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Sofia Bister is a researcher affiliated with the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She holds a post-graduate study right and is actively engaged as a Grant researcher within the Kone Foundation-funded project Toislajisia tuntosarvia: Hyönteisten materiaalisuus kirjallisuudessa ekologisten kriisien aikana (2023–2028). Her work intersects literature, visual arts, and posthumanist theory.
Research Focus includes insects in contemporary literature, ecological crises, multispecies relations, and feminist posthumanist theory. She explores how nonhuman agency and materiality challenge traditional human-centric frameworks in literature, particularly through art forms like Zhu Yingchun’s The Language of Bugs, which reimagines writing as interspecies collaboration.
Recent publications highlight her engagement with posthumanist methodologies and ecological themes. Her 2024 article in Trace examines nonhuman agency in Zhu Yingchun’s work, while her 2022 conference report on Queer Tentacles seminar bridges queer theory, arts, and activism.
Affiliations include the Literature follow-up group (MUTKU), the KIR School of Resource Wisdom, and the JYU.Wisdom profiling area. She contributes to interdisciplinary research on environmental representation and multispecies ethics.
