Tero Eljas Vanhanen

Tero Eljas Vanhanen is a literary scholar and cultural critic specializing in the role of emotions in art, entertainment, and artertainment, as well as in the study of the fissures and affinities between elite and popular culture. Currently, he is a teacher and researcher in Comparative literature at the Universities of Turku and Helsinki. He teaches subjects ranging from Aristotle's poetics to contemporary popular culture to the problem of evil in literary history. He is a member of the board...See more

Tero Eljas Vanhanen is a literary scholar and cultural critic specializing in the role of emotions in art, entertainment, and artertainment, as well as in the study of the fissures and affinities between elite and popular culture. Currently, he is a teacher and researcher in Comparative literature at the Universities of Turku and Helsinki. He teaches subjects ranging from Aristotle's poetics to contemporary popular culture to the problem of evil in literary history. He is a member of the board of Young Academy Finland, an elite invitation-only division of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Previously, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-editor (with Peter Swirski) of When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow: Popular Culture and the Rise of Nobrow. His articles have appeared in journals such as Philosophy and Literature, SubStance, and The Journal of American Studies. He has also contributed to several scholarly collections, including Values of Literature in Brill's Value Inquiry Book Series. Outside the academia, he is a rhetoric coach hosting workshops for businesses and organizations on how to utilize storytelling and post-classical rhetoric to achieve their communication goals. See less