Kadri Tüür

Visiting Lecturer of Estonian Language and Literature
Alumni Hall Room 428
kadri.tuur@utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Estonian

Areas of Interest

Representations of nature in literature and in film; environmentalism and its ironic manifestations; Estonian diaspora culture; poetics of place; ecofeminism.

Estonian language and literature, ecocriticism, environmental humanities, semiotics.

Recent Publications

Linda Kaljundi, Anu Mänd, Ulrike Plath, Kadri Tüür (eds.) Baltic Human-Animal Histories: Relations, Trading, and Representations. Peter Lang, 2024

Julia Kuznetski, Kadri Tüür. Estonian literature and ecofeminism. In: Douglas A. Vakoch (Ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature. (233−243). London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003195610-23.

Studia Vernacula, Estonian research journal for craft research - editor-in-chief, 2017-2024

Kadri Tüür. Semiotics of Nature Representations: on the Example of Nature Writing. University of Tartu, 2017.

Click here for CV in Estonian research information system.

 

Education

PhD, University of Tartu, Estonia, semiotics and culture theory, 2017
MA, University of Tartu, Estonia, semiotics and culturology, 2003
MA, University of Turku, Finland, comparative literature, 2002
BA, University of Tartu, Estonia, Estonian literature, 1999