Editorial Team

You can contact all editors-in-chief via the email address editorsinchief(at)finfar(dot)org.
You can contact the reviews editor via the email address reviews(at)finfar.org.

Editors-in-chief

  • Elise Kraatila is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tampere Institute for Advanced Study (Tampere University). Her current research is concerned with speculative storytelling as an epistemic and rhetorical practice in 21st-century fiction and nonfiction. She is particularly interested how speculative “what if?” narratives, across genres from fantasy and science fiction to science communication and journalism, engage with the atmosphere of uncertainty that pervades our contemporary media environments. (Editor-in-chief from issue 1/2024 on.)
  • Jessica Norledge is Assistant Professor in Stylistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is a stylistician with expertise in the cognitive poetics of emotion and the language of dystopia. She has published on feminist dystopia, dystopian minds, and worlds theories in speculative fiction and is the author of The Language of Dystopia (Palgrave, 2022). (Editor-in-chief from issue 1/2025 on.)
  • Markus Laukkanen is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tampere University. His doctoral dissertation, which he defended in 2025, concerns narrative authority and the distribution of authorship in the storytelling environment of the internet. His articles have appeared in journals such as Style, Frontiers of Narrative Studies, and Acta Philologica, and he has published chapters in peer-reviewed scholarly collections (Bloomsbury Academic; SKS). Laukkanen's research interests include narratology, the study of fantasy, interactive digital narratives, social media studies, culture war narratives, and journalistic narrative practices. (Editor-in-chief from issue 1/2026 on.)

Reviews Editor

  • Sunna Kokkonen is a doctoral researcher at the Central European University. Her ongoing dissertation demonstrates how fish co-shape politics at a famous Arctic salmon river, Njauddâm/Näätämö/Neidenelva. She is interested in more-than-human political agencies in both real and fictional worlds. (Reviews editor for Fafnir from issue 1/2026 on, all queries concerning reviews may be sent to reviews(at)finfar.org.)

Managing Editor

  • Eero Suoranta is a doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki where his work focuses on alienation in contemporary Chinese science fiction. He has also translated Chinese SF into Finnish, worked as a freelance journalist and literary critic, and been featured as an expert on Chinese literature and philosophy by the Finnish public broadcasting company YLE.

Former Editors-in-chief

  • Päivi Väätänen (issues 1/2014‒4/2015)
  • Hanna-Riikka Roine (issues 1/2014‒3/2016)
  • Katja Kontturi (guest editor, issue 4/2016)
  • Jyrki Korpua (issues 1/2014–3–4/2017)
  • Aino-Kaisa Koistinen (issues 1/2016–2/2018)
  • Juha Raipola (guest editor, issue 2/2019)
  • Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (issues 1/2017–2/2020)
  • Esko Suoranta (issues 1/2019–2/2021)
  • Laura E. Goodin (issues 1/2018–1/2022)
  • Hanna-Riikka Roine (guest editor, issue 2/2022)
  • Michael Godhe (guest editor, issue 2/2022)
  • Essi Varis (issues 1/2021-2/2023)
  • Elizabeth Oakes (issues 1/2022-1-2/2024)
  • Merve Tabur (issues 1/2023-2/2025)

Former Reviews Editors

  • Dennis Wilson Wise (1/2018–2/2022)
  • Jari Käkelä (1/2023–2/2025)

Former Managing Editors

  • Juri Timonen (issues 1/2014‒4/2016)
  • Tanja Välisalo (locum, issues 4/2016‒1/2017)
  • Hedda Molland (issue 2/2017)
  • Jaana Hakala (issues 3–4/2017–2/2023)

Advisory Board

  • Merja Polvinen, University of Helsinki, Chair
  • Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, University of Oslo
  • Stefan Ekman, University of Gothenburg
  • Laura E. Goodin (independent researcher)
  • Ingvil Hellstrand, University of Stavanger
  • Irma Hirsjärvi, University of Jyväskylä
  • Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, University of Jyväskylä
  • Jyrki Korpua, University of Oulu
  • Urpo Kovala, University of Jyväskylä
  • Frans Mäyrä, Tampere University
  • Jerry Määttä, Uppsala University
  • Cheryl Morgan (publisher and critic)
  • Sari Polvinen, University of Helsinki
  • Liisa Rantalaiho, Tampere University
  • Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University London
  • Hanna-Riikka Roine, University of Bergen
  • Johan Schimanski, University of Oslo
  • Sofia Sjö, Åbo Akademi University
  • Peter Stockwell, University of Nottingham
  • Esko Suoranta, Tampere University
  • Sanna Tapionkaski, University of Jyväskylä
  • Päivi Väätänen, University of Helsinki
  • Essi Varis, University of Helsinki
  • Elizabeth Oakes, University of Helsinki