Team

Anna Derksen

Assistant lecturer

Nordic & disability history, cultural studies, eugenics

Artis Ostups

PhD researcher

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

Assoc-Prof. Dr Jan Süselbeck

Supervisory Board member

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

Assoc-Prof. Dr Silje Haugen Warberg

Supervisory Board member

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

Assoc-Prof. Dr Terje Loogus

Supervisory Board member

Translation theory, translation and culture

Benjamin Schweitzer

PhD researcher

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

Digne Ūdre

PhD researcher

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

Douglas Ong

PhD researcher

Commemoration of traumatic experiences in Central-Eastern Europe

Dr Alexander Waszynski

Academic Coordinator

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

Gonzalo Landau Brenes

Research Student

Late antiquity in Hispania, Visigoth and Spanish history

Hannah Willcox

Research student

Postmigrant literature, narratives of flight, concepts of time in contemporary literature

Hella Liira

PhD researcher

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

Ingeborg Rebecca Mjelde Helleberg

PhD Researcher

Krista Anna Belševica

PhD researcher

Linguistic and literary anthropology, reading research, narratology

Laura Tack

PhD researcher

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

Martin Nõmm

PhD researcher

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

Martina Zagni

PhD researcher

Soviet postwar literature and culture

Natalia Iost

PhD researcher

International Relations, conflict studies

Nina Pilz

PhD researcher

Narratology, discourse analysis

Paul Kirschstein

PhD researcher

Histories and literatures of the Nordic countries, environmental history

Prof. Dr Andreas Ohme

Supervisory Board member

Russian, Czech and Polish literatures, narratology, genology, methodology, intermediality

Prof. Dr Anne Gjelsvik

Supervisory Board member

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

Prof. Dr Anti Selart

IRTG Speaker, Supervisory Board member

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

Prof. Dr Cordelia Heß

IRTG Vice Speaker, Supervisory Board member

Nordic history, antisemitism, saints cults in the Baltic Sea Region, minorities

Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Michael North

Supervisory Board Member

Monetary and financial history, history of commerce and culture, Baltic Sea Region

Prof. Dr Eckhard Schumacher

IRTG speaker, Supervisory Board member

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

Prof. Dr Ene Kõresaar

Supervisory Board member

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

Prof. Dr Helge Jordheim

Supervisory Board member

Prof. Dr Hubertus Buchstein

Supervisory Board member

Democratic theory, history of political ideas, politics of history, right-wing extremism

Prof. Dr Ingvild Folkvord

IRTG Speaker, Supervisory Board member

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

Prof. Dr Margit Bussmann

Supervisory Board member

Peace and conflict research, foreign policy analysis, security in the Baltic Sea region

Prof. Dr Marina Grishakova

Supervisory Board member

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

Prof. Dr Marko Pantermöller

Supervisory Board member

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

Prof. Dr Mathias Niendorf

Supervisory Board member

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

Prof. Dr Micha Werner

Supervisory Board member

Normative ethics, theories of responsibility, methods of applied ethics

Prof. Dr Riho Altnurme

Supervisory Board member

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

Prof. Dr Stephan Kessler

Supervisory Board member

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

Prof. Kristoffer Neville, Ph.D.

Mercator Fellow

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

Rauno Alliksaar

PhD researcher

Medieval church history, monasticism, history of communication, non-verbal communication

Rezeda Lyykorpi

PhD researcher

Collective and cultural memory, politics of memory, ethnic identity

Sophie Schulze

Research student

German literature and epistemology, 20th century literature

Victoria Oertel

PhD researcher

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