Modern and Contemporary Literature

Her main research interests in the field of contemporary French-language literature include reader-response theories; ecocriticism and geopoetics; literature and psychoanalysis. She has worked extensively on the novels of French author Jean Echenoz and the novels, plays and autobiographical narratives by Quebec author Michel Tremblay. She is also interested in contemporary art and currently developing a research-creation approach to research.

Selected publications:

Bédard-Goulet, Sara (2021). Carte blanche to Travel Narrative: Philippe Vasset’s Un livre blanc. Journeys. The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, 22 (1), 39−55.
Bédard-Goulet, Sara (2021). 14 or the Missing Arm: Ontological Instability of the French Contemporary Novel in Jean Echenoz’s Work. In: Galis, Polly; Tomlinson, Maria & Wimbush, Antonia (Ed.). Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture: Transformation, Fragmentation and Aestheticization (167−186). Bern: Peter Lang. (Modern French Identities).
Bédard-Goulet, Sara (2020). Usages de l’image cinématographique dans Les Grandes blondes de Jean Echenoz. Études françaises, 56 (2), 121−135.
Bédard-Goulet, Sara (2020). Cauliflowers and Plane Trees: Cultivated Vegetal in Le Méridien de Greenwich (1979) by Jean Echenoz. L'esprit créateur, 60 (4), 121−133.
Bédard-Goulet, Sara & Vinot, Frédéric (2019). L’événement de spectature et l’image cinématographique dans Les Vues animées de Michel Tremblay. Synergies - Pays riverains de la Baltique, 49−60.
Bédard-Goulet, Sara (2018). Distante familiarité du lieu mythique dans l'œuvre de Michel Tremblay. Vanessa Courville, George Desmeules and Christiane Lahaie. Les Territoires imaginaires: lieu et mythe dans la littérature québécoise (97−109). Montréal: L'Instant même.

Research clusters:

Contemporary Literature, Society and Cultural Practices of Representation in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Her main research interests include gender in modernist and contemporary literature and cultural practices; affects of neoliberalism; the reception of gender in the postsocialist context; the possibilities of combining affect and discourse studies; politics of representation. She has published extensively on these topics internationally and in Estonian. She is the author of the first Estonian textbook on gender studies and has collaborated with various governmental and non-governmental organizations on gender issues.

Research clusters:

Text and Discourse Studies in Linguistics
Contemporary Literature, Society and Cultural Practices of Representation in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Her main research interests include literary translation, its reception and functioning in society, Hispanic studies, and literary studies (narrative and fiction theory). She mainly teaches translation and literature delivering courses on Spanish literature and literature in Spanish-speaking countries, translation criticism, text analysis, translation seminars, and also courses on the literary texts in the Estonian culture of translation. She has also translated literature in Spanish into Estonian, among other works Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar and The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño.

Selected publications:

Kaldjärv, Klaarika (2019). La función nacional de la traducción: el método equimétrico y el caso del Romance sonámbulo en estonio. [Tõlkimise rahvuslik funktsioon: ekvimeetriline tõlkemeetod ja "Romance sonámbulo" eesti keeles.] Mirko Lampis. EN LOS LÍMITES DE LA TRADUCCIÓN Las prácticas traductivas como cuestión sociocultural (32−41). Hispaania: Ediciones Alfar.
Gielen, Katiliina; Kaldjärv, Klaarika (2019). Mission and Sacrifice: Myths of Estonian Translation History. Acta Slavica Estonica, X, 310−327.
Kaldjärv, Klaarika (2018). Jutustaja ja fiktsionaalsed maailmad. Tõlkija hääl. Eesti Kirjanike Liidu tõlkijate sektsiooni aastaraamat, 6, 74−82.
Gielen, Katiliina; Kaldjärv Klaarika (2018). World Literature in Estonia: the construction of national translation ethics. Interlitteraria, Vol 23 (No 1), 19−32.
Kaldjärv, Klaarika (2017). Tõlkija kui nähtamatu maag: näiteid hispaaniakeelse kirjanduse tõlgetest Jüri Talveti tõlkemõtte valguses. Methis. Studia humaniora Estonica, 17/18, 70−93.
Kaldjärv, Klaarika (2017). Teooria ja praktika vahel ehk ikka puuduvast tõlkekriitikast. Keel ja Kirjandus, 939−943.

Research clusters:

Translation History and Philosophical Approaches in Translation Studies
The History of Translation in Early European Cultural Tradition
Text and Discourse Studies in Linguistics
Ideology of Translation and Translation of Ideology and Contemporary Liiterature, Society and Cultural Practices of Representation in Modern and Contemporary Literature