Tiina Kirss

Tiina Kirss is professor of Estonian literature at the University of Tartu. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan (1994). Her primary research interests are 20th century comparative European literary history, autobiography and life histories, oral history, Siberian deportations in the Baltics, trauma theory, feminist theory etc. She is co-editor (with Ene Kõresaar and Marju Lauristin) of the collection of articles She who remembers survives: Interpreting Estonian women’s post-Soviet life stories (Tartu, 2004).