Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan

PUBLICATIONS

Books

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• 2021 with Kate Averis and Catherine Mao (eds.), Transgression(s) in Twenty-First-Century Women’s Writing, Leiden: Brill-Rodopi, Faux Titre, vol. 444.

• 2019 with Marina Cavazza. Portrait of a (Working) Mother, Geneva: Georg, 147p.

• 2012 Savos ir svetimos (Strange and Familiar Selves) (Strange and Familiar Selves), Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 288p.

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Journal issues edited

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• 2019 with Kate Averis and Catherine Mao (eds.), Sexual/Textual Boundaries: Recent Women’s Writing in French, a special issue of L’Esprit Créateur, Vol. 59, No 3.

• 2019 with Kate Averis and Catherine Mao (eds.), Crossings in Women’s Writing in French in the Twenty-First Century, a special issue of Crossways Journal Vol. 3.1. Vol. 3.1. 

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Peer-reviewed articles

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• 2019‘ Relational Aspects of Migrant Mothering in Nathacha Appanah’s La Noce d’Anna and Ying Chen’s La Lenteur des montagnes,‘ Crossways Journal, 3/1.

• 2018 ‘Mothering in the Stepmother Tongue: Maternal Subjectivity and Linguistic Practice in Nancy Huston’s Autobiographical Non-Fiction,’ Nottingham French Studies, 57/3, pp. 274-285. DOI: 10.3366/nfs.2018.0224

• 2018 ‘Mothering Across Languages and Cultures in Chen’s Letters to her Children’ Women: A Cultural Review 29/1 (2018), pp. 59-74. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2018.1425536

• 2015 “Mothering in a Foreign Language: Silent and/or Multilingual Mothers in Dalia Staponkutė's The Silence of the Mothers”. Women’s Studies International Forum, special issue on Mothering and Migration, ed. Gill Rye, 52, pp. 82-91. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2015.06.004

• 2015 “Migrantės motinos tapatumas Betty Quan dramoje Gimtoji kalba”, Literatūra57(4), pp. 68-81. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15388/Litera.2015.4.9806

• 2012 ‘Nuo Vilniaus iki Ženevos: Sofijos Čiurlionienės-Kymantaitės dalyvavimas moterų judėjime ir veikla Tautų Sąjungoje’. Lyčių tyrimai ir studijos, 10 (10), pp. 8–15 ISBN: 2424-3310 

• 2009 ‘Save peraugantis tapatumas Alison Louise Kennedy kūriniuose Tai aš džiaugiuosi ir Pirminė palaima’. Literatūra, 51 (4), pp. 84–100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15388/Litera.2009.4.7749

• 2007 ‘Identity in A.L. Kennedy’s Novel So I am Glad and Short Story Original Bliss’, Literatūra, 48 (4), pp. 76-82. SSN 0258–0802.

• 2006 “Women's Literary Tradition in France and the UK?”, Acta litteraria comparativa : Kultūros intertekstai, Culture Intertexts 2, pp. 7-16.

• 2005 “Ar tebeaktualus ir ar tebemoteriškas‚ moterų rašymas”, Literatūra, 47 (4) pp.79-82.

• 2004 “Tapatumo problema Marie NDiaye romanuose”. Literatūra, 46 (4), pp. 95-103.

• 2002 “The World According to Woman”, Feminizmas, Visuomenė, Kultūra, (4) pp. 35-40.

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Peer-reviewed chapters

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• 2023 “Orality/Aurality and Voice of the Voiceless Mother in Abla Farhoud’s Happiness Has a Slippery Tail.” In Wahlström Henriksson, H., Williams, A., Fahlgren, M. (eds.) Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life Series. Palgrave Macmillan. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_5.

• 2021 'Mothering Across Languages and Cultures in Chen’s Letters to her Children', in Valerie Heffernan and Gay Wilgus (eds.) Imagining Motherhood in the Twenty-First-Century Women’s Writing, London: Routledge.

• ‘Migrant Maternal Subjectivities in Catherine Cusset’s Un brilliant avenir’. In Geneviève Guetemme (ed.) Écrire la mobilité. Représentations littéraires et artistiques, Editions Paradigmes, pp.231-248. 

• 2016 ‘Mother Tongue as the Language of Mothering and a Homing Practice in Betty Quan’s Mother Tongue and Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms’ In: Anna Kuroczycka Schultes and Helen Vallianatos (eds.), The Migrant Maternal: Birthing New Lives Abroad, Demeter Press, pp. 56-74.

• 2008 ‘Subjectivity in A.L. Kennedy's Writing’. In Regina Rudaitytė (ed.) Postmodernism and After, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, pp. 79-89.

• 2008 ‘La Métaphore de la famille chez Marie Ndiaye’. In M. L. Clément et S. van Wesemael (eds.)  Relations familiales dans les littératures française et francophone des XXe et XXIe siècles. La figure de la mère, L'Harmattan: Paris, pp. 273-283.

• 2007 ‘The Self as Other in French and British Contemporary Women’s Writing’. In: Adalgisa Giorgio and Julia Waters (eds.) Women's Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation, Legacy, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, pp. 375-389.

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Review articles

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• 2022 Review of ‘Robert Payne, Reimagining the Family. Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature’(Oxford: Peter Lang, Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing 11, 2021) 255 pp., Irish Journal of French Studies 22, pp. 156-157.

