I’m professor of Media Studies at University of Turku. My work revolves around internet research, affect inquiry and critical sexuality studies while also broadening to media history, materiality and pornography.
My recent book-length projects include an anally researched pandemic film historical inquiry, Yul Brynner: Exoticism, Cosmopolitanism and Screen Masculinity with Edinburgh University Press in 2023 and our coauthored book with Jenny Sundén and Katrin Tiidenberg, Hot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms Matter, out with MIT Press in 2026. Together with Becky Holt, we have just wrapped up a monograph on Pornhub for Polity’s Digital Media and Society series. Together with Mari Pajala and Laura Saarenmaa, we are also finishing a book on the first out Finnish mainstream gay celebrity, Monsieur Mosse.
I’m an advisory/editorial board member of the journals Sexualities, New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, Porn Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Postmodern Culture, Dialogues on Digital Society, Capacious, MedieKultur, Monstrum, Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, POLI-Politiques des Cultural Studies, Cinémas, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema and Nordic Journal of Sexology. I can be reached at <suspaa(at)utu.fi>
