VU Faculty of Philology

Department of English Philology

	Area of interests	Contacts
PROFESSORS
Prof dr (HP) Regina Rudaitytė	Comparative Literature Contemporary British Literature Cultural Studies Literary Translation
Prof dr Almantas Samalavičius	Architectural History and Theory Baroque Architecture Aesthetics of Architecture, Urbanism Postcolonialism Lithuanian Literature Cultural Theory and Cultural Studies
Prof habil dr Aurelija Usonienė	Contrastive analysis Epistemic Modality, Evidentiality Corpus Linguistics Syntax-semantics Interaction Grammaticalization, Pragmaticalization	personal website
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 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
Assoc Prof dr Deimantas Valančiūnas	Cinema studies Postcolonialism Popular culture Cultural studies
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 Anna Ruskan	Evidentiality Epistemic modality Academic discourse Media discourse Contrastive linguistics Corpus linguistics
Dr Audronė Šolienė	Contrastive linguistics Corpus linguistics Epistemic modality Evidentiality Translation
Dr Justina Urbonaitė	Cognitive linguistics ESP (legal English)
JUNIOR ASSISTANTS
Grant Rosson	19th-century American literature Literatures of space, place, and travel The history of geographic discourse Historical poetry and poetics Emily Dickinson
Eimantė Liubertaitė	British and American literature Philosophy Literary theory
LECTURERS
Greta Belogurova	Semantics Corpus linguistics Contrastive linguistics
Jurga Kasteckienė	Academic Writing Academic discourse analysis ESP (business English)
Deividas Zibalas	Discourse analysis

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.
LECTURERS
Alessandra Calì	Theatre studies Theory and practice of translation
Dr Aušra Gataveckaitė	Modern Italian literature History of Italian language Methodology of teaching Italian as foreign language
Paola Fertoli	Italian culture, art, cinema Italian language
Ieva Kirilauskaitė	Italian language
Davide Trezzi	Italian language

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 habil dr Fatima Eloeva	Medieval Greek literature Modern Greek literature Comparative studies of literature Dialectology of modern Greek language Typology of literary standards Sociolinguistics, etnolinguistics
Prof habil dr Eugenija Ulčinaitė, emerita	Literature of Antiquity Latin literature of Lithuania Classical Rhetoric
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
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 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
ASSISTANTS
Dr Jovita Dikmonienė	Literature of Antiquity Classical dramaturgy and its reception
Dr Dovilė Keršienė	Latin language XIV–XVI century literature Epistolography and epistolic
JUNIOR ASSISTANTS
Nijolė Klingaitė-Dasevičienė
Paulius Garbačiauskas	Didactic poetry Hellenistic poetry Greek philosophy Platonic studies
Alius Jaskelevičius	Platonic philosophy Reception of Platonic philosophy History of Ancient Greece
Antanas Keturakis	Latin language
Anna Marija Mackevič	Latin language
Živilė Pabijutaitė	Latin language
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
Dovilė Čitavičiūtė	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

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	Studies of modern French and female francophonic literature Comparative studies of women literature Studies of motherhood Psychoanalytical theory of feminism Studies of migration and exile
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
Dr Jūratė Navakauskienė	Comparative typology of Lithuanian and French odern French literature Translation theory
Lina Perkauskytė	Linguistics of text Sociolinguistics
Daiva Repeikaitė-Jarmalavičienė	Linguodidactics
Inga Šerniuvienė	French language teaching
Estera Zingerytė	Phonetics of French language

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