ABOUT
Assistant professor
Adress: Universiteto 5, LT-01513 Vilnius, Department of Classical Philology
Telephone: +370 5 268 7220
Email: .
Research interests
- Aesthetics of antiquity
- Ancient Greek and Roman culture and art
- Ancient Greek and Roman literature
- Early modern aesthetic categories
Courses Taught
- Ancient Greek and Roman literature
- Culture and Art of Antiquity: Rome
- Culture and Art of Antiquity: Greece
- Concepts of art and beauty in Classical cultureCity in Classical culture
- French literature (Medieval to 18th-century)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
- 2024. Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. Translation, introduction, and commentary. Vilnius: Naujasis Židinys-Aidai.
Book Chapters
- 2023. “Innovation and fusion: Sarbiewski's theory of Baroque literary style”. Baroque Latinity. Studies in the Neo-Latin Literature of the European Baroque. Eds. Jacqueline Glomski, Gesine Manuwald, Andrew Taylor. London: Bloombsury, p. 69–84.
Scholarly Articles
- “Wingless Angels: Homer as an Authoritative Historical and Aesthetic Source in Early Modern Period”. Literatūra 63(3), 2021, p. 48–57.
- “(Not an) ambivalence toward Michelangelo in Federico Borromeo’s De pictura sacra and Musaeum”. Literatūra 62(3), 2020, p. 111–120.
- “Classical texts in the art treatises of early Modern Period”. Literatūra 61(3), 2019, p. 98–108.
RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
PhD thesis
- 2023. “Formation of Baroque Aesthetic Categories in the Post-Tridentine Aesthetic Theory Treatises”, Vilniaus universitetas, academic supervisor assoc. prof. dr. Vytautas Ališauskas.
Research projects
- Postdoctoral research project “Polemics on Sacred Images in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the mid-16th to mid-17th Century: theory and artistic practice”. Vilnius Academy of Arts; received funding from the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT), agreement No. S-PD-24-48 (2024–2026).
Conferences, lectures, and seminars
- 2024-10-17/19. “Naturalia versus artificialia in the tragedies based on the mythology of Phaedra (Seneca and Jean Racine)”, paper in the international scientific conference “Colloquium Balticum Rigense: Naturalia et artificialia”, Latvija: Latvijos universitetas.
- 2024-06-27/28. “‘At first I thought it would be boring’. Critical Thinking in Classical Studies Classroom”, paper in the international scientific conference „Nurturing Critical Minds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Education and the Workforce“, Vilnius: Vilnius University.
- 2024-02-23/25. “Ignoring breastfeeding: The iconographic confusion of the 16th century and its modern reminiscences”, paper in the international scientific conference „Thinking through Motherhood: Images, Experiences and Narratives Across Time“, Vilnius: Vilnius University.
- 2023-12-05. “Reevaluation of Aesthetic Categories in Early Modern Period”, international seminar “Latinistik-Kolloquium”, Berlin: Freie Universität.
- 2023-11-23. “Extracting the essence: tools of applied linguistics to define aesthetic categories”, international seminar in the project AL4ALL of ARQUS network.
- 2022-10-12/15. “The Canon of Classical authors and the Early Modern Aesthetic Theory” paper in the international scientific conference “Colloquium Balticum Tartuense XIX: Philologia magistra vitae”, Tartu: Tartu University.
- 2021-09-17/18. “The innovator of Baroque literature: M. C. Sarbievius’s De acuto et arguto”, paper in the international scientific conference “Baroque Latinity”, The Society for Neo-Latin Studies, UCL, & The Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies, Cambridge University.
- 2019-11- 21/22. “Karas knygomis – akademinis bendradarbiavimas ir tarpkonfesinė polemika XVI amžiaus ATR” [The Book War: Academic cooperation and inter-confessional polemics in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of the 16th century], paper in the international scientific conference „Su Erelio ir Vyčio ženklais. Lenkijos ir Lietuvos moksliniai ir kultūriniai ryšiai Vilniaus universiteto istorijoje“, Vilnius: Vilnius University.
- 2019-7- 9/11. “An Outpost of Militant Church and Christian Unity”, paper in the international scientific conference „Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods“, Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University.
Reviews
- Review of Annette Haug, Adrian Hielscher, Anna-Lena Krüger, Neighbourhoods and city quarters in antiquity: design and experience. Decorative principles in late Republican and early Imperial Italy (Decor), 7. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. vii, 176. ISBN 9783111238029. 2024-08-26, https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2024/2024.08.26/
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Review of Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, José Luís Brandão, Cláudia Teixeira, Ália Rodrigues, Roman identity: between ideal and performance. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 402. ISBN 9782503599229. 2024-01-29, https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2024/2024.01.29/