VU Faculty of Philology

Department of English Philology

	Area of interests	Contacts
PROFESSORS
Prof. Dr Almantas Samalavičius	Architectural History and Theory Baroque Architecture Aesthetics of Architecture, Urbanism Postcolonialism Lithuanian Literature Cultural Theory and Cultural Studies
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
Assoc. Prof. Dr Linara Bartkuvienė	English literature (UK, Ireland, USA)	personal website
Assoc. Prof. Dr Anna Ruskan	Evidentiality Epistemic modality Academic discourse Media discourse Contrastive linguistics Corpus linguistics
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
Assoc. Prof. Dr Rūta Šlapkauskaitė	English literature of Canada, Australia, UK, Ireland, and USA Modern rewritings of Victorian novel Matterial culture and art
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)
Dr Grant Rosson	19th-century American literature Literatures of space, place, and travel The history of geographic discourse Historical poetry and poetics Emily Dickinson
Dr Audronė Šolienė	Contrastive linguistics Corpus linguistics Epistemic modality Evidentiality Translation
Dr Justina Urbonaitė	Cognitive linguistics Contemporary metaphor research Discourse analysis Applied linguistics English for specific (legal) purposes Translation
JUNIOR ASSISTANTS
PhD student Andrius Ledas
PhD student Eimantė Liubertaitė	British and American literature Philosophy Literary theory
PhD student Greta Maslauskienė	Semantics Corpus linguistics Contrastive linguistics Doctoral thesis: Lithuanian Spoken Academic Discourse: from Macro- to Micro- Analysis, supervisor Assoc. Prof. dr Jolanta Šinkūnienė
PhD student Deividas Zibalas	Discourse analysis
LECTURERS
Jurga Kasteckienė	Academic Writing Academic discourse analysis ESP (business English)
PhD STUDENTS
Justina Liauksminienė

Department of Italian Linguistics and Literature

	Area of interests	Contacts
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Assoc. Prof. Dr Diego Ardoino (chair of the department)	Textology General and historical linguistics Dialectology Hermeneutics
Assoc. Prof. Dr Dainius Būrė	Comparative studies of literature Poetry and treatises of XI century Italy Translation
Assoc. Prof. Dr Novella Di Nunzio	Literature of XIX-XX century Italy Comparative studies of literature Theory of novel, narratology History and criticism of literature History of Italian cinema and theatre Phonology of Italian language.
ASSISTANTS
Dr Jogilė Teresa Ramonaitė	Second language acquisition Sociolinguistics Psycholinguistics
LECTURERS
Alessandra Calì	Theatre studies Theory and practice of translation
Paola Fertoli	Italian culture, art, cinema Italian language
Matteo Notari
Davide Trezzi	Italian language
PhD STUDENTS
Julija Šabasevičiūtė

Department of Classical Philology

	Area of interests	Contacts
PROFESSORS
Prof. Dr Vytautas Ališauskas	Culture and history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Baltic mythology Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy Christian and Classical literature
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
Prof. Dr Habil Eugenija Ulčinaitė, emerita	Literature of Antiquity Latin literature of Lithuania Classical Rhetoric
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
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
Assoc. Prof. Dr Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė
Assoc. Prof. Dr Nijolė Juchnevičienė	History of Ancient Greece Historiography of Antiquity Literature of Antiquity
Assoc. Prof. Dr Audronė Kučinskienė (chair of the department)	Speeches of Cicero Roman Rhetoric Roman literature Roman culture and art
Assoc. Prof. Dr Mindaugas Strockis	Versification of Antiquity Prosody of Classical languages Lexicography of data bases
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
ASSISTANTS
Dr Jovita Dikmonienė	Literature of Antiquity Classical dramaturgy and its reception
Dr Lina Girdvainytė
Dr Alius Jaskelevičius	Platonic philosophy Reception of Platonic philosophy History of Ancient Greece
Dr Gintė Medzvieckaitė	Renaissance Culture Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music history Paraphrases of Latin Biblical texts in Renaissance poetry Methods of teaching Latin
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
Jūratė Baronienė	Medical Latin and methodology of teaching specialised Latin language
Paulius Garbačiauskas	Didactic poetry Hellenistic poetry Greek philosophy Platonic studies
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
Irena Štikonaitė	Methodology of teaching Latin language
POSTGRADUATE TRAINEES
Dr Vilius Bartninkas
PhD STUDENTS
Gražina Kelmelytė-Ratniece (on academic leave)
Skirmantas Knieža (on academic leave)
Šarūnas Šavėla	Doctoral thesis: 'The Conceptualisation of Music in Ancient Greek Thought (V century B.C. – III century B.C.)', supervisors: Prof. r Vytautas Ališauskas (Vilnius University), Prof. Dr Donatella Restani (University of Bologna)

Department of French Philology

	Area of interests	Contacts
PROFESSORS
Prof. Dr Vytautas Bikulčius (chair of the department)	Theory of novel Philosophical novels Narratology French literature
Prof. Dr Genovaitė Dručkutė	Comparative studies of French literature Cultural studies Gender studies Literary translation theory and practice
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan	Motherhood Studies Contemporary women's writing French and francophone literature Gender Studies Migration and mobility
ASSISTANTS
Dr Vita Valiukienė	Linguodidactics Corpus linguistics
JUNIOR ASSISTANTS
Povilas Birbilas	Studies of Charles Baudelaire XIX century French literature Poetry and theological aesthetics Dandyism in literature
LECTURERS
Deimantė Baikštienė	Modern French language
Dr Jūratė Navakauskienė	Comparative typology of Lithuanian and French Modern French literature Translation theory
Romain Pargny	Modern French language
Lina Perkauskytė	Linguistics of text Sociolinguistics
Daiva Repeikaitė-Jarmalavičienė	Linguodidactics
Inga Šerniuvienė	French language teaching
PhD STUDENTS
Jonė Šulcaitė-Brollo	Contemporary Women’s Writing Contemporary French Literature Comparative Literature and Culture Studies Literary Criticism in the Context of the #MeToo Movement Gender Studies Doctoral thesis: ‘Reflection on sexual violence in contemporary Lithuanian, French and British women’s literature and culture’, supervisor – Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan (Vilnius University)

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