Epp Annus is an associate professor at Tallinn University's Institute of Humanities in Estonia; she also lectures at the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University (U.S.). She received her Ph.D. from the University of Tartu, also in Estonia.
As a postcolonial/decolonial scholar, she is interested in the complex ideological entanglements of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Her recent books include Soviet Postcolonial Studies: A View From the Western Borderlands and Coloniality, Nationality, Modernity: A Postcolonial View on Baltic Cultures Under Soviet Rule, which she edited (both published by Routledge in 2018). She is also an author or co-author of three monographs and three collective volumes in Estonian.
Her current project, The Politics of Eco-Intimacy: Constructing Subjecthood in the Soviet-Era Baltics, explores connections and linkages between eco-intimacy – the feeling of belonging together with one’s natural surroundings – and models of subjectivity in the Soviet period and the subsequent era of transition. Her work in progress also includes a comparative analysis of Soviet and post-Soviet postcolonial literatures and a book chapter, "Neoliberal Revolutionaries: The Idea of Economic Self-Management in the Late 1980s Estonian SSR."
In addition to her work as a scholar, she has published two novels, some poetry, and several children’s books.
