Anne Karhio is a graduate of the University of Helsinki and the National University of Ireland, Galway. She is currently an Irish Research Council Laureate Project Fellow at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the project “Republic of Conscience: Human Rights and Modern Irish Poetry”. She has studied and worked in several universities in Finland, France, Norway and Ireland, and also contributes to the ERC-funded research project on Machine Vision at the University of Bergen. Her previous research project Virtual Landscapes: New Media Technologies and the Poetics of Place in Recent Irish Poetry was co-funded by the Irish Research Council and the European Commission via Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. She has published widely on contemporary Irish poetry, the poetics of place and space, and digital literature and aesthetics, and is the author of ‘Slight Return’: Paul Muldoon’s Poetics of Place (Peter Lang, 2017) and co-editor of Crisis and Contemporary Poetry (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011).