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Department of Baltic Studies

 Fields of researchContacts
Gustaw Ferdynand Juzala-Deprati (Assoc. Prof. habil. Dr) Etnomusicology and folkloristics of Baltics
Polish traditional music and folklore
Carlos Garcia Fernandez (Lecturer) Lithuanian–Spain historical connections
Akin Gürbüz (Senior lecturer, Dr) Turkish language  
Gina Holvoet (Senior researcher, Dr) History of Bible translation
History of Bible translation into Lithuanian
Old Lithuanian writings
Linguistic analysis of Old Lithuanian texts
History of reformation
Birutė Jasiūnaitė (Prof. Dr (HP)) Etnolinguistics
Dialectology
Giedrė Junčytė (Lecturer) Morphology
Syntax
Jorge López Parreño (Lecturer)    
Birutė Kabašinskaitė (Assoc. Prof. Dr) History of written Lithuanian
History of Lithuanian words
Ernesta Kazakėnaitė (Assist. Prof. Dr) Latvian Studies
Old Writings in Baltic Languages
The History of the Bible Translation
Digital Humanities
Text Reuse
Agnė Navickaitė-Klišauskienė (Assist. Prof. Dr) Latvian studies
Word formation in Lithuanian and Latvian
Galina Miškinienė (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Scriptures of Lithuanian Tatars, written in Arabic, Old Russian and Polish
Methodology of Turkish language training
Turkish literature
Islam and Christian culture
Jurgis Pakerys (Prof. Dr) Baltic inflectional and derivational morphology and morphosyntax
Vytautas Rinkevičius (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Baltic historical linguistics (phonetics, morphology, accentology)
Old Prussian studies
Latvian studies
Lekt. Gabija Serapinienė  
Daiva Sinkevičiūtė (Prof. Dr, head of the department) Onomastics
Baltic Lexicon
Word formation
Bonifacas Stundžia (Prof. habil. Dr) Accentology of Baltic languages
Morphonology, morphology history of Baltic linguistics
Prussian studies
Miguel Karl Villanueva Svensson (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Indo-European linguistics
Balto-Slavic linguistics
Baltic linguistics
Eglė Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Latvian studies
Cognitive linguistics
Semantics
PHD STUDENTS
Sandra Lukšaitė-Ramonienė    
Diana Plachovičiūtė Etnolinguistics  
Veslava Sidaravičienė Onomastics
Sociolinguistics
Danguolė Straižytė  
NON-ACADEMIC STAFF
Rūta Valantinaitė Administrator

 

Centre for General Linguistics

 Fields of researchContacts
Alexandre Cremers (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Semantics
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Quantitative modelling
Anna Daugavet (Assist. Prof. Dr) Grammatical semantics
Syntax and morphosyntax
Areal linguistics and dialectology
Axel Holvoet (Prof. habil. Dr, head of the centre) General linguistics: linguistic theories and their interaction, theory of the linguistic sign
Historical syntax and morphosyntax
Grammatical semantics
Lithuanian grammar
Vladimir Panov (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Linguistic typology
Language contact
Morphosyntax
Discourse linguistics
Interactional linguistics
PHD STUDENTS
Yelyzaveta Drach Doctoral thesis: The Middle and the Lexicon. A Study in the Lexical Input of Middle Constructions on the Basis of Ukrainian, French and English Data, supervisor Prof. Dr Axel Holvoet  
Danguolė Kotryna Kapkan Doctoral thesis: The Grammaticalization of BE Perfects and Beyond: Case Studies in Barese, Bulgarian, and Lithuanian, supervisor Prof. Dr Axel Holvoet  
Ignas Rudaitis Doctoral thesis: Doing syntax with unordered representations: focus on recursion, supervisor Prof. Dr Axel Holvoet  

 

Centre for Polish Studies

 Fields of researchContacts
Lukasz Wojciech Cybulski (Dr, postdoctoral fellow)
Old polish literature
Textual scholarship
Genetic criticism
Manuscript studies
Teresa Dalecka (Assist. Dr) Contemporary Polish literature
Cultural life of Vilnius
Polish-Lithuanian literary and cultural relations
Miroslav Davlevič
(Assoc. Prof. Dr, head of the centre)
Grammar and lexicology of Modern Polish language
Sociolinguistics
Territorial and social differentiation of Polish language
Irena Fedorovič (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Polish literature and cultury of the 19th and 20 th century
Literary conections of Polish and Lithuanian
Ego documentary
Modern Polish language
Regina Jakubėnas (Assoc. Prof. Dr) 18th century  literature: sermons, funeral and eulogy literature, commemorative poetry, calendar publishing, advice books
The history of the first press in GDL
Activities of the Vilnius Academy in the 18th century
Kristina Rutkovska (Prof. Dr) Textual scholarship 
Cultural linguistics
Axiological linguistics
Religious literature of the GDL
Lithuanian-Polish borderland culture
Viktorija Ušinskienė (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Historical linguistics
Etymology
Comparative linguistics
Polish language in Lithuania
Manuscript tradition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Foreign languages didactics
NON-ACADEMIC STAFF
Magdalena Slavinska Administrator

