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Roman Kushnir

Roman Kushnir, MA, is a doctoral student at the Department of Language and Communication Studies at the University of JyvŠskylŠ, Finland. The major is English studies. His research focuses on the construction of transcultural identity in modern Finnish American fiction. He pays special attention to the roles of both material and non-material cultural practices in this construction such as food, language, music and sport. His fields of interest include history of Nordic American immigration, Nordic American immigrant cultures and literatures, food studies, identity studies and ethnic studies.

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