Editor-in-chief
- Ergo-Hart Västrik, University of Tartu
Editors
- Risto Järv, Estonian Literary Museum
- Indrek Jääts, Estonian National Museum, Estonia
- Art Leete, University of Tartu
- Aado Lintrop, Estonian Literary Museum
- Pille Runnel, Estonian National Museum
- Ülo Valk, University of Tartu
Copyeditor
- Toivo Sikka, Estonian National Museum, Estonia
Layout Editor
- Tuuli Kaalep, Estonian National Museum
Language Editor
- Daniel Edward Allen, Estonia
Editorial Board
- Pertti J. Anttonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Georgetown University, United States
- Dace Bula, Latvian University, Latvia
- Tatyana Bulgakova, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Russian Federation
- Anne-Victoire Charrin, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France
- Silke Göttsch-Elten, Universität Kiel, Germany
- Lauri Harvilahti, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Finland
- Mihály Hoppál, Ethnographic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
- Bo Lönnqvist, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- Margaret Mackay, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Irena Regina Merkienė, Lithuanian Institute of History, Lithuania
- Stefano Montes, Tallinn University, Estonia
- Kjell Olsen, Finnmark University College, Norway
- Alexander Panchenko, Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
- Éva Pócs, University of Pécs, Hungary
- Peter P. Schweitzer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States
- Victor Semenov, Syktyvkar State University, Russian Federation
- Anna-Leena Siikala, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Timothy R. Tangherlini, University of California Los Angeles, United States
- Peeter Torop, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Ants Viires, Institute of History, Tallinn University, Estonia
- Žarka Vujić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Elle Vunder, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
ISSN (print) 1736-6518. ISSN (online) 2228-0987. JEF is a joint publication of the University of Tartu, the Estonian National Museum and the Estonian Literary Museum.