Merilin Kotta
Lecturer of Spanish Culture
School of Humanities
S-525A
merilin.kotta@tlu.ee
Introduction
Merilin Kotta holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in History from Tallinn University, MA and PhD degree in Spanish Language and Literature from Tartu University. She studied Catalan Philology at the universities of Girona, Valencia and Balearic Islands. Her PhD thesis dealt with the writing process in current short stories. She has translated Catalan (Riera, Sarri脿, Carrillo), Basque (Uribe, Atxaga), Mexican (Fuentes), Spanish (Cercas) and Colombian (Garc铆a M谩rquez) literature.
Main tasks
Teaching: Spanish History, Society and Culture
Administrating Spanish Language and Culture study area
Supervising of research papers
Areas of research
The Catalan, Basque, Galician and Spanish literature, metafiction and photography
Metafiction
Literary multilingualism
Literary translation