helsinki.fi
+358 50 412 5749
Lotta Leiwo in media:
“Aikalaiskuvauksissa kerrotaan, miten kahdeksan hengen ryhmä nousi maihin – Heitä vastassa oli äreä vanha mies, joka uhkasi ajaa porukan tiehensä” HS Helsinki 27.8.2021
“Mölylä. Se sana sisältää meidän oloissamme paljon” Herttoniemeläinen 2021
“Metsässä kaikki on aina oikein” Napakaira 2019