Timo Maran
Timo Maran is an Estonian biosemiotician and poet. He has remarkably contributed to zoosemiotics and ecosemiotics.
In 2012-2024, he was the head of the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu.
Membership in organizations:
- Estonian Naturalists' Society
- Estonian Semiotics Association
- Estonian Literary Society
- Estonian Writers' Union
- European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment
- International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
- Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies
Works
- 2001 poetry collection "Põhjavesi"
- 2007 poetry collection "Metsa pööramine"
- 2007 poetry collection "Poeetiline punane raamat / Poetics of Endangered Species"
- 2015 poetry collection "Las ma ümisen"
- 2015 children stories "Kodukakk, päevakoer ja teised"
- 2017 monograph "Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry"
- 2019 poetry collection "Metsloomatruudus"
- 2020 monograph "Ecosemiotics. The Study of Signs in Changing Ecologies"
- 2023 collection of selected poems "Ainult puudutused on"