PUBLICATIONS

 

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Books

1. Geographic Imagination. Gogol, Vilnius: Vilnius University, 2015, 296 p. (in Russian)
2. The Culture of Laughter, Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2012, 200 p, (in Lithuanian)
3. Lithuania of Balmont, Kaunas: Santara, 2005, 156 p. (in Lithuanian)

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Articles 

1. Гетеротопия пейзажа: картографический импульс в творчестве Н. В. Гоголя [Heterotopia of Landscape: the Cartographic Impulse in the creative work of Nikolai Gogol], Literatūra 57 (5). Гетеротопии: миры, границы, повествование, 2015, 111–125.
2.  Гетеротопии: миры, границы, повествование [Heterotopias: worlds, borders, narratives] , Literatūra 57 (5). Гетеротопии: миры, границы, повествование, 2015, 11–18.
3.  Вильнюс: текст города и город текста [Vilnius: the text of the city and the city of a text], ACTA Universitatis Tallinnensis: Семиотика города. Материалы Третьих Лотмановских дней в Таллинском университете (3 – 5 июня 2011 г.), Таллин, 2014, 100–117.
4. Romantički putnik na pozadini svog vremena: o nekim aspektima nomadizma kod N. V. Gogolja [The Romantic wonder: on some aspects of the nomadism of Nikolai Gogol], Nomadizam, Zagreb: Disput, 2014, 445–456.
5. Vilnius: mapping literature - reading city text, Geocritique: Etat des lieux / Geocriticism: A Survay, Limoge: PULIM, 2014, 252 – 258.
6.  Петербургский текст русской литературы и Вильнюсский текст литовской литературы: еще раз об аналитическом потенциале концепции В. Н. Топорова [The Petersburg text of Russian literature and the Vilnius text of Lithuanian literature: once again on the analytical vista of Vladimir Toporov's koncept].  Mokslo darbai: Literatūra, 2013, nr. 55 (2): Rusistica Vilnensis, c. 7–16. ISSN 0258-0802 (pdf)
7. Novel and Satire: Discrepancies between Theory and Practice in Milan Kundera’s Work, Grotesque revisited: Grotesque and Satire in the Post/Modern Literature of Central and Easten Europe, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, 137–148.
8.  Požiūris į Rusiją Czesławo Miłoszo – „paskutinio LDK piliečio“ – eseistikoje [Attitude to Russia in essais by Czesław Miłosz - the last citizen of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania] , Czesławo Miłoszo kūryba: modernioji LDK tradicijos tąsa, Vilnius: LLTI, 2012, p. 190 – 232.
9.  «Вильна» Константина Бальмонта: русский голос в вильнюсском тексте литовской культуры [“Vilna“ of Konstantin Balmont: the Russian voice in the text of Vilnius of Lithuanian culture]. Mokslo darbai: Literatūra, 2011, nr. 53 (2): Rusistica Vilnensis, c. 17–25. ISSN 0258-0802.
10.  Гоголь и современная ему география: об одном пейзаже в «Вечерах на хуторе близ Диканьки» [Gogol and Geography of his time: on the one landscape from the book Evenings in the Farm near Dikanka]. In Двести лет Гоголя: сборник научных работ, под редакцией Василия Щукина, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2011, с. 93–103.
11. Об одном источнике гоголевской зрелищности: пейзаж Брейгеля во втором томе «Мертвых душ» [On the sources of Gogol’s visuality: the landscape of Bruegel in the second volume of the Dead Souls]. Mokslo darbai: Literatūra, 2010, nr. 52 (2): Rusistica Vilnensis, с. 20–33. ISSN 0258-0802.
