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Ülo Valk <ulo.valk@ut.ee> University of Tartu Genre system of folklore, legends and demonology, social context of legends, vernacular religion. |
| Address: | Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore University of Tartu Ülikooli 16 Tartu, Estonia 51003 Estonia |
| Primary Phone: | +372-7375310 |
| Fax Number: | +372-7375310 |
| List Affiliations: | Former List Editor for H-Folk |
| Interests: | Anthropology Asian History / Studies Oral History Religious Studies and Theology |
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Bio: I studied folklore and literature at the University of Tartu during 1980-1986. In 1994 I defended my PhD dissertation "Image of the Devil in Estonian Folk Religion". At present I am the professor of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu. My publications include works on folk religion, demonology, legends and other genres of belief, such as: Ghostly Possession and Real Estate: the Dead in Contemporary Estonian Folklore. – Journal of Folklore Research. Vol. 43, No. 1, 2006. 31-51. Assami jutud muistenditest müütideni: Tähelepanekuid usundilise folkloori žanridünaamikast. Eesti Akadeemilise Orientaalseltsi Aastaraamat 2006. Eesti Akadeemiline Orientaalselts: Tallinna Raamatutrükikoda. 126-150. [Assamese narratives from legends to myths: Remarks on the Genre Dynamics of Religious Folklore. Yearbook of the Estonian Oriental Society] “Tallima Paap as a Popular Prophet of the Eighteenth Century: Looking Beyond his Teachings”. Confessional Sanctity (c. 1500 – c. 1800). Ed. by Jürgen Beyer, Albrecht Burkardt, Fred van Lieburg & Marc Wingens. Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Mainz am Rhein. 2004. 357-371. “Talking with the Dead: Poetic Possession in Estonian Folk Religion.” - Kieler Blätter zur Volkskunde 35/2003. Herausgegeben von Silke Göttsch und Kai Detler Sievers. Kommissionsverlag Walter G. Mühlau, Kiel. 15-21. “Authorship and Textuality. Kalevipoeg as Epic Landscape”. – Kalevala and the World’s Traditional Epics. Ed. By Lauri Honko. Studia Fennica Folkloristica 12. Finnish Literature Society: Helsinki, 2002. 405-417. The Black Gentleman. Manifestations of the Devil in Estonian Folk Religion. Folklore Fellows Communicarions No. 276. Helsinki, 2001. (217 pp.) “Ex Ovo Omnia: Where Does the Balto-Finnic Cosmogony Originate?” - Oral Tradition. Volume 15, Number 1. March, 2000. Slavica Publishers, Inc. Indiana University. 145-158. |
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