Laura Tarkka

Laura Tarkka

Postdoctoral Researcher
Unit
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department / Division
Department of History and Ethnology
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Biography

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project 'De-centring political economy in the eighteenth century: rethinking growth, wealth, and welfare in the Swedish Empire' led by associate professor Ere Nokkala.

My role in this project is to examine how eighteenth-century periodicals mediated, disseminated, negotiated, and socialized knowledge about improvement.

My research interests also include translation history, political uses of travel writing, and notions of national character.