12. Инга Видугирите,  «Гоголь в роли Гоголя: стратегии мемуарного письма», Гоголевский сборник, вып. 3 (5), Санкт-Петербург - Самара: ПГСГА, 2009, 295–306.
13.  «Складка» смерти в повести Н.В. Гоголя «Тарас Бульба» (к проблеме Гоголевского барокко). In In Memoriam: Иосиф Васильевич Трофимов. Sast. A. Lisovs, A. Ņeminuščijs, red. kol. V. Baranovska ... [et al.]. Daugavpils: Daugavpils Universitātes Akadēmiskais apgāds "Saule", 2009, с. 50–57. ISBN 978-9984-14-417-7.
14. Корчма в Великом Княжестве Литовским [Pub in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania]. Almanac of the Institute of comparative studies, vol. 14, iss. 14: Pub in the European culture space, Daugavpils, 2009, с. 45–58.
15. Чтение как контроль над собственным произведением: Гоголь – чтец. In Opus # 4–5: Нобелевская лекция. Чтение. Сб. статей = Nobelio premija. Skaitymas. Сост. Г. Михайлова, П. Лавринец, Н. Боткина. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2009 (Literatūra, nr. 51 (5)), с. 141–151. ISSN 0258-0802.
16. «Великая и поразительная область географии»: об источниках географических идей Н. В. Гоголя [‘The great and wonderful field of Geography‘: sources geographical ideas of Gogol]. Mokslo darbai: Literatūra, 2009, nr. 51 (2): Rusistica Vilnensis, c. 7–21. ISSN 0258-0802.
17. Гоголь в роли Гоголя: стратегии мемуарного письма [Gogol in the role of Gogol: strategies оf memoir writing]. Гоголевский сборник, вып. 3 (5), Санкт-Петербург - Самара: ПГСГА, 2009, 295–306.
18.  Н. В. Гоголь и культура Великого Княжества Литовского: к проблеме гоголевского барокко [Nikolai Gogol and culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania]. Литературна компаративiстика, вип. 3, ч. 1, Киïв: Стилос, 2008, с. 203–217.
19.  Складка пейзажа: к проблеме барокко в творчестве Н. В. Гоголя [The Fold of the landscape: on the Baroque in Nikolai Gogol's creative work]. Mokslo darbai: Literatūra, 2008, nr. 50 (2): Rusistica Vilnensis, 18–30. ISSN 0258-0802.
20. Поэтическая функция "языка тела" (случай Н.В. Гоголя) [The poetic function of "body language" (the case of Nikolai Gogol)], Филологические чтения: 2007, Daugavpils: Saule, 2008, p. 51–61.
21. Пространство храма в Размышлениях о Божественной Литургии Н. В. Гоголя [The Space of a Tample in "Meditations on the Divine Liturgy" by Nikolai Gogol],  Almanac of the Institute of comparative studies. vol 13, iss. 13: Templis Eiropas kultūrā, Daugavpils: Saule, 2007, p. 31–41.
22.  Украинский Гоголь [Ukrainian Gogol], Literatūra, 48 (2), 2006, p. 56–65.
23. Католический и православный храм в текстах Н. В. Гоголя (образ и феномен) [Catholic and Orthodox temple in the work of Nikolai Gogol (image and phenomenon)], Dziedzictwo Chrześcijańskiego Wschodu i Zachodu: Między pamięcią a oczekiwaniem, Częstochowa, 2006, 291–300.
24. Театральный код в Размышлениях о Божественной Литургии Н. В. Гоголя [The code of a theatre in the "Meditations on the Divine Liturgy" by Nikolai Gogol], Гоголевский сборник 2 (4), Санкт-Петербург; Самара, 2005, 169–180.

