Department of Romance Studies
Tanel Lepsoo
PhD (French Language and Literature)
Head of Department, Associate Professor of French Literature
Research and supervision topics:
- French theatre
- French literature at the beginning of the 20th century
- cultural transfers
- issues of figuration and representation
Klaarika Kaldjärv
PhD (Spanish Language and Literature)
Lecturer in Spanish Literature and Translation Studies
Research and supervision topics:
- translation studies
- literary translation
- translations from Spanish into Estonian
- literature in Spanish
Marri Amon
PhD (General Linguistics)
Lecturer in French Language and Translation Studies 0.5 p
Lossi 3-403
Research and supervision topics:
- comparative studies of Estonian and French
- relations between written and oral language
- grammaticalization
Anu Treikelder
PhD (French Language and Literature)
Lecturer in French Language and Linguistics, Programme Director for Romance Studies, Programme Director for Teacher of Foreign Languages
Lossi 3-404
Research and supervision topics:
- comparative studies of French and Estonian
- semantics and pragmatics
- acquisition and didactics of French as a foreign language
Mari Kruse
PhD (Spanish Language and Literature)
Lecturer in Spanish Language and Linguistics, Programme Director for European Languages and Cultures
Research and supervision topics:
- acquiring additional foreign languages, especially that of Spanish by Estonians
- crosslinguistic transfer
- variation of Spanish, lexicology
- final papers in teacher training
Vincent Dautancourt
PhD
Lecturer in French Language and Culture
Lossi 3-403
Research and supervision topics:
- French and Estonian society
- French journalism
- relations between France and Estonia
- teaching of French as a foreign language
Annika Mikkel
PhD (Classical Philology)
Lecturer in Italian and Latin Language
Lossi 3-407
Research and supervision topics:
- prosody of Italian language
- prose rhythm
- Italian language and literature
Marge Käsper
PhD (French Language and Literature)
Lecturer in French Language and Linguistics 0.8 p
Lossi 3-403
Research and supervision topics:
- discourse analysis
- phonetics
- lexicology
- corpus linguistics
- metaphors
Inés Daniela Navarro Di Meo
mag (Spanish Language and Literature)
Visiting Lecturer in Spanish Language and Literature
Virginia Rapún Mombiela
PhD (Spanish Language and Literature)
Lecturer in Spanish Language and Linguistics
Lossi 3-420
Kairi Güsson
MA (Culture management)
Teacher of Spanish
Reet Alas
PhD (French Language and Literature)
Teacher of French Language
Lossi 3-419
Tiina Zobel
Teacher of French
Lossi 3-404
Ehte Puhang
MA (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Junior Research Fellow in Spanish Language and Literature 0.5 p
Research and supervision topics:
- translation history and translation studies
- translating from Spanish to Estonian
- literature in Spanish
- sociology of literature
Anette Tammiste
MA (French teacher)
Junior Research Fellow in French Language and Literature
Lossi 3
Research and supervision topics:
- plurilingualism
- plurilingual and pluricultural competence
- foreign language acquisition and didactics
- mediation
- French language and literature
Elica Mateo Krikk
Academic Affairs Specialist 0.5 p
Marju Adams
Academic Affairs Specialist
