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Grigori Utgof serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Russian Literature at Tallinn University, Estonia, where he continues active scholarship in Russian literary studies. His institutional affiliation traces to Tallinn Pedagogical University (now integrated into Tallinn University), with documented departmental history spanning 1979-2023.
Utgof's research centers on four core domains: Poetics, Translation Theory, History of Russian Literature, and General Text Theory. His work demonstrates exceptional depth in Nabokov studies (prosodic analysis of quasi-trochees, unpublished reviews) and Yuri Lotman's semiotic theories, while bridging literary criticism with linguistic precision through syntactic tempo investigations in Russian and Estonian contexts.
Analysis of his 15 most recent publications (2007-2024) reveals two interconnected scholarly trajectories: rigorous bibliographic curation for Slavica Revalensia and Studia Slavica journals, and critical examinations of canonical Russian authors. This dual focus manifests in comprehensive indexes covering 1999-2023 alongside innovative studies of Nabokov's prosody and Lotman's unpublished notes, complemented by academic tributes to scholars like Lazar Fleishman and James Bailey.
