Liina Lukas

Liina Lukas (born 5 August 1970) is an Estonian literary scholar and translator.

Education Lukas received her BA (1995), MA (1998) and PhD (2006) from the University of Tartu.

Research and projects Lukas’s work centres on cultural transfer and literary relations in the Baltic region, with an emphasis on multilingual literary history and Baltic German writing. The series and related research have also been presented internationally as a Baltic Historical Commission–linked project led by Lukas.

The University of Tartu profile also credits Lukas with leading the digital text repository of older Estonian literature EEVA for two decades. (Ed., with Michael Schwidtal and Jaan Undusk) Politische Dimensionen der deutschbaltischen literarischen Kultur (Schriften der Baltischen Historischen Kommission 22). Berlin/Münster: LIT Verlag, 2018. (Ed., with Silke Pasewalck, Vinzenz Hoppe and Kaspar Renner) Medien der Aufklärung – Aufklärung der Medien. Die baltische Aufklärung im europäischen Kontext. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. (Ed., with Eva Piirimäe and Johannes Schmidt) Herder on Empathy and Sympathy / Einfühlung und Sympathie im Denken Herders. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2020.

Selected articles Lukas, Liina. “Estonian Folklore as a Source of Baltic-German Poetry.” Journal of Baltic Studies (2011). Lukas, Liina. “Maailmakirjanduse mõõtmisest meil ja mujal / Conceptualizations of World Literature in Estonia and Elsewhere.” Methis. Studia humaniora Estonica (2016).

Awards and honours In 2012 Lukas received the Vilis Vītols Article Prize of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) for the previous year’s best article in the Journal of Baltic Studies.

In 2016 she was awarded the University of Tartu Badge of Distinction (Tartu Ülikooli aumärk).

In the media Lukas has appeared in Estonian cultural media discussing literary history and translation, including interviews connected to Goethe translation projects and Baltic literary culture.