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Jaak Tomberg
Jaak Tomberg is a post-doctoral research fellow in Estonian Literary
Museum. His current fields of research are literary utopias, philosophy
of literature, theory of criticism and the contemporary relations between
realism and science fiction. His monograph, “Kirjanduse lepitav otstarve”
(“The Reconciliatory Purpose of Fiction”, 2011) talks about the function of
fiction in the field of tension between possibility and necessity. Besides
theoretical work, he has translated fiction and literary theory, edited the
Estonian Avant-garde magazine Vihik and has written plays.
Tiina Kirss
Tiina Ann Kirss is a professor of Cultural Theory at Tallinn University. She
received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan
(1994). Her primary research interests are 20th century comparative
European literary history, autobiography and life histories, oral history,
Siberian deportations in the Baltics, trauma theory and feminist theory.
She is a co-editor of collections of articles She who remembers survives:
interpreting Estonian women‘s post-Soviet life stories (Tartu 2004) and
Estonian Life Stories (2009, Central European University Press).
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