Ülo Valk
Professor of Estonian and Comparative Folklore
Ülo Valk is professor of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, Estonia. During 2003-2004 he is a Fulbright scholar at the Center for Folklore and Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include genre theory, demonology and belief.
Degree information
Ülo Valk, Doctor's Degree, 1994, (sup) -, Eesti rahvausu kuradi-kujutelm (Image of the Devil in Estonian Folk Religion), University of Tartu
Honours & Awards
2006, Ülo Valk; Prize for Popularizing Estonian Science. II prize.
2006, Ülo Valk; Annual prize of the journal "Keel ja Kirjandus" in folkloristics
2003, Ülo Valk; The best Estonian Science Foundation grant project in the humanities ('Legend as a folklore genre')
2003, Ülo Valk; Flubright scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
2002, Ülo Valk; Visiting Professor at the University of Kiel (Prof. Dr. Werner Petersen-Gastprofessur).
2000, Ülo Valk; Visiting professor in folkloristics at the University of California, Berkeley
1996, Ülo Valk; Prize of Academia Europaea for young scholars.
Field of research
2. Culture and Society, 2.6. Philology and Linguistics(vernacular religion and genre theory)
Current grants & projects
Folklore and Society: Tradition Memory, Creativity, Applications
Alternative Discourses of Belief: Folkloristic Perspectives
Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory
Authority and Utopias in Estonian and Finnish Belief Narratives
Some recent publications:
'On the Connections between Estonian Folk Religion and Christian Demonology', Mitteilungen für Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte, Band 8. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1994
(pp. 191-209).
'The Black Gentleman: Manifestations of the Devil in Estonian Folk Religion', Folklore Fellows' Communications No. 276, Helsinki, 2001.
'Authorship and Textuality. Kalevipoeg as Epic Landscape', Kalevala and the Worlds Traditional Epics, ed. Lauri Honko. Studia Fennica Folkloristica 12. Finnish Literature Society: Helsinki, 2002 (pp. 405-417).
Career
Fall 2001: professor of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu;
2002 - 2003: chair of the Department of Literature and Folklore, University of Tartu;
2003 - 2004: visiting scholar at the Center for Folklore and Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania
2004: professor of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu
Administrative responsibilities
2010 - ... Member of the International Association of the History of Religions
2010 - ... Expert of the Finnish Academy (projects in cultural research)
2010 - ... Expert of grant projects of the Slovenian Research Agency
2009 - ... Member of the executive committee of the Estonian Society for the Study of Religions
2009 - ... Vice-President of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR)
2009 - ... Member of the editorial board of "Journal of Indian Folkloristics" (Mysore, India)
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