Benedikts Kalnačs#
| Membership Number: | 7479 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | LATVIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://lulfmi.lv/en/members/benedikts-kalnacs |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6435-325X |
| Publication Link: | https://lulfmi.lv/en/members/benedikts-kalnacs |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1999 - 2011 Director, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia
- 2004 Professor of Comparative Literature, Liepāja Academy of the Riga Technical University
- 2011 Senior researcher, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia
Fields of Scholarship
- Baltic drama
- Comparative literature
- Baltic literatures, inkl drama
- Postcolonial studies
- Theory of literary historiography
- History of small literatures
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Annual Prize for Literary Studies (Latvijas literatūras gada balva), Latvia
- 2022 Officer of the Order of Three Stars (Triju Zvaigžņu ordeņa virsnieks), Latvia
- 2022 Annual Prize of the Latvian Academy of Sciences for Outstanding Achievements in scholarship, Latvia
- 2015 Medal of the Baltic Academies of Sciences for long-standing contribution to the research on Baltic literatures
- 2005 Full Member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Latvia
- 2000 Vilis Plūdonis' Prize for Literary Studies of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Latvia
