Viola Parente-Čapková

Beginning in 2024 Viola Parente-Čapková has been a senior researcher at the Under and Tuglas Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, as participating researcher under the aegis of the research project “Emergence of a Civilised Nation: Decadence and Transitionality in 1905‒1940” (PRG1667, see the project`s home page). She is also is a professor of Literary Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Turku.

Her research interests are fin de siècle Finnish literature, namely decadence in European perspective, fin de siècle women’s writing in Europe with a focus on Finland, transnational cultural and literary networks and transnational reception of women’s writing, theoretical issues in literary history, feminist literary theory, postcolonial theory, intermediality, and digital humanities.