Department of Classical Studies

Janika Päll
PhD (Classical Philology)
Head of Department, Professor of Classical Philology, 0.8 p
Lossi 3–408

Research and supervision topics:

  • ancient Greek and Latin language
  • ancient literature
  • the history of ancient rhetoric
  • the tradition of antiquity from renaissance humanists to neohumanism
  • neo-latin and humanist greek literature
  • translating ancient literature

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Maria-Kristiina Lotman
PhD (Classical Philology)
Associate Professor of Classical Philology, 0.75 p
+372 737 6252
Lossi 3–405

Research and supervision topics:

  • metrics
  • poetics
  • translation of polycoded texts

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Kadri Novikov
PhD (Classical Philology)
Lecturer in Classical Philology
Lossi 3–407

Research and supervision topics:

  • Ancient Greek novels
  • studying narrative and rhetoric, rhetorical figures in ancient novels
  • form of ancient names in earlier Estonian translations

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Neeme Näripä
PhD (Classical Philology)
Lecturer in Latin and Ancient Greek
Lossi 3–407

Research and supervision topics:

  • rhetorical theory (Hermogenes, stasis theory)
  • Greek tragedy (Aeschylus' trilogy "Oresteia", mythic world, gender)
  • Lucian ("True Stories", dialogues, sophistic speeches, mythic world, identity, dialect)

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Kaidi Hõbejõgi
PhD (Classical Philology)
Lecturer in Latin Language, Programme Director for Classical Studies
Lossi 3–407

Research and supervision topics:

  • Medieval Latin
  • Neo Latin literature
  • history of universities (esp. the early modern University of Tartu) and academic language use
  • historical sociolinguistics and multilingual practices (incl. code-switching)

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Ivo Volt
PhD (Classical Philology)
Lecturer in Classical Studies, 0.5 p
+372 737 6252
+372 527 1764
Lossi 3–405
Kristin Klaus
PhD (religiooniuuringud)
Teacher of Latin, 0.5 p

Research and supervision topics:

  • bible translation
  • Septuagint (LXX) Greek

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Beatrice Veidenberg
MA (Classical Philology)
Junior Research Fellow in Classical Philology, 0.8 p

Research and supervision topics:

  • ancient drama
  • Aeschylus' tragedies
  • poetic repetitions
  • performance and ritual
  • cognitive impact of theatre

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Anni Polding
MA (Classical Philology)
Junior Research Fellow in Classical Philology, 0.5 p

Research and supervision topics:

  • the pedagogical-philological seminar
  • neo-humanism
  • digitising old documents
  • digital Latin

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Jaana Jurtšenkova-Varthalitou
MA (Classical Philology)
Junior Research Fellow in Classical Philology, 0.8 p
Elica Mateo Krikk
Academic Affairs Specialist
+372 737 5319
Lossi 3–422