Katve-Kaisa Kontturi Author & Editor

Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Associate Professor (Docent) of Contemporary Art Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She specialises in feminist art and theory, processes of making and encountering art, new materialist methodologies, and art-based research, and is the author of Ways of Following: Art, Materiality, Collaboration (2018).

Taru Leppänen is Professor of Gender Studies at the Åbo Akademi University. Her research interests include music and sound, feminist new materialisms, intersectionality, and children’s musical practices. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph Politics of Feminist New Materialisms at Music Playschools: Musicking in the Middle.

Tara Mehrabi, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the Social and Psychological Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden. Her research is situated in feminist technoscience studies, feminist new materialisms, intersectionality, gender studies, and queer death studies. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming Handbook of Queer Death Studies.

Milla Tiainen, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Turku and Associate Professor (Docent) of Musicology at the University of Helsinki. She has published widely on musical performance research, feminist and ecocritical studies of music and sound, and new materialist and posthumanist research approaches to the arts. Recently, she is co-editor of Mattering Voices: Studying Voice through New Materialisms (forthcoming).