[2] She is docent at the University of Helsinki,[3] and specialises in Old East Slavic literature, including the mental imagery, eschatological narratives and textual criticism of the Primary Chronicle (PVL).
[2] Simon Franklin praised it, writing that 'scholars will be grateful to Isoaho for perusing such a range of sources, and for producing a coherent overview of the cultural representations of Aleksandr.
'[4] F. B. Schenk remarked the monograph would have benefited from including other recent studies, but lauded Isoaho's profound knowledge on the subject matter and her important research contribution in the field.
[5] In January 2013, Isoaho hosted the international symposium "Past and Present in Medieval Chronicles", a series of lectures by many scholars, in 2015 bundled as conference proceedings under the same title.
Amongst other things, it sought to demonstrate that subjectivity and the historical context in which each chronicler is immersed during the composition of his or her work were of fundamental importance to understanding the genre.