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Aino Haataja is a Doctoral Student and University Teacher at the Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology in the Department of Languages at Åbo Akademi University. She holds a BA and MA from the University of Turku, with a major in English and minors in French and pedagogical studies. Her Master’s studies included an exchange at Trinity College Dublin, where she first encountered Maria Edgeworth, the focus of her doctoral research.
Her research centers on "Exploring 'what is called the world': Aspects of Worldliness in Maria Edgeworth's Fiction", examining sociability, moral philosophy, and classical rural happiness theories. This work contextualizes Edgeworth’s critique of aristocratic sociability within broader intellectual histories.
Teaching experience includes medieval English literature modules, combining lectures with tutorials on texts like Beowulf and The York Play of the Crucifixion. She has also engaged with higher education pedagogy, digital tools, and thesis supervision. In 2024–2025, she co-organized the Nordic Association of English Studies/European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies conference. Her research interests span 18th- and 19th-century women’s writing and the intersection of literature with moral philosophy.
