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Janine Aloe is a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Tartu, Estonia. She has held this position since February 2024, previously serving as a Research Fellow from February 2023. Her work bridges linguistic analysis with ecological and political discourse, focusing on media representations of environmental crises.
Education:
- Master of Education, University of Münster (2018-2021)
- PhD Candidate in English Language and Literature, University of Tartu (2024-present)
Dr. Aloe specializes in critical discourse analysis of endangerment narratives, examining how Anglophone media frames species extinction and climate emergencies. Her research integrates environmental humanities with semiotic modeling to decode cultural meanings of ecological loss, while investigating political emotions driving democratic responses to inequality. Current projects explore crisis ordinariness through interdisciplinary lenses spanning literature, visual media, and ecological theory.
She contributes to major funded initiatives including the European Commission's €198,705 project on climate inequality and political emotions, and the Estonian Research Council's €760,450 study on endangered species semiotics. Her collaborative work with principal investigators Raili Marling and Timo Maran addresses discourse patterns in ecological crises through multi-methodological approaches.
As part of Tartu's research ecosystem, Dr. Aloe participates in cross-institutional teams focusing on cultural representations of environmental emergencies, combining textual analysis with creative research methodologies to interrogate humanity's relationship with ecological fragility.
