Education

• 2006 University of Tartu, department of literature and folklore, doctoral studies; PhD in Estonian literature
• 2000 University of Tartu, MA cum laude in Estonian literature
• 1992–1992 scholarship at the Bergen University, Norway, department of linguistics and literary studies
• 1981–1987 University of Tartu, Estonian philology, teacher of Estonian language and literature
• 1970–1981 Tallinn 44. Secondary School
  
  

Career

• 01.09.2015 – ... Tallinn University, School of Humanities, Professor (1,00)
• 2015–2015 Ohio State University, USA, Visiting Researcher (0,50)
• 2008–2013 Estonian Literary Museum, Senior Researcher (0,50)
• 2008–2015 Tallinn University, Institute of Estonian Language and Culture, Professor (1,00)
• 2007–2008 Estonian Literary Museum, Extraordinary Senior Researcher (0,50)
• 2007–2008 Tallinn University, Institute of Estonian Language and Culture, Associate Professor (0,50)
• 01.01.2007 – 31.12.2007 visiting lecturer at the University of Turku
• 01.09.2005 – 31.12.2006 University of Tartu, Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Culture Studies and Arts, Extraordinary Researcher (0,50)
• 01.01.2002 – 31.12.2005 University of Tartu, part-time researcher (0,5), department of literature and folklore
• 01.01.2001 – 31.12.2003 CULTOS (Cultural Units of Learning – Tools and Services, IST – 2000 – 28134), funded by the European Commission under the 5th Framework IST Programme (Information Society Technologies), reseacher, member of the working group.
• 01.01.1997 – 31.12.2007 Estonian Writers’ Union, part-time assistant/counsellor
• 01.01.1995 – 31.12.2007 academic journal Keel ja Kirjandus (Language and Literature), part-time editor
• 01.01.1993 – 31.12.1997 Estonian Academy of Sciences, Under and Tuglas Literature Centre, scientific secretary
• 01.01.1987 – 31.12.1993 Estonian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Language and Literature, senior assistant, researcher
  
  

Grants and projects

• 2009 - ... Coordinator of series of monographs "Heuremata", project leader of a national program "Estonian Language and Cultural Memory".
• 2008 - 2013 Targeted funding project no SF0030054s08 "Rhetorical Patterns of Mimesis and Estonian Textual Culture" (principal investigator Virve Sarapik) - senior researcher.
• 2008 - 2011 ESF grant no 7679 „Particiapatory Culture in Cyberspace: Literature and its Borders“ – grant holder.
• 2005 – 2008 Coordinator (principal investigator) of series of monographs "Heuremata", project leader of a national program "Estonian Language and National Memory".
• 2003 – 2007 Targeted funding project no SF0032471s03 "The topology and texture of Estonian literature. [Intersemiotic analysis]" (principal investigator Virve Sarapik) - senior researcher.
• 2002 – 2006 Targeted funding project no SF0182140s02 "Estonian literature and world literature in the paradigm of intertextuality" (principal investigator Jüri Talvet) - senior researcher.
• 2004 - 2006 ESF grant no ETF5965 "The problem of media-determinism and temporal-spatial realtions of the work of art” (principal investigator Virve Sarapik) - senior researcher.
• 2001 - 2003 CULTOS (Cultural Units of Learning – Tools and Services, IST – 2000 – 28134), funded by the European Commission under the 5th Framework IST Programme (Information Society Technologies) - member of the working group.
• 1997 – 1998, 1999 – 2000 Tiger Leap Foundation, "Estonian Literary History in Texts 1924–1925. ERNI" (electronical literary historical archive and tution material) – member of the working group.
• 1997 – 1998 ESF grant no 2791 “History of Estonian Literary Critical Thought II. The Problems of Text and Context” – grant holder.
• 1994 – 1996 ESF grant nr. 765 “History of Estonian Literary Critical Thought” – grant holder.
  
  