 

Department of Slavic Studies

 Fields of researchContacts
Anastasija Belovodskaja (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Cognitive linguistics and cognitive aspects of the discourse of the Internet
Linguistic semantics and pragmatics
Methodology of RFL
Dagnė Beržaitė (Assoc. Prof. Dr) History of Russian literature
History of critics of Russian literature
Works of F. Dostoyevsky
Russian novel
Tomas Čenys (Assist. Prof. Dr) Contemporary Russian literature of 20th and 21st century Neobaroque and postmodernism in contemporary Russian literature
Comparative studies of Russian-Western literature
Works of V. Pelevin, V. Sharov, Y. Buida
Yelyzaveta Drach (Jun. Assist. Prof., PhD student) Ukrainian language teaching methodology  
Liudmila Garbul (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Historical lexycology of Russian and Eastern Slavic languages
XVII century Polish-Russian lingtuistic contacts
Ingrida Kisieliūtė (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
New economic criticism
 
Jelena Konickaja (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Comparative grammar of Slavic and Baltic languages
Slovenian language
Phraseology
Sociolinguistics of Slavic languages
Slavic languages in Lithuania
Eleonora Lassan (Affil. Prof. habil. Dr) Cognitive linguistics
Political rhetoric
Pragmatics
Linguistics semantics
Pavel Lavrinec (Assoc. Prof. Dr, head of the department) Literary connections of Lithuania and Russia
Literary connections of Lithuania and Poland
History of Russian literature in Lithuanian
Literature of Russian exodus
Russian literature on the internet
Sociology of literature
Viktorija Makarova (Assoc. Prof. Dr)
Media Linguistics 
Discourse Analysis
Slavonic Linguistics
 
Galina Michailova (Prof. Dr) History and poetics of Russian literature of XX century
History of Russian culture and art
Avant-garde of Russia and Europe
Works of A. Achmatova
Methodology of literature studies
Valerii Panasiuk (Researcher, Dr) History of Ukrainian theatre and film  
Anna Prijemskaja (Lecturer) Russian as a foreign language teaching methodology
Kalbų testavimas Language testing
 
Julija Snežko (Assist. Prof. Dr) Poetry of Nikolay Karamzin
Poetry of Jurgis Baltrušaitis
Egodocuments
 
Valentina Stankevičiūtė (Lecturer) Methodology of RFL
Translantion theories and practice
PHD STUDENTS
Anastasija Makarova Media Linguistics
Non-academic staff
Marina Ličinskaja Administrator

 

Centre for Scandinavian Studies

 Fields of researchContacts
Rasa Baranauskienė (Assist. Prof. Dr) Old Norse literature
Medieval culture and literature
Celtic studies
Languages contacts
Runology
Translations
Ieva Bisigirskaitė (Junior research fellow) Gender studies
Motherhood studies
Eastern European studies
Gender and Language
Sociolinguistics
Alma Braškytė (Jun. Assist. Prof.) Literary translation
Theatre studies
Ramunė Čičirkaitė (Assist. Prof. Dr) Vilnius speech
Media language
Language variation
Linguistic attitudes
Ramunė Dambrauskaitė-Muralienė (Lecturer) Swedish language teaching
Satu Grünthal (Assoc. Prof. Dr)
Finnish literature
Eglė Išganaitytė (Lecturer) Foreign language didactics
Translation theory and practice
Lexicography
Eglė Jankauskaitė (Jun. Assist. Prof.) Language ideology
Internet linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Discourse theory 
Karin Karčiauskienė (Lecturer) Finnish language and culture
Svetlana Kass (Lecturer) Estonian language  
Elžbieta Kmitaitė-Kizielė (Lecturer)
(On maternity leave)
Contemporary Scandinavian literature
Children's literature
Swedish language
Jūratė Kumetaitienė (Lecturer) Modern Norwegian literature
Works of H. Ibsen
Asta Laugalienė (Assist. Prof. Dr) Scandinavian and general linguistics
Finish language and translation
Gun-Marie Margareta Larsson (Visiting Lecturer) Contemporary swedish language  
Atėnė Mendelytė (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Film theory
Film-philosophy
Media philosophy
Visual culture
Scandinavian film
Taina Mylläri (Lecturer) Finnish language
Agnė Petrauskaitė (Lecturer) Norwegian language and culture
Translation
Kristian Nikolaj Rasmussen (Lecturer) Danish language and culture
Rima Rudienė (Lecturer) Norwegian language
Contemporary Scandinavian literature
Language interpretation
Sturla Sagli (Lecturer) Norvegian language and culture
Second language acquisition
Second language didactics
Ērika Sausverde (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Scandinavian philology
Language contacts
Lexicography
Mikael Schultz Rasmussen (Jun. Assist. Prof.)

