A.J. Greimas Centre for Semiotics and the Theory of Literature
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| Prof. Dr Irina Melnikova (head of the centre) |
Semiotics of Charles S. Peirce Theory and practice of intertextuality and intermediality Adaptation studies (literary fiction to screen) Narrative in literature, painting and film City in literature and film |
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| Prof. Dr Habil. Kęstutis Nastopka, emeritus | Semiotics Literary Theory Mythology Comparative literature Lithuanian literature |
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| Prof. Dr Paulius Subačius | Textual scholarship Theory of the text Theory of literature Digital humanities Lithuanian literature Church history History of nationalism |
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| Prof. Dr (HP) Arūnas Sverdiolas, emeritus | Philosophy of culture Phenomenological and hermeneutic philosophy History of Lithuanian philosophy History of hermeneutics Contemporary theory of culture |
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| ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS | ||
| Assoc. Prof. Dr Nijolė Keršytė | Narratology Semiotics Theory of cinema Modern rhetoric Poststructuralism Modern French Philosophy Theory and critics of ideology |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Jūratė Levina | Phenomenology and hermeneutics of literature Phenomenological and hermeneutic methodology of humanities Modernism in anglophone literature, especially T. S. Eliot and James Joyce |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Birutė Meržvinskytė | Literary theory Deconstruction Myth criticism Psychoanalytic criticism Modernism in literature |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Daiva Vaitkevičienė | ||
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| Dr Paulius Jevsejevas | Animal visuality Enunciation in poetry General theory of semiotics Literary theory and criticism Methods for a semiotics of space |
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| Dr Jurgita Katkuvienė | Semiotics Theories of Meaning Corporeality in the humanities Lithuanian Poetry of 20th – 21st Centuries |
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| PhD STUDENTS |
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| Aušra Kundrotaitė | ||
| Augustas Sireikis | ||
Department of Lithuanian Literature
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| Prof. Dr Habil. Viktorija Daujotytė-Pakerienė, emerita | Lithuanian literature Phenomenology |
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| Prof. Dr Mindaugas Kvietkauskas | Lithuanian literary modernism Multilingual literature of Lithuania Comparative studies of Lithuanian and East Central European modernism Jewish studies Urban cultural studies |
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| Prof. Dr (HP) Dainora Pociūtė-Abukevičienė | History of literature and culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Prussia of XVI-XVIII century The mindset of early modern period History of Christian reformation and religious confessions Religion studies Cultural ties of Italy and Lithuania |
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| Prof. Dr Brigita Speičytė (head of the department) |
Literary theory and history of literature Theory and history of culture Lithuanian culture and literature |
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| ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS | ||
| Assoc. Prof. Dr Dalia Čiočytė | Modelling of classical Lithuanian literature Christian contexts of literature Teology of literature Literary theory |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Rimantas Kmita | Creative writing | |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr Darius Kuolys | Literature of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Prussia | |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr Audinga Peluritytė-Tikuišienė | Lithuanian literature of XX–XXI century and its contexts Literature of Eastern and Central Europe Comparative and intermedial literary studies Theories of modern and postmodern art |
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| ASSISTANT PROFESSORS | ||
| Dr Neringa Klišienė | Dramaturgy of XX century Theory of the drama Lithuanian literature of XX century |
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| Dr Laura Laurušaitė | ||
| Dr Saulė Matulevičienė | Folkloristics (folklore, mythology, history and methodology of folklore) Baltic Studies Methodology of literary studies Documentary literature |
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| Dr Jurgita Raškevičiūtė-Andriukonienė | Textology Children literatur |
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| Dr Regimantas Tamošaitis | Theory, criticism, and history of Lithuanian literature of XX century Western and Eastern philosophy Cultural theory Theory of myth |
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| JUNIOR ASSISTANT PROFESSORS | ||
| PhD student Eleonora Terleckienė | ||
| PhD STUDENTS | ||
| Agnė Ambrazaitė | ||
| Aleksandra Strelcova | ||
| Gintarė Petuchovaitė-Majauskė | ||
Department of Translation Studies
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| Prof. Dr Nijolė Burkšaitienė | Studies of English for academic and specific purposes Competence development in translation studies Teaching, learning and assessment in higher education Integration of technologies in university studies Paradigm change in adults' life-long learning |
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| Prof. Dr Jonė Grigaliūnienė | Semantics Language philosophy Political discourse Corpus linguistics Language of school pupils |
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| Prof. Dr Nijolė Maskaliūnienė (head of the department) |
Theoretical and practical aspects of translation studies Lexical and syntactic semantics Lexicology Terminology and terminography |
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| ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS | ||
| Assoc. Prof. Dr Liucija Černiuvienė | Theory and history of translation Methodology of translation Strategies of translation Analysis of translations |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Dainora Maumevičienė | ||
| RESEARCHERS | ||
| Dr Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė | ||
| Dr Artūras Ratkus | History of linguistics Morphosyntax; theory of morphology Historical linguistics Theory and practice of translation |
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| ASSISTANT PROFESSORS | ||
| Dr Dalia Mankauskienė | Cultural aspects of translation Oral translation (interpretation) |
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| Dr Rimas Užgiris | ||
| Dr. Deimantė Veličkienė | ESP Literary translation |
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| JUNIOR ASSISTANT PROFESSORS |
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| PhD student Žygimantas Pekūnas | ||
| LECTURERS | ||
| Romas Dailidėnas | ||
| Alina Dailidėnaitė | Theory and practice of synchronic and consecutive interpretation | |
| Antanas Dambrauskas | ||
| Rasa Darbutaitė | Strategies of synchronic interpretation; methodics of interpretation Explicism in interpretation |
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| Diana Guogienė | Methodology of written translation | |
| Nijolė Pivorienė | ||
| Neringa Terleckaitė | ||
| Daina Valentinavičienė | Theoretical and practical aspects of translation | |
| Agnė Zolubienė | Literary translation | |
Group for Studies in Comparative Literature
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Aistė Kučinskienė | History of Lithuanian literature History of Spanish literature Theory and practice of translation |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Inga Vidugirytė-Pakerienė (head of the group) |
Romantic literature Culture of the laughter Geography and cartography of literature Literature of Vilnius |
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| Dr Dovilė Kuzminskaitė | Latin American literature of XX-XXst centuries Contemporary literature of Spanish speaking countries Women’s literature Comparative literature, translation |
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| Dr María Sebastià Sáez | Spanish Literature: the Middle Ages - the 17th century Modern Spanish Theatre Modern Spanish V/V Spanish for Specific Purposes Registers of Spanish Language |
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| LECTURERS | ||
| Ramiro Cabañes Martinez | ||
| PHD STUDENTS | ||
| Gintarė Bidlauskienė (on academic leave) |
Spatial representation in literature Vilnius in Lithuanian novel |
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