Staff of the Department of Semiotics
On this page you may find the contacts of the staff of the Department of Semiotics.
Timo Maran
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Professor of Ecosemiotics and Environmental Humanities
ecosemiotics, ecocriticism, mimicry, Estonian nature writing
Ulvi Urm
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Executive Secretary
Peeter Torop
PhD (Philology)
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Professors emeriti, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Professor emeritus
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Professor Emeritus of Semiotics, 0.3 p
Jakobi 2–308
+372 737 6155
Semiotics of culture, semiotics of translation, semiotics of literature, cultural theories
Kalevi Kull
cand (Biology)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Professor of Biosemiotics
Biosemiotics, general semiotics, theoretical biology
Elin Sütiste
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Associate Professor of Semiotics, Programme Director for Semiotics (MA)
Ülle Pärli
cand (Philology)
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Associate Professors emeriti, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Associate Professor emeritus
Silvi Salupere
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Lecturer in Semiotics
History of semiotics, semiotics metalanguage, Juri Lotman's cultural semiotics
Ene-Reet Soovik
MA (English Language and Literature)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Editor
Jakobi 2–303
Anti Randviir
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Lecturer in Semiotics, Programme Director for Semiotics and Culture Studies
Sociosemiotics, semiotics of space, subculture studies, semiotic language of description
Mihhail Lotman
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Visiting Professor of Semiotics, 0.5 p
General and cultural semiotics, semiotics of verse, rhetorics and poetics, analysis of film, text theory, Russian literature
Andreas Ventsel
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Professor of Political and Sociosemiotics
Political semiotics, semiotic analysis of online communication, semiotics of culture, poststructuralist discourse theory
Tiit Remm
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Head of Department, Research Fellow in Semiotics
Jakobi 2–311
Semiotics of space, semiotics of the city, sociosemiotics
Riin Magnus
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Research Fellow in Semiotics
Jakobi 2–302
Urban ecosemiotics, Jakob von Uexküll’s biosemiotics, human-non-human animal communication, semiotics of alien species
Katre Pärn
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Junior Lecturer in Semiotics, Programme Director for Semiotics and Culture Studies (BA)
Jakobi 2–302
Cultural semiotics and analysis of culture, semiotics of film and media semiotics
Silver Rattasepp
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Research Fellow in Semiotics, 0.5 p, Programme Director for Semiotics
Jakobi 2–304
Posthumanism, animal studies, zoosemiotics, philosophy of science
Maarja Ojamaa
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Professor of Semiotics of Culture, Teaching Excellence Ambassador
Jakobi 2–308
Semiotics of digital culture, semiotics of cultural education, cultural autocommunication, transmediality
Ott Puumeister
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Research Fellow in Semiotics
Jakobi 2–313
Political semiotics, semiotics of power, biopolitics
Nelly Mäekivi
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Research Fellow in Semiotics, Programme Director for Semiotics and Culture Studies (MA)
Jakobi 2–302
Ecosemiotics, semiotic analysis of hybrid environments, zoobiology
Alexandra Milyakina
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Research Fellow in Semiotics
Jakobi 2
Cultural semiotics, transmedia, education of literature, digital education
Tuuli Pern
PhD (Semiotics and Cultural Theory)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Research Fellow in Semiotics, 0.5 p
Siiri Tarrikas
MA (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics and Culture Studies, 0.75 p
Jakobi 2–304
Hongjin Song
MA (Semiotics)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics and Culture Studies
Jakobi 2–309
James Augustus Bacigalupi IV
Architecture
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics and Culture Studies
Jakobi 2–304
Ulla Juske
MA (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics, 0.8 p
Jakobi 2–308
Lona Päll
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
Department of Semiotics
Research Fellow in Semiotics, 0.5 p
Jakobi 2–302
