Eneken Laanes is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Tallinn University, Estonia and Leader of the European Research Council Project Translating Memories: The Eastern European Past in the Global Arena. She has published on transnational memory of Soviet repressions and on historical comparisons in literature, film and art. She is also a cultural critic and has edited a volume of letters from the Gulag by Estonian writer Raimond Kaugver (2020).
Having dealt with memories of historical violence for the past fifteen years in my academic work as a literary scholar, the question of historical comparison is... Read more.
