Elo-Hanna Seljamaa is an Associate Professor at the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, Estonia. She continues to explore issues pertaining to ethnicity, nationalism, and diversity, currently in the framework of a University of Helsinki research project about the transnational memory cultures of Ingrian Finns. From 2018–2021 she was the principal investigator of the start-up grant Performative Negotiations of Belonging in Contemporary Estonia funded by the Estonian Research Council. Elo-Hanna enjoys writing about art and translating. She serves as one of the editors of the Lexington Books series Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities and is in the process of taking over the editorship of the journal Narrative Culture together with Sheila Bock, a fellow OSU alumna. Much of her time is taken up by teaching, supervising, and administrating. In 2017 a new international master’s program Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies was launched in Tartu and Elo-Hanna has been directing it since. She writes, "Working with a super diverse student body is a privilege as well as a great learning experience, and I am very grateful to have my own OSU Comp Studies years to draw on. I always felt welcomed and supported, and I want our students in Tartu to feel the same way and to have the same freedom to think and act across disciplinary boundaries."
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