Department of English Philology
| Area of interests | Contacts | |
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| PROFESSORS | ||
| Prof. Dr Almantas Samalavičius | Architectural History and Theory Baroque Architecture Aesthetics of Architecture, Urbanism Postcolonialism Lithuanian Literature Cultural Theory and Cultural Studies |
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| ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS | ||
| Assoc. Prof. Dr Giedrė Balčytytė-Kurtinienė | Phonetics and phonology of English, tonal models of languages Influence of music to studying foreign language Synergy of language and music |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Linara Bartkuvienė | English literature (UK, Ireland, USA) | |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr Anna Ruskan | Evidentiality Epistemic modality Academic discourse Media discourse Contrastive linguistics Corpus linguistics |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Jolanta Šinkūnienė (chair of the department) | Written academic discourse (cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary comparison of academic texts) Pragmatics, Semantics Discourse analysis Computational linguistics Contrastive linguistics Corpus linguistics Modality, Evidentiality |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Rūta Šlapkauskaitė | English literature of Canada, Australia, UK, Ireland, and USA Modern rewritings of Victorian novel Matterial culture and art |
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| ASSISTANTS | ||
| Dr Davide Castiglione | The notion of difficulty in poetry Stylistics and empirical approaches to literature The language of 20th century poetry Comparative poetics and literary translation (Italian-American-British) |
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| Dr Grant Rosson | 19th-century American literature Literatures of space, place, and travel The history of geographic discourse Historical poetry and poetics Emily Dickinson |
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| Dr Audronė Šolienė | Contrastive linguistics Corpus linguistics Epistemic modality Evidentiality Translation |
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| Dr Justina Urbonaitė | Cognitive linguistics Contemporary metaphor research Discourse analysis Applied linguistics English for specific (legal) purposes Translation |
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| JUNIOR ASSISTANTS | ||
| PhD student Andrius Ledas | ||
| PhD student Eimantė Liubertaitė | British and American literature Philosophy Literary theory |
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| PhD student Greta Maslauskienė |
Semantics Doctoral thesis: Lithuanian Spoken Academic Discourse: from Macro- to Micro- Analysis, supervisor Assoc. Prof. dr Jolanta Šinkūnienė |
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| PhD student Deividas Zibalas | Discourse analysis | |
| LECTURERS | ||
| Jurga Kasteckienė | Academic Writing Academic discourse analysis ESP (business English) |
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| PhD STUDENTS | ||
| Justina Liauksminienė | ||
Department of Italian Linguistics and Literature
Department of Classical Philology
| Area of interests | Contacts | |
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| Prof. Dr Vytautas Ališauskas | Culture and history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Baltic mythology Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy Christian and Classical literature |
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| Prof. Dr Habil Fatima Eloeva | Medieval Greek literature Modern Greek literature Comparative studies of literature Dialectology of modern Greek language Typology of literary standards Sociolinguistics, etnolinguistics |
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| Prof. Dr Habil Eugenija Ulčinaitė, emerita | Literature of Antiquity Latin literature of Lithuania Classical Rhetoric |
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| ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Mantas Adomėnas | ||
| Assoc. Prof. Dr Mintautas Čiurinskas | Biographical genre Biographistics reception in the literature of Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque Biographistics of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Latin literature of Lithuania Hagiographical researches |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė | ||
| Assoc. Prof. Dr Nijolė Juchnevičienė | History of Ancient Greece Historiography of Antiquity Literature of Antiquity |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Audronė Kučinskienė (chair of the department) | Speeches of Cicero Roman Rhetoric Roman literature Roman culture and art |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Mindaugas Strockis | Versification of Antiquity Prosody of Classical languages Lexicography of data bases |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Tomas Veteikis | Ancient Greek language and literature Latin language and literature Latin and Greek literature of Renaissance and Baroque History of education |
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| ASSISTANTS | ||
| Dr Jovita Dikmonienė | Literature of Antiquity Classical dramaturgy and its reception |
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| Dr Lina Girdvainytė | ||
| Dr Alius Jaskelevičius | Platonic philosophy Reception of Platonic philosophy History of Ancient Greece |
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| Dr Gintė Medzvieckaitė | Renaissance Culture Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music history Paraphrases of Latin Biblical texts in Renaissance poetry Methods of teaching Latin |
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| JUNIOR ASSISTANTS | ||
| PhD student Dovilė Čitavičiūtė | Latin language | |
| PhD student Ramunė Markevičiūtė | ||
| PhD student Tomas Riklius | ||
| PhD student Mantas Tamošaitis | ||
| LECTURERS | ||
| Dalia Andziulytė | Greek poetry and philosophy of Archaic period History of Classical art |
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| Jūratė Baronienė | Medical Latin and methodology of teaching specialised Latin language | |
| Paulius Garbačiauskas | Didactic poetry Hellenistic poetry Greek philosophy Platonic studies |
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| Antanas Keturakis | Latin language | |
| Renata Papšytė | Latin language | |
| Stasė Paškonytė | Medical Latin and methodology of teaching specialised Latin language | |
| Kristina Svarevičiūtė | Methods and theory of teaching Modern Greek as foreign language Literary relations of Byzatine Empire and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Poetry of XX century Greece |
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| Irena Štikonaitė | Methodology of teaching Latin language | |
| POSTGRADUATE TRAINEES | ||
| Dr Vilius Bartninkas | ||
| PhD STUDENTS | ||
| Gražina Kelmelytė-Ratniece (on academic leave) |
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| Skirmantas Knieža (on academic leave) |
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| Šarūnas Šavėla | Doctoral thesis: 'The Conceptualisation of Music in Ancient Greek Thought (V century B.C. – III century B.C.)', supervisors: Prof. dr Vytautas Ališauskas (Vilnius University), Prof. dr Donatella Restani (University of Bologna) | |
Department of French Philology
| Area of interests | Contacts | |
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| PROFESSORS | ||
| Prof. Dr Vytautas Bikulčius (chair of the department) | Theory of novel Philosophical novels Narratology French literature |
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| Prof. Dr Genovaitė Dručkutė | Comparative studies of French literature Cultural studies Gender studies Literary translation theory and practice |
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| ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS | ||
| Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan | Motherhood Studies Contemporary women's writing French and francophone literature Gender Studies Migration and mobility |
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| ASSISTANTS | ||
| Dr Vita Valiukienė | Linguodidactics Corpus linguistics |
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| JUNIOR ASSISTANTS | ||
| Povilas Birbilas | Studies of Charles Baudelaire XIX century French literature Poetry and theological aesthetics Dandyism in literature |
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| LECTURERS | ||
| Deimantė Baikštienė | Modern French language | |
| Dr Jūratė Navakauskienė | Comparative typology of Lithuanian and French Modern French literature Translation theory |
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| Romain Pargny | Modern French language | |
| Lina Perkauskytė | Linguistics of text Sociolinguistics |
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| Daiva Repeikaitė-Jarmalavičienė | Linguodidactics | |
| Inga Šerniuvienė | French language teaching | |