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Department of English Philology

 Fields of researchContacts
PROFESSORS
Prof. Dr Almantas Samalavičius Architectural History, Theory and Aesthetics
Urban Studies
History of Culture
Technological Society
Postcolonialism
Lithuanian Literature
Higher Education
almantas.samalavicius@flf.vu.lt
Prof. Dr Jolanta Šinkūnienė Semantics
Pragmatics
Discourse analysis
Corpus linguistics
Contrastive analysis
Computational linguistics
Evidentiality
Epistemic modality
Media discourse
Cross-linguistic, cross-disciplinary and cross-generic studies of academic discourse, EAP, ESP Research publication and reviewing processes
Research evaluation
Effective scientific discourse
Academic identity
jolanta.sinkuniene@flf.vu.lt
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Assoc. Prof. Dr Giedrė Balčytytė (chair of the department) English phonetics and phonology
English prosody
Didactic of English (as a foreign) language and alternative teaching models
Influence of music in learning English (as a foreign) language
The relationship between language and music
giedre.balcytyte@flf.vu.lt 
Assoc. Prof. Dr Davide Castiglione Stylistics
Poetics (esp. the notions of difficulty and imagery)
Empirical studies of literature 
20th  Century Anglo-American and Italian Poetry
davide.castiglione@flf.vu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr Anna Ruskan Epistemic modality
Evidentiality
Academic discourse
Semantics
Pragmatics
Corpus linguistics
anna.ruskan@flf.vu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr Rūta Šlapkauskaitė Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
Literatures in English
Neo-Victorianism
Visual Materiality
ruta.slapkauskaite@flf.vu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr Audronė Šolienė Contrastive linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Epistemic modality
Evidentiality
Translation
audrone.soliene@flf.vu.lt 
Assoc. Prof. Dr Justina Urbonaitė Cognitive linguistics
Metaphor research
Critical discourse analysis
Legal discourse
Translation
justina.urbonaite@flf.vu.lt
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Dr Linara Bartkuvienė Literatures in English (British and American) linara.bartkuviene@flf.vu.lt

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Dr Grant Rosson 19th-century American literature
Literatures of space, place, and travel
The history of geographic discourse
Historical poetry and poetics
grant.rosson@flf.vu.lt 
Dr Leonard Stone Cultural studies leonard.stone@flf.vu.lt 
JUNIOR ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Dokt. Kotryna Garanašvili   kotryna.garanasvili@flf.vu.lt
PhD student Eimantė Liubertaitė British and American literature
Philosophy
Literary theory
eimante.liubertaite@flf.vu.lt
PhD student Greta Maslauskienė Semantics
Corpus linguistics
Contrastive linguistics

Doctoral thesis: Lithuanian Spoken Academic Discourse: from Macro- to Micro- Analysis, supervisor Prof. Dr Jolanta Šinkūnienė

greta.maslauskiene@flf.vu.lt 
PhD student Deividas Zibalas Discourse analysis deividas.zibalas@flf.vu.lt
LECTURERS
Rūta Burbaitė Translation theory and practice
Comparative literature
ruta.burbaite@flf.vu.lt 
Jurga Kasteckienė Academic Writing
Academic discourse analysis
ESP (business English)
jurga.kasteckiene@flf.vu.lt
Jekaterina Šukalova   jekaterina.sukalova@flf.vu.lt 
Joseph Timothy Tobin   joseph.tobin@flf.vu.lt 
PhD STUDENTS
Andrius Ledas   andrius.ledas@flf.stud.vu.lt 

 

Department of Italian Linguistics and Literature

 Fields of researchContacts
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Assoc. Prof. Dr Diego Ardoino (chair of the department)

