Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja, Ph.D., is a lecturer in Art History at the University of Lapland:

"My research interest in winter in Lapland developed when I was working on my licentiate thesis on the art of J-K. Kyyhkynen. It then deepened in my doctoral dissertation, which dealt with the development of the image of Lapland in Finnish art before the Second World War. In my free time, my relationship to winter still follows children’s need–making snowmen, pushing kick-sledges, skiing, coasting and skating. Personally, I like the winter and not even the darkness of kaamos really bothers me."

Tuija.Hautala-Hirvioja@ulapland.fi