Merily Salura is a PhD student of art history and visual culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She studies the temporality of creative processes in the experience of writers and visual artists from a Gadamerian lens, drawing from interviews with two Estonian writers (Viivi Luik and Peeter Sauter) and two visual artists (Kaido Ole, Tõnis Saadoja) in particular. She defended her bachelor’s thesis (2015) at Tallinn University in culture theory and master’s thesis (2017) at the University of Tartu in philosophy. She has translated Hannah Arendt’s “Origins of Totalitarianism” into Estonian (2026), organized conferences, co-hosted and edited a philosophy-themed radio show “Polüloog” and taught courses (on philosophy and studies of visual culture) at the University of Colorado at Boulder as well as the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Main publications
Articles
Merily Salura, Kyle York (forthcoming), The Beauty of Ambiguity. – J. Heter, R. Greene (eds.), 90s Alternative and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Heart-Shaped Box. Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series.