Historical Sociolinguistics
Old Prussian
Multimodal and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of ancient (manuscript) texts
The notions od "root" and "identity" in Historical) Linguistics
Baltic Philology
Direct and indirect linguistic data on northeastern Europe in (historical) sources of (late) antiquity and medieval times
Dialectology and Geolinguistics
Ecdoctics

diego.ardoino@flf.vu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr Dainius Būrė Literature of XIII-XVIII century Italy
Comparative studies of literature
Reception theory
dainius.bure@flf.vu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr Novella Di Nunzio Italian literature (XVII-XXI centuries)
Literary criticism
Theory of literature
Comparative and translation studies
novella.di@flf.vu.lt
RESEARCHERS
Dr Šarūnas Šavėla Music of Antiquity
Ancient philosophy
Philosophy of music
Stoicism
sarunas.savela@flf.vu.lt 
Dr Julija Šabasevičiūtė

Contrastive Lithuanian-Italian Linguistics Italian Linguistics Thesis: 'Cromonimia contrastiva lituano-italiana', supervisors: doc. dr. Diego Ardoino (University of Vilnius), prof. dr. Pietro Umberto Dini (University of Pisa)

julija.sabaseviciute@flf.vu.lt
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Dr Ekaterina Smagina Italian Language and Literature grigran@gmail.com
LECTURERS
Laura Bakšytė   laura.baksyte@flf.vu.lt 
Danutė Butkienė   danute.butkiene@flf.vu.lt 
Paola Fertoli Italian culture, art, cinema
Italian language
paola.fertoli@flf.vu.lt
Matteo Notari   matteo.notari@flf.vu.lt
Marta Savino   marta.savino@flf.vu.lt
Davide Trezzi Italian language davide.trezzi@flf.vu.lt

 

Department of Classical Philology 

 Fields of researchContacts
PROFESSORS
Prof. Dr Habil Fatima Eloeva Greek Literature of the Middle Ages
Modern Greek Literature
Comparative Literature studies
Tipology of Literary standards
fatima.eloeva@flf.vu.lt
Prof. Dr Habil Eugenija Ulčinaitė, emerita Literature of Antiquity
Latin literature of Lithuania
Classical Rhetoric
eugenija.ulcinaite@flf.vu.lt
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Assoc. Prof. Dr Vytautas Ališauskas Culture and history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Baltic mythology
Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy
Christian and Classical literature
vytautas.alisauskas@flf.vu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr Mantas Adomėnas Presocratic philosophy
Plato
Ancient political thought
mantas.adomenas@flf.vu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr Vilius Bartninkas (chair of the department) Ancient Philosophy
Ancient Political Thought
Ancient Cosmology
Greek Religion and Theology
Plato
vilius.bartninkas@flf.vu.lt 
Assoc. Prof. Dr Mintautas Čiurinskas Biographical genre
Biographistics reception in the literature of Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque
Biographistics of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Latin literature of Lithuania
Hagiographical researches
mintautas.ciurinskas@flf.vu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė Latin poetry from antiquity to the early modern period
Trends in post-classical literary development
Interaction between ancient and Christian sources
Neo-Latin Literature of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century in Grand Duchy of Lithuania: devotional, interconfessional, interdisciplinary, and intertextual aspects
ona.dilyte-ciurinskiene@flf.vu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr Jovita Dikmonienė Literature of Antiquity
Classical dramaturgy and its reception
jovita.dikmoniene@flf.vu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr Nijolė Juchnevičienė Political history of Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek historiography and historiographical theoretical discourse (Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch, Lucian et all.)
Hellenistic literature and culture
Representation of women in Classical Greek literature
History of Classical scholarship in Soviet era
nijole.juchneviciene@flf.vu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr Audronė Kučinskienė  Ancient Rhetoric
Ciceroʼs Rhetorical Theory and Practice
Lithuanization of Ancient Names
History of Translations of Ancient Literature into Lithuanian
Ancient Culture and Art
audrone.kucinskiene@flf.vu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr Mindaugas Strockis Versification of Antiquity
Prosody of Classical languages
Lexicography of data bases
mindaugas.strockis@flf.vu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr Tomas Veteikis Ancient Greek language and literature
Latin language and literature
Latin and Greek literature of Renaissance and Baroque
History of education
tomas.veteikis@flf.vu.lt
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Dr Alius Jaskelevičius Platonic philosophy
Reception of Platonic philosophy
History of Ancient Greece
History of Ancient Rome
alius.jaskelevicius@flf.vu.lt
Dr Ramunė Markevičiūtė   ramune.markeviciute@flf.vu.lt 
Dr Gintė Medzvieckaitė Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music history
Paraphrases of Latin Biblical texts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry
Early modern cultural history
Methods of teaching Latin
ginte.medzvieckaite@flf.vu.lt
Dr Tomas Riklius Baroque aesthetic philosophy
Post-Tridentine Catholic Texts
Baroque art and its history
The intersection between Mannerism and Baroque
tomas.riklius@flf.vu.lt 
JUNIOR ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
PhD student Simonas Baliukonis   simonas.baliukonis@flf.stud.vu.lt
PhD student Dovilė Čitavičiūtė Latin language dovile.citaviciute@flf.vu.lt
PhD student Mantas Tamošaitis   mantas.tamosaitis@flf.vu.lt 
LECTURERS
Dalia Andziulytė Greek poetry and philosophy of Archaic period
History of Classical art
dalia.andziulyte@flf.vu.lt
Jūratė Baronienė Medical Latin and methodology of teaching specialised Latin language jurate.baroniene@flf.vu.lt
Paulius Garbačiauskas Didactic poetry
Hellenistic poetry
Greek philosophy
Platonic studies
paulius.garbaciauskas@flf.vu.lt
Renata Papšytė Latin language renata.papsyte@flf.vu.lt
Irena Štikonaitė Methodology of teaching Latin language irena.stikonaite@flf.vu.lt
PhD STUDENTS
Vasarė Butkutė   vasare.butkute@flf.vu.lt
Laisvūnas Čekavičius   laisvunas.cekavicius@flf.stud.vu.lt
Gražina Kelmelytė   grazina.lyvens@flf.vu.lt
Skirmantas Knieža   skirmantas.knieza@flf.stud.vu.lt
Elzbieta Reivytytė   elzbieta.reivytyte@flf.stud.vu.lt 
Gintarė Škėmaitė   gintare.skemaite@flf.stud.vu.lt