• 2022 Review of ‘Pauline Eaton, Mothers Voicing Mothering? The Representation of Motherhood in the Novels and Short Stories of Marie NDiaye’ (Oxford: Peter Lang, Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing 10, 2021) 255 pp., Irish Journal of French Studies 22, pp. 156-157.

• 2015 ‘Steponavičiūtė, Ieva. Texts at Play. The Ludic Aspects of Karen Blixen’s Writing, Scandinavistica Vilnensis 3, Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2011’. Literatūra, 57 (4), pp. 119-121.

• 2014 Review of 'Davoliūtė, V. and Balkelis, T., Maps of Memory. Trauma, Identity, and Exile in Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States, Vilnius: Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, 2012'. Lituanus, 60:1, pp. 97-101.

• 2013 Review of 'Kvietkauskas, M., ed., Transitions of Lithuanian Postmodernism. Lithuanian Literature in the Post-Soviet Period, Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2011'. Lituanus, 59:2, pp. 70-75

RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

Research grants, fellowships and scholarships

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• 2021 Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). Awarded for Salt Babies: Narrating Maternity in Russian and Comparative Literature, Co-Investigator [£42 162.93]

• 2020 H2020-WIDESPREAD-05-2020 – Twinning. Awarded for MotherNet, Developing a New Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood [€898,178.75]

• 2018 Maynooth University Publication Fund Award. Awarded for the book Portrait of a (Working) Mother [€1800]

• 2017 Maynooth University Conference and Workshop Fund. Awarded for the Motherhood, Mobility, Migration Symposium [€1500]

• 2016-2018 Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship. Awarded for post-doctoral research project “Motherhood and Migration: Between Languages, Cultures and Identities” [€87,140.00]

• 2013-2015 Lithuanian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship. Awarded for post-doctoral research project “Motherhood in Migration” [€39,605.75]

• 2015 Lithuanian Research Council. Awarded for travel to the international conference Motherhood and Culture [€450]

• 2014 University of London, UK. Non-stipendiary Visiting Fellowship

• 2006 Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation. Awarded for doctoral research

• 2005 School of Advanced Study UNESCO Fellowship. Awarded for doctoral research at Cambridge University [€5,000]

• 2003-2004 French Government Scholarship. Awarded for M.A. studies at Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle [€8,437]

• 2000-2001 Open Society Institute and Chevening Scholarship Awarded for MPhil studies at Cambridge University [£5,672 maintenance + fees]

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Supervision

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• I am currently supervising Jonė Šulcaitė-Brollo's PhD thesis on "Reflection of Sexual Violence in Contemporary Lithaunian, French and British Women's Writing" and Eglė Viskantaitė's MA thesis on "The Interssecion of Gender and Dissability in Gabrielės Petkevičaitė's Bitė's Work".

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Research projects

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• 2016-2018 “Motherhood and Migration: Between Languages, Cultures and Identities” 

• 2013-2015 “Mothergood in Migration” 

• 2013-2018 Portrait of a (Working Mother)  with Marina Cavazza

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Conferences and workshops organised

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• 2021 International conference„Difficult Authors“, Vilnius University (member of organising committee)

• 2021 International conferenceRomain Gary et André Malraux: dans leur Temps et dans le nôtre, Vilnius University (member of organising committee)

• 2020 International conference La carte dans la  littérature of the conference cycle INSPIRATIONS, Bialystok University (member of organising committee)

• 2018 International two-day Symposium “Motherhood, Mobility, Migration”, Maynooth University 

• 2016 with Dr Kate Averis (University of London Institute in Paris) International Contemporary Women’s Writing in French (CWWF) network conference ‘Overstepping the Boundaries / Transgresser les limites: 21st-Century Women’s Writing in French’, University of London.

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Evaluation/expertise

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• 2018- Member of the Board & Programme Co-director. International Literature Festival “Vilnius Pages” http://www.vilniauslapai.lt/en/

• 2019/2020 European Commission. Expert for H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020 and H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2020 schemes

• 2019 Member of MA defence committee. Vilnius University, Institute of English, Romance and Classical Studies

• 2018/19 Literature Lithuanian Council for Culture. Expert for programmes „Literature“, “Humanities Publishing” and „Individual and Education Grants for Literature“ 

• 2019 Member of the Foreign Languages Development Group. National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (Ireland)

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Research based exhibition Portrait of a (Working) Mother (with Marina Cavazza)

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• 2021 Lithuanian National Martynas Mažvydas Library and the library network of Lithuanian Library Association

• 2020 ETH, Zurich

• 2019 Colonnades, World Labour Organization, Geneva

• 2019Galleria Xenia, Italian Culture Institute, Budapest

• 2018 UNECE Regional Conference on ICPD+25 « Enabling Choices: Population Dynamics and Sustainable Development“, Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva

• 2018 Passerelle, Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva

• 2018 Illuminations Gallery, Maynooth University, Maynooth

• 2017 World Trade Organisation, Geneva 

INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS

Modules

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• Contemporary Motherhood and Fatherhood (ENG) BUS BA
• Contemporary French Women’s Writing (FR) BA
• Literature and Migration  (FR) BA
• Introduction to French Cinema (FR) BA
• Quebec Migrant Writing (FR) BA

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I am interested supervising MAs and PhDs in the fields of motherhood, women’s writing, mobility, migration and literary translanguaging.