Aija Sakova

Aija Sakova has studied at the University of Tartu, the University of Konstanz, the University of Vienna, and Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2014, she defended her doctoral dissertation in Estonian literature. As a literary scholar and Germanist, Sakova’s research has focused on memory studies and the philosophy of memory, as well as questions of autobiographical writing and identity formation in Estonian-Russian and Estonian diaspora literature. Aija Sakova has worked as a science journalist for the newspaper Universitas Tartuensis, head of the Baltic and rare books department and development and communications manager at the Academic Library of Tallinn University, and as a senior researcher at the Estonian Literary Museum. From 2021 to 2026, Sakova was Tallinn University’s Head of Entrepreneurship Cooperation and Knowledge Transfer. She is an active literary critic and essayist and a member of the Estonian Writers’ Union as well as several cultural and academic societies.