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Education

Ph.D. Estonian Literature. Tartu University, Estonia, 2002 Dissertation: Kuidas kirjutada aega [How to Tell Time] Areas of concentration: 20th Century Estonian Literature, literary theory
M.A. Estonian Literature. Tartu University, Estonia, 1993 Thesis: “Vaatepunkt Asta Willmanni romaanis Peotäis tuhka, teine mulda” [“Point of View in Asta Willmann’s Novel One Handful of Ash, Another of Soil”]
B.A. Estonian Literature. Tartu University, Estonia, 1993

Employment

2005- present, Senior researcher. The Cultural Theory Research Group, Estonian Literature Museum, Tartu, Estonia
1994-2004, Researcher. Under and Tuglas Literature Centre, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
1999-2001, Lecturer. Program in Literary Theory, Department of Literature and Folklore, Tartu University, Estonia
1998, Lecturer. Department of Finno-Ugrian Philology, Turku University, Finland
1998, Visiting scholar. Department of Comparative Literature, Helsinki University, Finland
1994-1998, Lecturer. Program in Estonian Literature, Department of Literature and Folklore, Tartu University, Estonia
1996-1997, Visiting scholar. Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

University teaching experience

Ohio State University, USA. Department of Philosophy, Department of Slavic and East European Studies, 2006 - present:

Introduction to the Philosophy of the Arts
Literature and the Self
Masterpieces of Russian Literature
20th Century Russian Literature

Tartu University, Estonia. Department of Literature and Folklore, 1994-2001:
Literary Theory: Russian Formalism to Post-structuralism
French Post-structuralism and the Question of Language: Barthes, Derrida, Foucault
Contemporary Estonian Literary Prose and Drama
Post-classical Narratology
Barthes and Structuralism
Proseminars (developing student research projects)
Film and Literature (video/internet conference course, co-taught with Tarja Pakarinen in Turku)

Turku University, Finland. Department of Finno-Ugrian Philology, 1998-1999:
Contemporary Estonian Literary Prose, Poetry, and Drama
Film and Literature (video/internet conference course, co-taught with Tarja Pakarinen in Turku)

Selected professional presentations

Conference Paper: “Care and Time: Reading Heidegger through Deleuze and Lacan.” Double Edges. 33th Annual Conference of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature. Brunel University, UK, June 2009
Conference Paper: “Nationalism, Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in the Periphery of the Soviet Empire: the Case of Estonia in the 1960s. Midwest Slavic Conference. Ohio State University, USA, April 2009
Conference Paper: “The Phenomenology of the Everyday.” Everyday Aesthetics. VIII International Summer School of the International Institute of Applied Aesthetics. Finland, June 2008
Conference Paper: “The Conditions of Soviet Colonialism.” Europe in Black and White. Lisbon Universisty, Portugal, May 2008
Conference Paper: “Soviet Colonialism as Colonialism in Reverse.” Midwest Slavic Conference. Ohio State University, USA, April 2008
Conference Paper: “Heidegger between Aristotle and Derrida: the Now and the Layers of Time.” Layering: Textual-Visual-Spatial-Temporal. 31th Annual Conference of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Cypros University, Cypros, June 2007
Conference Paper: “Heidegger and the Hole in the Highway: Moods, Dasein, and DeLillo’s Body Artist.” Between Three: Art – Media – Politics. 30th Annual Conference of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Freiburg, Strasbourg, Basel, June 2006
Conference Paper: “Care, togetherness and time: Heidegger and Michel Tournier’s Friday.“ Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton University, New Jersey, March 2006
Conference Paper: “Why Philosophy Needs Storytelling: Heidegger and van Gogh.” Folk Narrative Theories and Contemporary Practices: congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR). University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, July 2005
Conference Paper: “Degrees of Being: Encountering Being with Heidegger.” Writing Aesthetics: 29th Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, May 2005
Conference Paper: “The Aesthetics of Narrative Time: the Epiphanic Sublime.” Writing Aesthetics: 27th Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, May 2003
Conference Paper: “Narrative and Death: A Heideggerian Viewpoint.” Intermedialities: Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2002
Conference Paper: “Contamination and Survival: A Nation without Morals.” Krise, Konflikt und Strategie zur Lösung von Konflikten. Moderner Nationalismus und nationale Literaturen in Finnland, Estland, Lettland, Litauen und Polen. Institut für Baltische Studien – Historisches Institut, Universität Stockholm Stockholm, December 2001
Conference Paper: “Transformations of Rebellion: Kristian Jaak Peterson in the Service of National Identity”. Symposium "Der Sturm und Drang in Livland: Rebellionsmuster im Leben und in der Dichtung. J. M. R. Lenz 250. K. J. Peterson 200". Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, September 2001
Conference Paper: “Mythical and Modern in the Imagination of National Narrative.” Myths - Rites - Simulacra: 10th International Symposium of the Austrian Association for Semiotics, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, December 2000
Conference Paper: “Rahvus - unustamine või mäletamine?” Kultuur ja mälu. Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, October 2000
Symposium: “Multimorphous Theory.” Ninth Annual Finno-Ugric Congress. Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, August 2000
Conference Paper: “Temporality and the National Narrative.” Narrative 2000, Emory University, Atlanta, USA, April 2000
Conference Paper: “Postmodernism - a Condition of Late Socialism.” PostModern Perspectives: Culture, Literature, Society. Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany, November 1999
Conference Paper: “The Status of National Mythology in Our Times: Some Estonian Cases.” Culture and Nation at the Turn of the Millennium. Tartu, Estonia, October 1999
Conference Paper: “Literary canon and national identity.” Literary Canons. Budapest, Hungary, September 1998
Conference Paper: “Doubleness in Fictional Temporality.” Interfaces. Tallinn, Estonia, May 1998
Symposium: “Tutkimassa virolaisen romaanin narratiivisuutta.” Helsingi University, Finland, May 1998
Seminar: “Narrativity and the Estonian novel.” Helsinki University, Finland, May 1998
Seminar: “Recentring the Centre.” Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, March 1997

Grants and prizes

2005-2007: Grant: “20th Century Philosophy and Literature.” Estonian Cultural Capital
2005-2006: Grant: “Narrativising the National History.” Estonian Ministry of Culture, The Program on Classics
2004: Grant: “Narrativising the National History.” Estonian Cultural Capital
2001-2002: Grant: “Time, narrative, and the body.” Estonian Scientific Foundation
1999-2001: Grant: “Narrativising the national history.” Open Society Support Foundation
1999-2000: Grant: “Models of cultural discourse” (dir. Rein Veidemann). Estonian Scientific Foundation
1996-2004: Travel and conference grants, Estonian Cultural Capital
1997-1999: Grant: “Rhetorical and narratological analysis of texts (II).” Estonian Scientific Foundation
1998: Grant: “Narratological models of Estonian literature.” Foundation for Estonian National Culture
1995-1998: Grant: “Estonian literary history” (dir. Luule Epner). Estonian Scientific Foundation
1994-1996: Grant: “Rhetorical and narratological analysis of texts (I)” (dir. Jaan Undusk). Estonian Scientific Foundation. On completion, this grant was awarded a special prize by the Estonian Scientific Foundation

Selected professional activities

The School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University:

Masters Theses Directed, Tartu University:

Languages