Instructors of the course

Your instructors of the course this semester

Susanna Soosaar

I obtained my doctoral degree at the Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures at the University. My research focused on studying narrative time through the point of view of the reader. Therefore, I am very much interested in time, fictional worlds, and the position of the reader during the act of reading.

Katarina Damčević

Katarina’s research centers on the semiotics of hate speech and controversial symbols in (post)conflict societies with a regional focus on Southeast Europe. The title of her doctoral dissertation is “Semiotics of Hate Speech and Contested Symbols: The ‘Za dom spremni’ Ustaša Salute in Contemporary Croatia”, which she defended in 2023 at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Katarina was awarded multiple fellowships and grants for her research, including research fellowships in the US based Dangerous Speech Project, the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade, Serbia, and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg, Germany. She has participated in multiple regional and international conferences, workshops, trainings, and summer schools. Katarina teaches at the University of Tartu's Center for Academic Writing and Communication and works as a book review assistant in the Journal Southeastern Europe.