 

Department of French Language, Literature and Culture

 Fields of researchContacts
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Prof. Dr. Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan (chair of the department) Motherhood Studies
Contemporary women's writing
French and francophone literature
Gender Studies
Migration and mobility
egle.kackute-hagan@flf.vu.lt
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Dr Ieva Balčiūnė   ieva.balciune@flf.vu.lt
Dr Antanas Keturakis Latin language  antanas.keturakis@flf.vu.lt
Dr Vita Valiukienė Corpus linguistics
Contrastive Lithuanian and French language research 
vita.valiukiene@flf.vu.lt
JUNIOR ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
PhD student Ieva Šakelaitė   ieva.sakelaite@flf.vu.lt
PhD student Greta Štikelytė Memory studies
Holocaust (post)memory
Autobiographical literature
greta.stikelyte@flf.vu.lt
PhD student Jonė Šulcaitė-Brollo

Contemporary Women’s Writing
Contemporary French Literature
Comparative Literature and Culture Studies
Literary Criticism in the Context of the #MeToo Movement
Gender Studies

Doctoral thesis: ‘Reflection on sexual violence in contemporary Lithuanian, French and British women’s literature and culture’, supervisor – Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan (Vilnius University)

jone.sulcaite-brollo@flf.vu.lt 
SENIOR LECTURERS
Dr Jūratė Navakauskienė Contemporary French literature
Lexical and textual semantics
Translation theory
Comparative typology of French and Lithuanian languages
Artistic translation
jurate.navakauskiene@flf.vu.lt
LECTURERS
Lauksvė Gulbinaitė The problem of language in the philosophy of imagination
Contemporary French language
lauksve.gulbinaite@flf.vu.lt
Lina Perkauskytė French language grammar
Spoken French
Translation
lina.perkauskyte@flf.vu.lt
Daiva Repeikaitė-Jarmalavičienė Linguodidactics daiva.repeikaite-jarmalaviciene@flf.vu.lt
Laurence Sylvie Pascale Lucienne Tribodet-Paré French literature of the 20th century lucienne.tribodet-pare@flf.vu.lt
Marielle Brigitte Vitureau   marielle.vitureau@flf.vu.lt
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