Faculty Member, Communication, Film and Media
Senior Lecturer
About
Milla's background is in music scholarship in such interdisciplinary areas as 'New' and Feminist Musicology. Her Licentiate of Philosophy thesis examined the identities of contemporary composers in media texts with a special emphasis on the ways in which the gendered Romantic notions of the artist, and autonomous artwork still persist in the cultural discourses surrounding the arts. This research resulted in the sole authored book Säveltäjän sijainnit ("Locating the Composer," 2005). Milla's current interests range from the connections of cinema and opera to so-called post-representational cultural analysis and media theory; 'new materialist' approaches to the body and sexual difference; questions of affect and aesthetics as politics; and the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Rosi Braidotti, Elizabeth Grosz, Brian Massumi, and Daniel Stern. Milla's just completed PhD explores operatic performing as a multimedia event through which it is possible to rethink voice and sound, the body, sexual difference, and perception in terms of intensity and temporality.
She has published on the above topics in a number of books and peer-reviewed journals in Finnish. Her work in English has appeared or is forthcoming for instance in the collections Sonic Interventions (Rodopi), Sonic Mediations (Cambridge Scholars Press), and Carnal Knowledge (IB Tauris). Her next research project will map the conjunctions of male bodies, new forms of sexuality and desire, technology, and capitalism in popular music and media.
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