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Interviews

 On the Cartography of Vilnius literature with Raminta Jonikaitė (Literatūros akiračiai)

 http://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/1011468972/literaturos_akiraciai_2015-02-15_17_03?popup

http://kultura.lrytas.lt/literatura/rasytoju-apdainuotas-vilnius-keliasi-i-literaturos-zemelapius.htm

 

 

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RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

PhD dissertation

Vilnius University. Cultural Dialogue: Lithuania in the Creative Work of Konstantin Balmont. 1995. Doctor of Humanities (PhD) 

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Research projects

• 2010-2011. “The Creative Work of Czesław Miłosz: the modern development of the tradition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania”, Council of the Science of Lithuania Republic, a research fellow.
• 2011- 2015. “Geography of Literature: textual territories and imaginative maps”, VP1-3.1-ŠMM-07-V Support to Research of Scientists and Other Researchers (Global Grant), the leader.

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Internships

• Charles University in Prague (1 month) 1997
• Plzen, West Bohemia University (1 month) 1999
• Oxford University, Christ Church College (1 month) 1999

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Oral presentations

1. International Conference „Readings of Nikolai Gogol“, Moskow. 2008 04 01-04. Title: "Gogol in the role of Gogol".
2. International Conference „Time of Gogol“, Krakow (Poland). 2009 04 18-24. Title: "The time of Creation and the landscape in the work of Nikolai Gogol".
3. Vth Conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics (IALS) „The Semantics of Landscapes“, Genoa. 2010 07 25-28. Title: The Landscape of Nikolai Gogol: Cartography and Painting in Literature.
4. International Conference „Readings of Nikolai Gogol“, The memorial museum „House of Gogol“, Moscow. 2011 04 01-03. Title: “Childhood paradise” and the geographic imagination of a writer: Nikolai Gogol and Czesław Miłosz.
5. International Conference „Juri Lotman Days at Tallinn University III: Urban Semiotics. City as a Cultural-Historical Phenomenon” (Tallinn University, Estonia). 2011 06 03-05. Title: The text of Vilnius of Lithuanian Culture.
6. International Scientific Conference „Places and time of Czesław Miłosz“, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius University. 2011 06 27-28. Title: Czesław Miłosz and the Idea of Central Europe.
7. International scientific conference “Satire and grotiesque in post/modern literature of East Central Europe”, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius. 2011 11 24-25. Title: Satire and Laughter: Experiments of Milan Kundera.
8. International conference „Nomadism“, Zagreb University. 2012 04 26-05 02. Title: Voyages in dreams and reality: from geographic maps to visions of Bruegel.
9.  ASEEES 44th Convention, New Orleans, USA. 2012 11 15-18. Title: “Lithuanian Vilnius”: between visual narratives and literary space.
10. International Scientific Conference "Vilnius::Heterotopias", Vilniaus University. 2013 09 19–21. Title: "'Other spaces' and 'other theories' on the literary map of Vilnius".
11. World Conference Esri. Vilnius, 2013 10 17–18. Title: "Cartography of Literature".
12. Лотмановский семинар = Rahvusvaheline Juri Lotmani seminar. Tartu University. 2014 02 28 – 03 02. Title: "Geographic imagination. Gogol"
13.  International Conference „Juri Lotman Days at Tallinn University V: Semiotics of Power” (Tallinn University, Estonia). 2015 06 03-05. Title: Space and power: on the geographic landscape in the work of Nikolai Gogol.

 

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Academic activities

• Member of the Commitee of the MA Study Programme of the Rusistics, Vilnius University
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the International scientific conference “Satyra ir groteskas post/modernioje Vidurio ir Rytų Europos literatūroje” (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius, 2011 11 24-25)
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the International scientific conference “Vilnius::Heterotopias” (Vilnius University, 2013 09 19-21)
• Official opponent of the Dissertation (Natalja Botkina, „Epistolinio pasakojimo struktūros ypatumai: Marinos Cvetajevos laiškai“) (2011 04 19)
• Member of the Dissertation Philology Committee of Vilnius University (Taisija Laukkonėn, Doctoral Dissertation “(Po)sovietinė rusų poezija Lietuvoje: literatūrinio elgesio strategijos” (2012 10 26) 

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INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS

Courses taught

• Laughter and Literature (MA, in Lithuanian)
• Literary Geography: on contemporary research of space (MA, in Lithuanian) 
• Russian Baroque (MA, in Russian)
• Nikolai Gogol and Russian Romanticism (MA, in Russian)
• Russian Poetry (BA, in Russian)
• Russian Drama (BA, in Russian)
• Geography of Russian Literature (BA, in Russian)
• Russian imperial culture (BA, in Russian)
• Culture of Laughter (BUS, in Lithuanian)

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