Kaidi Kriisa

Kaidi Kriisa is a lecturer in Latin at the University of Tartu. She teaches a number of Latin courses to the students of medicine, pharmacy, biology, different philologies etc, including courses on medieval Latin and Latin lyrics. Her main research interests include the history of the Latin language with a special focus on the early modern Latin; the history of early modern European universities (especially the history of Academia Dorpatensis 1632–1710) and the academic language use; historical sociolinguistics and multilingual practices (including different code-switching theories and practices). She has mainly published on these topics, but also on Latin inscriptions found in a number of Estonian churches.

Selected publications:

• Kriisa, Kaidi (2021). Hidden Functions of Code-Switching mit Deutsch in Some of the Academic Texts from the Early Modern Academia Dorpatensis (1632-1710). Glaser, Elvira; Prinz, Michael; Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (Toim.). Historisches Codeswitching mit Deutsch. Multilinguale Praktiken in der Sprachgeschichte (269−302). Berlin: De Gruyter. (Studia Linguistica Germanica). 
• Kriisa, Kaidi (2019). Multilingual Practices in the Texts of Friedrich Menius, the First Professor of History and Anitquities at the Early Modern University of Dorpat (Academia Gustaviana). Acta Comeniana. lnternational review of Comenius studies and early modern intellectual history, LVII (33), 57−78.
• Arukask, Anni; Kriisa, Kaidi; Lotman, Maria-Kristiina; Truusalu, Tuuli Triin; Uudevald, Martin; Viiding, Kristi (2018). Verse texts in the Latin inscriptions of Estonian ecclesiastical space: meter and prosody. Studia Metrica et Poetica, 5 (1), 80−104.
• Kriisa, Kaidi (2017). Vernacular languages instead of Latin - the transition in academic dissertations and orations at the university of Tartu (Academia Gustaviana) in the 17th century. In: Arne Jönsson; Gregor Vogt-Spira (_EditorsAbbr). Antike nach der Antike: Der Ostseeraum. Praktiken - Diskurse - Modellbildungen – Funktionalisierunge (407−426). Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. (Spudasmata).
• Kriisa, Kaidi (2017). Language change in academic texts from the University of Dorpat in the seventeenth century: scholarship applications as examples of students' multilingual practices. In: Festschrift to Arne Jönsson (755−777). Gothenburg: Makadan publishing house.
• Viiding, Kristi; Lotman, Maria-Kristiina; Arukask, Anni; Kriisa, Kaidi; Truusalu, Tuuli Triin (2015). Ramus poeticus. Zu den lateinischen Grabgedichten auf dem Sarkophag von Thomas Ramm in der Tallinner Domkirche. Baltic Journal of Art History, 10, 85−101.

Projects: 

• PUT1030 “Masterpieces of Humanism in Livonia: David Hilchen's epistolography as a source of language, literary, juridical and educational history (1.01.2016−31.12.2019)”, Kristi Viiding, Under and Tuglas Literature Centre. 
   

More publications and information in the Estonian Research Information System.

Research clusters:

• Classical Tradition and History of the University of Tartu in Early European Cultural Tradition

Contact: kaidi.kriisa@ut.ee

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