Gothic, horror and folklore literature
Narratology and reader-response criticism
“Madness” as theme, motif and narrative device

Doctoral thesis: A Transtextual Study of Gothic Elements and their Ecophilosophical Relevance in Karl Ove Knausgård's ‘The Morning Star’ Series, supervisor Assoc. Prof. Dr Ieva Seponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė

Emil Jonas Slott (Lecturer) Danish language and culture
Intercultural didactics
Birutė Spraunienė (Assist. Prof. Dr) Scandinavian and general linguistics
The grammar of modern Lithuanian
Second and foreign language acquisition
Ieva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė
(Assoc. Prof. Dr, head of centre)
Aspects of play in modern Scandinavian literature 
Intertextuality and metafiction
Karen Blixen‘s oeuvre 
Nordic-Lithuanian cultural contacts
Rūta Šileikytė-Zukienė (Jun. Assist. Prof.) Germanic philology
History of the English language
English dialectology
 
Giedrius Tamaševičius (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Sociolinguistics
Language of spoken media
Linguage ideologies
Humour and irony
Ringailė Trakymaitė (Assist. Prof. Dr) Morphosyntax
Definiteness
Language contact and areal linguistics
Grammatical categories
Daina Urbonaitė (Jun. Assist. Prof.)
Sociolinguistics
Language education policy
Translation
Loreta Vaicekauskienė (Prof. Dr) Sociolinguistics
Language attitudes and variation
Youth language
Standardization ideologies
Language planning
Global English
Vuk Vukotić  (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Language ideologies
Language policy
Discourse theory
Sociolinguistics
Márton Zsolnai (Lecturer) Hungarian as a foreign language (HFL)
Language pedagogy
Multilingualism, intercultural education
Teaching methodology
ICT in language teaching
Coursebooks and other learning materials of HFL
Learning with games
PHD STUDENTS
Eglė Voidogienė Heterogenity – loss of national identity or its inherent quality?  
Radvilė Musteikytė Doctoral thesis: The Environmental Rhetoric of Contemporary Finnish Speculative Fiction, supervisor Assoc. Prof. Dr Satu Grünthal
Mikael Schultz Rasmussen A Transtextual Study of Gothic Elements and their Ecophilosophical lRelevance in Karl Ove Knausgård‘s ‘The Morning Star Series’. Supervisor: dr. Ieva Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė  
Non-academic staff
Jolita Jurėnaitė Librarian
Liana Šimanskienė Administrator

 

Department of German Philology

 Fields of researchContacts
Diana Babušytė (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Eurolinguistics
Language Contact
Multilingualism
Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
Iris Juliane Maria Bäcker (Assist. Prof. Dr, DAAD lector) German Literature Studies
Didactics of Literature for German (as a Foreign and Second Language) Learners
Cultural Studies for German (as a Foreign and Second Language) Learners
Literary and Cultural History of Translation into German
Aleksej Burov (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Medieval German literature and language
Medieval apocalyptic literature
Travel literature
Justina Daunorienė (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Prehistory and history of German language
Old German writings
Historical multilingualism of the Baltic and heritage of German
Morphology, word formation and lexilology of German language
Dalius Jarmalavičius (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Synchronic and diachronic Word-formation
History of the Baltic and Germanic Languages
Analysis of Word-formation of Nominal Compounds in Bilingual (Manuscript) Dictionaries of the Baltic Languages
Translation Problems of Specific German Technology
Foreign Languages Teaching and CLIL Methodology
Daumantas Katinas (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Lexicology
Contrastive linguistics
German as a foreign language
Violeta Katinienė (Assist. Prof. Dr) Modern German and Lithuanian Literature, intercultural literary studies
Eglė Kontutytė (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Language for Specific Purposes
Text Linguistics
Genre Analysis
Virginija Masiulionytė (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Humour research
Phraseology
Semiotics
Semantics
Lina Plaušinaitytė (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Historical and Modern Lexicography
Multi-Word-Units
Historical Linguistics
History of Lithuanian Language in Lithuania Minor
Language and Politics
Virginija Jūratė Pukevičiūtė (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Foreign language didactics
Developing of learning to learn competence
Research methodology
Integrated subject and language learning (CLIL)
Diana Šileikaitė-Kaishauri (Assoc. Prof. Dr) Phraseology
Contrastive linguistics
Foreign language teaching and learning (DaF-Didaktik)
Academic writing
Phonetics
Skaistė Volungevičienė (Assist. Prof. Dr) Corpus linguistics
Lexical analysis
Translation studies
Vaiva Žeimantienė 
(Assoc. Prof. Dr, head of the department)
Contrastive grammar of German and Lithuanian
Syntax of German language
Morphology
PHD STUDENTS
Diana Ickovič-Zenovič  
Tomas Vytautas Kotovičius Doctoral thesis: Between familiarity and otherness: Vilnius in German-language travel journals from the 16th-21st century period, supervisor Assoc. Prof. Dr Aleksej Burov
INTERNS    
Anna Trofymovych (DAAD teaching assistant)
German as a second and foreign language teaching,
Intercultural communication
Non-academic staff
Vytautė Juonytė Administrator
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