Hanna Meritoja (Coordinator)
Hanna Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory, and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Turku (Finland). Her research is mainly in the fields of narrative theory, narrative hermeneutics, narrative ethics, and cultural memory studies. Her publications include The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory (2014, Palgrave Macmillan), “Narrative and Human Existence: Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics” (New Literary History, 1/2014), Values of Literature (co-edited, 2015, Brill Rodopi), and The Ethics of Storytelling: Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and the Possible (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).
Eneken Laanes (Coordinator)
Eneken Laanes is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Head of Cultural Theory at Tallinn University and Senior Researcher at the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Estonia. Her fields of research are cultural memory studies, trauma studies, post-Soviet Easter European cultures of remembrance and theories of autobiography and self. Her publication include Unresolved Dialogues: Subjectivity and Memory in post-Soviet Estonian Novel (in Estonian, 2009, UTKK), Novels, Histories, Novel Nations: Historical Fiction and Cultural Memory in Finland and Estonia (co-edited, 2015, Suomen Kirjalisuuden Seura).
Members
Charles Armstrong, University of Agder, Kristiansand
Molly Andrews, University of East London
Jens Brockmeier, The American University of Paris
Marta Cenedese, University of Turku
Colin Davis, Royal Holloway, University of London
Victoria Fareld, University of Stockholm
Mark Freeman, Holy Cross College (USA)
Mattias Frihammar, University of Stockholm
Paul Gready, University of York
Olivia Guaraldo, University of Verona
Kimberly Hall, Wofford College
Markus Huss, Södertörn University
Matti Hyvärinen, University of Tampere
Kaisa Kaakinen, University of Turku
Siobhan Kattago, Tartu University
Unni Langås, University of Agder, Kristiansand
Maarit Leskelä-Kärki, University of Turku
Jakob Lothe, University of Oslo
Maria Mäkelä, University of Tampere
Kristina Norman, Estonian Academy of Art
Anna Reading, King’s College London
Jafrin Rezwana, University of Helsinki
Andreea Ritivoi, Carnegie Mellon University
Rebecca Rosenberg, King’s College London
Kim Rostan, Wofford College
Hans Ruin, Södertörn University
Corinne Squire, University of East London
Stephanie Suárez, Complutense University of Madrid
Maria Tamboukou, University of East London
Annika Toots, Estonian Academy of Art
Tamara West, Marchester University