R&D related managerial and administrative work

• 2017 - ... ARLE 2017. The 11th conference of the International Association for Research in L1 Education. June 15-17, 2017, Tallinn University (Estonia). Member of the Scientific board.
• 2016 - ... Member of the board of Estonian Writers' Union
• 2016 - ... Memebr of the Development and Economic Affairs Committee, Tallinn University
• 2016 - ... Chairperson of the expert council on humanities, national program "Estonian university textbooks"
• 2015 - ... Head of the Study Area of Estonian Language and Culture, School of Humanities, Tallinn University
• 2015 - ... Member of the council of the School of Humanities, Tallinn University
• 2015 - ... Member of the Academic Affairs Committee, School of Humanities, Tallinn University
• 2014 - ... Member of the editorial board of the academic journal "EKLA töid kirjandusest ja kultuuriloost"
• 2012 - ... Member of the Senate, Tallinn University
• 2012 - ... International Association of Philosophy and Literature, member
• 2010 - ... Member of the Research Committee on Comparative Literature in the Digital Age, International Comparative Literature Association
• 2009 - ... coordinator of series of monographs "Heuremata", project leader of a national program "Estonian Language and Cultural Memory"
• 2009 - ... Member of the editorial board of the journal "Methis. Studia humaniora estonica"
• 2007 - ... Vice chairperson of Estonian Writers' Union
• 2006 - ... Member of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
• 2003 - ... Member of Estonian Association of Comparative Literature and International Comparative Literature Association
• 2001 - ... Member of the board of Estonian Litarary Information Centre
• 1995 - ... Member of Estonian Writers' Union
• 1995 - ... Member of the editorial board of the journal "Estonian Literary Magazine"
• 1993 - ... Member of Estonian Literature Society
• 1989 - ... Member of Estonian Kostabi Society
• 2016 - 2016 The main organizer of the conference "Utterances and Pauses. Rein Veidemann 70." Tallinn University
• 2015 - 2015 Member of the leading group of the Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University
• 2014 - 2014 Organiser of the conference "(:) Beautiful War. (:) kivisildnik 50". 19 September 2014. Organisers: Tallinn University, Reseach Centre for Estonian Literature and Culture, Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian Writers' Union.
• 2013 - 2013 Referee for the international peer-review academic journal Journal of Baltic Studies
• 2013 - 2013 Latvian Science Council, expert
• 2012 - 2013 10th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe "Cultures, Crises, Consolidations in the Baltic World“. 16-19 June 2013 Tallinn University, organiser of the panels of literary studies
• 2012 - 2012 Organiser of a panel "Modernism, postmodernism and after: current field lines in Estonian literary culture" on the 23rd Conference of th Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS). 26–28 April 2012. Chicago, Illinois, USA
• 2012 - 2012 One of the main organisers of the 36th annual conference of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature "Archeologies of the Future: Tracing Memories, Imagining Spaces".28 May -3 June 2012. Organisers: ELM, Tallinn University
• 2012 - 2015 Director of the Institute of Estonian Language and Culture, Talllinn University
• 2011 - 2011 Referee for the international peer-review academic journal Literary and Linguistic Computing
• 2011 - 2011 Organiser of the conference "In Magic and Spirit. In Light and Shadow. Conference on Mari Saat". 16 September 2011. Organisers: Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian Writers' Union.
• 2011 - 2011 Organiser of an international panel „Narratives in Transition: Digital Life Writing, Digital" on the conference "Media in Transition 7" 13-15 May 2011, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA
• 2010 - 2010 Organiser of the conference "Zeroes in Estonian Contemporary Literature". 9-10 December 2010. Organisers: Department of Literary Studies, Institute of Estonian Language and Culture, Tallinn University; Estonian Writers' Union
• 2010 - 2010 Organiser of the international conference "Transforming Culture in the Digital Age", 14-17 April 2010 Tartu
• 2009 - 2009 Organiser of the conference "The Day of Opening the Doors. Conference on Mehis Heinsaar". 29 May 2009. Organisers: Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian Writers' Union.
• 2009 - 2009 Organiser of an international panel "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Multiplicity" on the conference "Media in Transition 6" 24-26 April 2009, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA
• 2009 - 2015 Chair of the Department of Literary Studies, Institute of Estonian Language and Culture, Tallinn University
• 2009 - 2009 Co-organiser of the conference "1940s in Estonian Literature and Culture". 3 December 2009. Organiser: Department of Literary Studies, Institute of Estonian Language and Culture, Tallinn University.
• 2008 - 2008 Co-organiser of the conference "Estonian literature in the 1930s: realism and its developments". 17.03.2008. (Tallinn University)
• 2008 - 2008 Organiser of the conference "Autumn Ball". 9 June 2008. Organisers: Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian Writers' Union.
• 2008 - 2015 Member of the council of the Institute of Estonian Language and Culture, Tallinn University
• 2007 - 2007 Main organiser of the conference about the prose by Jüri Ehlvest (Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian Writers' Union) 11.05.2007
• 2006 - 2006 Co-organiser of the conference "Mats Traat 70" (Estonian Writers' Union, Tallinn University) 22.11. 2006
• 2006 - 2007 Project leader of EU programme "Culture 2000" project "Literature and it's Borders. Baltic Ring3"
• 2005 - 2008 coordinator of series of monographs "Heuremata", project leader of a national program "Estonian Language and National Memory"
• 2004 - 2004 Adapting Texts II. Estonian Literary Museum/ University of Tartu, 23.-24.04.2004.
• 2003 - 2003 Adapting Texts I. Estonian Literary Museum/ University of Tartu, 16.-17.05.2003.
• 2000 - 2007 Member of "Traducta" commission, Estonian Cultural Endowment
• 2000 - 2000 On the Possibility of Re-printing Classical Texts in Estonia. Estonian Writers’ Union/ Under and Tuglas Literature Centre. 27.11.2000.
• 1998 - 2016 Member of the board of Estonian Writers’ Union
• 1998 - 2001 Vice chairman of Estonian Writers' Union,
• 1998 - 1998 National Literatures in the World of International Methods of Literary Studies. Estonian Writers’ Union/Estonian Literay Museum/Finnish Institute/University of Helsinki, 30.-31.10.1998.
• 1997 - 1997 Reception and Translation. The Problems of Context. Under and Tuglas Literature Centre, 5. 12.1997;
• 1996 - 1996 Austrian-Estonian symposion on Austrian literature and history. Under and Tuglas Literature Centre, University of Vienna, 31.03.1996;
• 1996 - 1996 Tradition and Pluralism. Under and Tuglas Literature Centre, 31.05.1996;
• 1994 - 1997 the scientific secretary of Under and Tuglas Literature Centre (areas of engagement: finances, publishing; organising scientific conferences, managing; the secretary of scientific council)
• 1990 - 1990 Conference National Cosmopolitism(co-organiser). Institute of Language and Literature 30.-31.10.1990
  
  

Lectures

Lectures on Estonian literature at the University of Tartu, Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn Pedagogical University, University of Turku