Department of English Philology
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| PROFESSORS | ||
| Prof. Dr Almantas Samalavičius | Architectural History, Theory and Aesthetics Urban Studies History of Culture Technological Society Postcolonialism Lithuanian Literature Higher Education |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Anna Ruskan | Epistemic modality Evidentiality Academic discourse Semantics Pragmatics Corpus linguistics |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Rūta Šlapkauskaitė | Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Literatures in English Neo-Victorianism Visual Materiality |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Audronė Šolienė | Contrastive linguistics Corpus linguistics Epistemic modality Evidentiality Translation |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Justina Urbonaitė | Cognitive linguistics Metaphor research Critical discourse analysis Legal discourse Translation |
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| ASSISTANT PROFESSORS | ||
| Dr Linara Bartkuvienė | Literatures in English (British and American) | |
| Dr Grant Rosson | 19th-century American literature Literatures of space, place, and travel The history of geographic discourse Historical poetry and poetics |
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| Dr Leonard Stone | Cultural studies | |
| JUNIOR ASSISTANT PROFESSORS | ||
| Dokt. Kotryna Garanašvili | ||
| PhD student Eimantė Liubertaitė | British and American literature Philosophy Literary theory |
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| 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 |
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| PhD student Deividas Zibalas | Discourse analysis | |
| LECTURERS | ||
| Rūta Burbaitė | Translation theory and practice Comparative literature |
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| Jurga Kasteckienė | Academic Writing Academic discourse analysis ESP (business English) |
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| Jekaterina Šukalova | ||
| Joseph Timothy Tobin | ||
| PhD STUDENTS | ||
| Andrius Ledas | ||
Department of Italian Linguistics and Literature
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| ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS | ||
| Assoc. Prof. Dr Diego Ardoino (chair of the department) |
Historical Sociolinguistics |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Dainius Būrė | Literature of XIII-XVIII century Italy Comparative studies of literature Reception theory |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Novella Di Nunzio | Italian literature (XVII-XXI centuries) Literary criticism Theory of literature Comparative and translation studies |
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| RESEARCHERS | ||
| Dr Šarūnas Šavėla | Music of Antiquity Ancient philosophy Philosophy of music Stoicism |
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| ASSISTANT PROFESSORS | ||
| Dr Ekaterina Smagina | Italian Language and Literature | |
| LECTURERS | ||
| Laura Bakšytė | ||
| Danutė Butkienė | ||
| Paola Fertoli | Italian culture, art, cinema Italian language |
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| Matteo Notari | ||
| Marta Savino | ||
| Davide Trezzi | Italian language | |
| PhD STUDENTS | ||
| Julija Šabasevičiūtė | ||
Department of Classical Philology
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| PROFESSORS | ||
| Prof. Dr Habil Fatima Eloeva | Greek Literature of the Middle Ages Modern Greek Literature Comparative Literature studies Tipology of Literary standards |
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| Prof. Dr Habil Eugenija Ulčinaitė, emerita | Literature of Antiquity Latin literature of Lithuania Classical Rhetoric |
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| 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 |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Mantas Adomėnas | Presocratic philosophy Plato Ancient political thought |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Vilius Bartninkas (chair of the department) | Ancient Philosophy Ancient Political Thought Ancient Cosmology Greek Religion and Theology Plato |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Jovita Dikmonienė | Literature of Antiquity Classical dramaturgy and its reception |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr Mindaugas Strockis | Versification of Antiquity Prosody of Classical languages Lexicography of data bases |
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| 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 |
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| ASSISTANT PROFESSORS | ||
| Dr Alius Jaskelevičius | Platonic philosophy Reception of Platonic philosophy History of Ancient Greece History of Ancient Rome |
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| Dr Ramunė Markevičiūtė | ||
| 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 |
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| Dr Tomas Riklius | ||
| JUNIOR ASSISTANT PROFESSORS | ||
| PhD student Simonas Baliukonis | ||
| PhD student Dovilė Čitavičiūtė | Latin language | |
| PhD student Mantas Tamošaitis | ||
| LECTURERS | ||
| Dalia Andziulytė | Greek poetry and philosophy of Archaic period History of Classical art |
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| Jūratė Baronienė | Medical Latin and methodology of teaching specialised Latin language | |
| Paulius Garbačiauskas | Didactic poetry Hellenistic poetry Greek philosophy Platonic studies |
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| Renata Papšytė | Latin language | |
| Kristina Svarevičiūtė | Methods and theory of teaching Modern Greek as foreign language Literary relations of Byzatine Empire and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Poetry of XX century Greece |
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| Irena Štikonaitė | Methodology of teaching Latin language | |
| PhD STUDENTS | ||
| Vasarė Butkutė | ||
| Gražina Kelmelytė | ||
| Skirmantas Knieža | ||
| Elzbieta Reivytytė | ||
| Gintarė Škėmaitė | ||
Department of French Philology
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| 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 |
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| ASSISTANT PROFESSORS | ||
| Dr Ieva Balčiūnė | ||
| Dr Antanas Keturakis | Latin language | |
| Dr Vita Valiukienė | Corpus linguistics Contrastive Lithuanian and French language research |
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| JUNIOR ASSISTANT PROFESSORS | ||
| PhD student Ieva Šakelaitė | ||
| PhD student Greta Štikelytė | Memory studies Holocaust (post)memory Autobiographical literature |
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| PhD student Jonė Šulcaitė-Brollo |
Contemporary Women’s Writing 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) |
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| SENIOR LECTURERS | ||
| Dr Jūratė Navakauskienė | Contemporary French literature Lexical and textual semantics Translation theory Comparative typology of French and Lithuanian languages Artistic translation |
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| LECTURERS | ||
| Lauksvė Gulbinaitė | The problem of language in the philosophy of imagination Contemporary French language |
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| Lina Perkauskytė | French language grammar Spoken French Translation |
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| Daiva Repeikaitė-Jarmalavičienė | Linguodidactics | |
| Laurence Sylvie Pascale Lucienne Tribodet-Paré | French literature of the 20th century | |
| Marielle Brigitte Vitureau | ||