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 and 21st Centuries |
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| PhD STUDENTS |
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| Aušra Kundrotaitė | ||
| Augustas Sireikis | ||
Department of Lithuanian Literature
Drama Theory
20th century modern and contemporary 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 | Literature of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Reformation and Counter-Reformation history Lithuania-Italy in the 16-17th Centuries Early Modern Intellectual History |
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| Prof. Dr Brigita Speičytė (head of the department) |
Lithuanian literature of the 19th century Multilingual Lithuanian literature Anthropology of literature |
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| ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS | ||
| Assoc. Prof. Dr Dalia Čiočytė | Modelling of classical Lithuanian literature Christian contexts of literature Teology of literature, Philosophy of literature Literary theory |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Rimantas Kmita | Lithuanian literature of the Soviet era Sociology of literature Creative Writing |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Darius Kuolys | Literature of the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania History of Lithuanian literature Cultural history Intellectual history History of conciousness |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Audinga Peluritytė-Tikuišienė | Lithuanian literature and contexts of 20th and 21st centuries Modern literature of Central and Eastern Europe Comparative studies and intermediate literature studies Theories of modern and postmodern art |
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| ASSISTANT PROFESSORS | ||
| Dr Neringa Klišienė | Modern and contemporary Lithuanian and foreign drama Drama Theory 20th century modern and contemporary Lithuanian literature |
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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 | 20th-century Lithuanian literature and literature of the Soviet Period The sociology of literature Contemporary literature Textual scholarship Children’s literature |
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| Dr Regimantas Tamošaitis | Theory, criticism, and history of Lithuanian literature of 20th century Eastern and Western philosophy Cultural theory Myth theory |
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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 | Foreign language (English for Specific Purposes) research Competencies development in translation studies University didactics (teaching, learning and assessment in HE) Innovative study methods in HE Paradigmatic changes in adult teaching and learning |
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| Prof. Dr Jonė Grigaliūnienė | Corpus Linguistics Corpus Translation Studies Learner Language Research Philosophy of Language Political Discourse Semantics |
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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 | Localisation-Lithuanisation of Software Use of machine translation in software localisation Translation history research Didactics and pedagogy in Translation Studies |
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| RESEARCHERS | ||
| Dr Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė | Dante Early Italian lyric poetry Visions and dreams in medieval Italian literature and culture Cognitive literary studies Translation studies |
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| Dr Artūras Ratkus | Historical linguistics Morphology, morphosyntax Syntax Germanic linguistics History of the English language Translation theory and practice |
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| ASSISTANT PROFESSORS | ||
| Dr Dalia Mankauskienė | Interpreting Translation as an interlingual and intercultural communication activity Translation project management Computer-assisted translation technologies |
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| Dr Rimas Užgiris | Translation of Poetry Translation of Modern Lithuanian Literature (into English) Post-colonial Literature (USA and Lithuania) |
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| Dr. Deimantė Veličkienė | Literary translation Poetry translation The problem of equivalence in translation William Shakespeare translations |
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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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| Prof. Dr Agnė Narušytė | ||
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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) |
Theory of Comparative Literature Central and East European Literature Literary Urban Studies Feminist literary Criticism Culture of Laughter (Neo)Baroque |
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| Dr Dovilė Kuzminskaitė | Latin American literature of 20th and 21st centuries Contemporary literature of Spanish speaking countries Women’s literature Comparative literature, translation |
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| Dr María Sebastià Sáez | Classical Tradition / Classical Reception Comparative Literature Theater Gender Studies |
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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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