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
Maria-Kristiina Lotman
PhD (Classical Philology)
Associate Professor of Classical Philology 0.75 p
Research and supervision topics:
- metrics
- poetics
- translation of polycoded texts
Kadri Novikov
PhD (Classical Philology)
Lecturer in Classical Philology, Programme Director for Classical Studies
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
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)
Ivo Volt
PhD (Classical Philology)
Lecturer in Classical Studies 0.5 p
Jaana Jurtšenkova
MA (Classical Philology)
Teacher of Latin 0.5 p
Kristin Klaus
MA (Classical Philology)
Teacher of Latin 0.5 p
Research and supervision topics:
- bible translation
- Septuagint (LXX) Greek
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
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
Elica Mateo Krikk
Academic Affairs Specialist
Kaidi Hõbejõgi
PhD (Classical Philology)
Lecturer in Latin Language (employment contract suspended)
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)
