
Prof. Dr Anti Selart
IRTG Speaker, Supervisory Board member
Medieval and early modern history of Baltic area, Baltic crusades, interconfessional relations, medieval Livonia

Medieval and early modern history of Baltic area, Baltic crusades, interconfessional relations, medieval Livonia

Literature, terrorism and law, Ernst Cassirer’s theory of culture, translation studies, voice phenomena

Cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, history of the body, medicine and punishment, history of knowledge, theory of history

Literary and media studies, contemporary literature, digitization, pop culture

Political sociology, identity narratives, Russian minority, political attitudes

History of theology in Estonia, methodology and historiography of church history, interconfessional relations, secularisation

Mobility and migration, borders, translocal familyhood, life course, inequality, Eastern and Northern Europe, ethnographical methodology, research ethics

Literary geography, Norwegian literary history and historiography, nationalism and senses of the nation, maritime/oceanic literary studies, Digital Humanities

Norwegian-Jewish history, post-Holocaust restitution, digital humanities, quantitative and qualitative methods

Nynorsk literature, Literary History, Critical Theory, Romanticism, Modern Scandinavian Literature

Schema theory, narratology, health humanities

Norwegian literature, literary geographies

History and culture of Ukraine, psychoanalysis, trauma, Holocaust, film studies, pop culture

Public History, history of the 20th century, GDR history, memory studies, conflicting memory

Comparative politics, European Union

Memory studies, museum studies, postcolonial studies, cultural identity, cultural heritage

Intermediality and adaptation, terror and violence in film, gender representation in film

World War II, Northern Scandinavia, Sámi, Wehrmacht, ideology

Comparative literature, literature and philosophy, narratology, cognitive humanities, intermedial studies

Graphic novels, memory studies, the Holocaust and its aftermath, representation of war in literature


Medieval Nordic history, gender and sexuality history, church history, Canon Law and clerical life

Slavic literature studies, Digital Humanities, Auto/biography online, Digital dictatorship(s)

International Relations, conflict studies

Early modern history

Early modern and contemporary art, Eastern and Northern Europe, garden and landscape architecture, art and nature in the discourse of the Anthropocene, memory culture, art historiography

19th and 20th century Latvian & Lithuanian literature, the idyll in Poland and Lithuania around 1800, narratology, theory of metaphor

Histories and literatures of the Nordic countries, environmental history

Literary representations, memory studies, museum studies

Cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, British politics, cultural studies and intercultural aspects in foreign language teaching

(Auto)biographical research, memory studies, museum studies, post/Socialism studies

Comparative politics, democratic governance

Space, transitory spaces, non-lieux, heterotopias, intertextuality, gender in correlation with identity, sexuality, power and movement

Literary geography, cultural memory studies, digital humanities

Translation theory, translation and culture

Collective and cultural memory, politics of memory, ethnic identity

Scandinavian culture and literature, cultural identity, heritage studies, pop culture

Legislatures, political parties, political attitudes and behavior

Early modern culture in Northern Europe, architecture and arts history, topography and historiography, royal courts and court culture

History of Lithuania, Polish-German relations, nations and nationalisms

Baltic exile literature, trauma studies, diaspora studies, comparative literature

Philosophy of medicine, history of medical theory, narratological concepts of health & disease

Commemoration of traumatic experiences in Central-Eastern Europe

Trauma studies, philosophy of history, narrative theory, Eastern European literature

Old Literary Finnish, morphosyntax, language and research history, multilingualism, language attitudes and contact, translation studies

Narratology, discourse analysis, medical humanities, narratives of crisis, literature and space

Scandinavian theatre and literature, Jewish-Scandinavian relations, contemporary Scandinavian opera architecture, queer voices in literature, health/disease

Protest, photography, visual history

Linguistics, Finnic philology, special languages/terminology, linguistic culture analysis

Narratology, narration and construction of time, post-GDR-literature, contemporary German literature

Post-modernistic concepts in literature, Latvian regional languages

Discourse analysis, immigration politics, right-wing politics, dog-whistles, anti-muslim racism

The European Union, crisis management, policy learning, European integration

Affect theory, literary antisemitism (18th -21st century), transmission of literature in the media, cultural memory studies, generational theory, the Holocaust and its aftermath, representations of war in literature and film, contemporary literature, German-language Jewish literature

Environmental history, history of the Baltic Sea Region, historical catastrophe research, collective memory studies

Folkloristics, intangible cultural heritage, folk ornament and symbols, vernacular narratives, visual culture

Baroque architecture of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, heritage studies, museology

Literature and law, literature and medicine, graphic novels, fictionality

Literary & media theory, literary & intellectual history, history of science

History of Medieval Art and its reception in later times, cultural identity, heritage studies, museum studies

Normative ethics, theories of responsibility, methods of applied ethics

Contemporary Scandinavian Literature, Speculative Fiction, Queer Perspectives in Literature, Art and Music

contemporary German literature, postmigration, temporality

Medieval Nordic history, premodern ethnicity, historical semantics

Soviet postwar literature and culture