Novels, Histories, Novel Nations: Historical Fiction and Cultural Memory in Finland and Estonia

Linda Kaljundi is a project researcher at the Finnis Literature Society, and a researcher at the Institute of History, Tallinn University. Her studies centre on medieval and early modern historiography, and also on cultural memory studies, with a particular focus on intermediality.

Eneken Laanes is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and the Director of the Graduate Programme in Comparative Literature and Cultural Semiotics at Tallinn University and Senior Research Fellow at the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. She has been a Juris Padegs Fellow at MacMillan Center, Yale University. She is the author of Unresolved Dialogues: Memory and Subjectivity in the Post-Soviet Estonian Novel (in Estonian, 2009) and has published widely on cultural memory, trauma and post-socialist memory cultures.

Ilona Pikkanen is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tampere (Finnish Centre of Excellence in Historical Research). Her current research focuses on the dynamics between scholarly history writing and historical fiction in the long nineteenth century, with a special emphasis on the cultural memory of pre-modern peasant uprisings.