Mele Pesti

Mele Pesti is a lecturer in Latin American Studies at Tallinn University. Her research and teaching focus on Latin American culture and society, particularly Brazil, postcolonial thought, and the relationship between culture and politics. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Tallinn University, where her dissertation examined how the concept of “anthropophagy” in Brazilian modernism developed into a cultural model. She has studied at the University of São Paulo and the University of Lisbon. Pesti has taught at several Estonian universities and Saaremaa Gymnasium, and has given public lectures. For over 20 years, she has introduced Latin American culture and society in Estonia, participated in European Commission election observation missions, commented on regional affairs in the media, hosted the Vikerraadio series “Abya Yala: The Heart of the Americas,” and translated Brazilian literature into Estonian.