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Assistant Professor
Address: Universiteto 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Office hours: by email
Fields of research
- Literatures in English (British and American)
Courses taught
- History of the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Century English Literature
- History of the Twentieth Century English Literature
- English literature seminar (Fictional Texts, Theoretical Models, Figurative Language) with a term paper
- William Shakespeare seminar
- Literature and Food
- English Novel: from Modernism to Postpostmodernism
- BA thesis writing seminar
- Academic reading
PUBLICATIONS
Vilnius University Publications Database
Monographs
- Bartkuvienė L. 2017. (In)visible Presences: An Epistemological Aspect of Virginia Woolf's Aesthetics. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. ISBN 978-609-459-822-7.
Articles
- Bartkuvienė L., 2019. Home: The Sacred and the Profane in John McGahern’s Novel That They May Face the Rising Sun. Literatūra, Vol. 61 No 4.
- Bartkuvienė, L. "I Mourn Thee Now": Nostalgia in John Banville’s novel The Sea. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. P. 81-102.
Translations (into Lithuanian)
- James S. Coleman, Socialinės teorijos pagrindai, Vilnius: Margi raštai, 2005. Vertė: Zita Bareikytė, Linara Bartkuvienė, Vida Bėkštienė, Linas Čekanavičius, Jonas Čičinskas, Ainė Ramonaitė, Darius Žėruolis.
- Jan Eric Lane, Viešasis sektorius, Vilnius: Margi raštai, 2005. Vertė: Linara Bartkuvienė, Jonas Čičinskas, Birutė Voverienė.
RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
PhD dissertation
- Completed her studies in the Romance-Germanic Languages and Literature programme at the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University. Completed diploma studies in English literature, literary theory, and academic writing at the University of Oxford (St. Hilda’s College) (Great Britain). Ph.D. in English Literature (Vilnius University). Thesis “Virginia Woolf’s Literary Aesthetics: The Epistemological Aspect” was defended in 2012.
Projects
- MotherNet
- „Aukštųjų mokyklų tinklo optimizavimas ir studijų kokybės gerinimas Šiaulių universitetą prijungiant prie Vilniaus universiteto.” Dalyviai: Vilniaus universitetas, Šiaulių akademija, Dublin College University, Airija (2020 -2022)
Participation in seminars and (online) workshops
- “Student oriented teaching: the meaning and importance of assessment and active learning". 2022-12-08. The University of Bergen.
- “Welcome to campus – how Higher Education institutions can create an inclusive environment for refugees and students with a migration background”. April 5th and 6th, 2022. European University Foundation: www.uni-foundation.eu
- Online Workshop “Inclusive teaching and diversity”: https://uni-foundation.eu/ 2022.06.04.
- Online Workshop “Interactive Skills Practice in the English Language Classroom“: Part 1 and Part 2. Leipzig University in the framework of the European University Alliance Arqus. 2021.11.03
- Online Workshop “Gender and Diversity Sensitive Didactics for Language Teachers”. University of Graz (Austria), Arqus. 2021.10.15.
- Online Workshop "Who got it wrong? Me or the students? – Analysing the quality of a test using (very) simple statistics". Leipzig University in the framework of the European University Alliance Arqus. 2021.11.15.
- Online Workshop “Exploring Personal and Cultural Values and Conflict Styles”; University of Graz (Austria), Arqus. 2021.12.17.
- Research visits: The University of London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and University of Oxford (St. Peter’s College) (Great Britain). 1995-96.
Conferences
- Bartkuvienė, L. “Milk and Memory in Nora Ikstena’s Novel Soviet Milk”. “White Ink, Red Flag: Expressing Maternity in Eastern European Culture”, The Devon and Exeter Institution, 2022.07. 09, Anglija.
- Bartkuvienė, L., Talk title: “Far from Motherhood, far from the Mother, far from the Motherland in Laura Esther Wolfson’s For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors”. “Motherhood and Work”, Maynooth, Airija. 2021-06-24-25
- Bartkuvienė, L. Talk title: “Virginia Woolf and the Great War. Shell Shock: who is there to give an account of oneself?” Lyon, Prancūzija. 2021-08-30-09.03.
Academic expertise
- Reviewer of the collection of articles Freedom and Control in/of Children’s Literature, (ed.. Kęstutis Urba), Vilnius: Vilniaus universitetas, 2013.
- Reviewer of Lithuanian proverbs in the Dictionary of European Proverbs (ed. .Emanuel Strauss), London, New York: Routledge, 1998.
Membership
- Head of English Philology and English Studies Programme Committee
- Chair of the Study Board of the Faculty of Philology
- President of Lithuanian Association of University Teachers of English
- Member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English)
- Member of alumnae of Oxford University (St.Hilda‘s College)
- Member of the Cambridge and Oxford Society in Lithuania
- Member of Editorial Board of “Journalistic Research“ of VU Faculty of Communication (since 2008 – till now)
Dissemination of research and studies
- 147 articles