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Assistant Professor
Address: Universiteto 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Office hours: contact by e-mail
Research interests
- 19th-century American literature
- Literatures of space, place, and travel
- The history of geographic discourse
- Historical poetry and poetics
Courses taught
- Poetry in 19th-Century American Society
- Literatures of American Travel
- American Short Story;Modern English III/IV
- Literature and ‘the Author Question’ in Literary Discourse
PUBLICATIONS
Chapters in books
- Dickinson’s Geographic Poetics, in The New Emily Dickinson Studies, ed. Michelle Kohler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 168-186.
Reviews
- Review of Whitman & Dickinson: A Colloquy, ed. by Éric Athenot and Cristanne Miller. Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 47, no. 3 (April 2018).
- Review of Excursions with Thoreau: Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, by Edward F. Mooney. Thoreau Society Bulletin (Spring 2017).
RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
PhD dissertation
- Ph.D. in English Literature from University of California, Los Angeles; Dissertation Title: Writing Country: Geography and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Conferences
- "Charles Brockden Brown’s Magazines and the Birth of Critical Geography.” British Association for American Studies Annual Meeting. April 6-11, 2021.
- “Emily Dickinson’s Narrative Cartography,” MLA 2018 Convention, New York City. January 2018.
- Keynote Address: “Dickinson’s Interiors: A Theory of Authorship in the Todd Correspondence,” Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting, Amherst, Massachusetts. August 2017.
- “Are not those your / Countrymen?”: Dickinson’s Defense in the Higginson Letters,” Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting, Paris. June 2016.
- “‘Tumultuous Privacy’: Spatial Poetics and Dickinson’s Late Epistolarity.” Dickinson Institute Workshop. Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting, Amherst, Massachusetts. August 2015.
- “Invocations of America: Space, Place, and Imagination in James Boswell’s Hebrides Journal.” PAMLA Convention, University of California, Riverside. November 2014.