Janika Päll

Janika Päll is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Tartu. She has been teaching classics at the University of Tartu since 1995. In addition to her current position at the Department of Classical Studies, she has also been working as a researcher and leader of Humanist Greek research projects at the University of Tartu Library research centre since 2014. 
Her main research interests include ancient languages (mainly Greek and Latin syntax and prosody), Greek and Roman literature (especially poetry from Homer to Byzantine period and from Lucretius to Poliziano; as well as rhetorical prose), ancient philosophy and its reception and the reception of antiquity (including translation history). She is also focusing on Neo-Latin and Humanist Greek literature (especially university dissertations, the tradition of rhetoric and Humanist Greek poetry). She is currently leading the creation of the database of Humanist Greek literature at the University of Tartu Library. 
Janika Päll has been translating ancient literature since 1995. She also teaches on both undergraduate and graduate levels, including general courses on Ancient Greek and Roman literature and languages, the tradition of antiquity, poetics and rhetoric, as well as specialized courses on various Greek and Roman authors and genres (currently from Homer, Archaic Greek Lyric, Euripides, Demosthenes and Hellenistic Poetry to Caesar, Seneca and Neo-Latin literature). 

Selected publications:

• Päll, Janika (2020). German Neo-Humanism vs rising professionalism: "Carmina Hellenica Teutonum" by Braunschweig physician and philhellene Karl Friedrich Arend Scheller. In: Kajava, M., Korhonen, T. and Vesterinen, J. (Ed.). Meilicha Dōra. Poems and prose in Greek from Renaissance and modern Europe (299−332). Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica
• Päll, Janika (2020). Greek disputations in German and Swedish Universities and Academic Gymnasia in the 17th and Early 18th Century. In: Marti, H.; Seidel, R.; Friedenthal, M. (Ed.). Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context (728−778). Leiden, Boston: Brill. (Intersections; 71). 
• Päll, Janika (2019). Vocabulaire commenté de l'Odyssée: Livre 11. Steinrück, M.; Päll, J.; Roduit, A.; Munoz, A.-I.. Vocabulaire commenté de l'Odyssée (378−424). Trieste: EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste. (Polymnia: Collana di Scienze dell'Antichità).
• Päll, Janika (2017). The transfer of Greek Pindaric Ode from Italy to the Northern shores: from Robortello to Vogelmann and further. In: Weise, Stefan (Ed.). Hellenisti! Altgriechisch als Literatursprache im neuzeitlichen Europa (349−368). Franz Steiner Verlag. 
• Päll, J. (2011). Public speaking and speaker’s identity - Gorgias as an orator-poet. In: Dietrich, Manfred, Loretz, Oswald, Neumann, Hans (Ed.). Alter Orient und Altes Testament (201−218). Münster: Ugarit Verlag. (Acta Antiqua mediterranea et orientalia. Identities and Societies in the Ancient East-Mediterranean Regions; 1).
   

More publications and information in the Estonian Research Information System.

Research clusters:

• Classical Tradition, Studies of Antiquity, the History of Translation and the History of the University of Tartu in Early European Cultural Tradition

Contact: janika.pall@ut.ee

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