Ieva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

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• Texts at Play: The Ludic Aspect of Karen Blixen's Writings. Vilnius: VUP, 2011. Included into Web of Science Master Book List: ISBN: 978-9955-634-80-5.

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Edited volumes

• Shaping the rings of the Scandinavian fellowship: festschrift in honour of Ērika Sausverde. Edited by Ieva Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė ir Loreta Vaicekauskienė, ser.Scandinavistica Vilnensis, 14. Vilnius: VUP, 2019.

• Krantai (special issue dedicated to Iceland), 2019 ,2.

• Snorri Sturluson. Edda. Translated from Old Icelandic by Rasa Ruseckienė, volume editor Ieva Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė, ser. Scandinavistica Vilnensis, 11. Vilnius: Akademinė leidyba, 2017.

• Fun and puzzles in modern Scandinavian studies: collection of articles. Edited by Ērika Sausverde, Ieva Steponavičiūtė, ser.Scandinavistica Vilnensis, 9. Vilnius: VUP, 2014. 

• Approaching the Viking Age: proceedings of the International Conference on Old Norse literature, mythology, culture, social life and language, 11-13 October 2007, Vilnius. Edited by Ērika Sausverde, Ieva Steponavičiūtė, Scandinavistica Vilnensis, 2. Vilnius: VUP, 2009.  

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Scholarly articles and book chapters

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• Algirdas Julius Greimas. Trečiosios semiotinės revoliucijos link. Kalbina Per Aage Brandt (1983) [scholarly translation], in Algirdas Julius Greimas. Pokalbiai, sudarė Arūnas Sverdiolas. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2022, p. 235-241.

• Algirdas Julius Greimas. Tegyvuoja grožis! Kalbina Frederik Stjernfelt (1990) [scholarly translation], in Algirdas Julius Greimas. Pokalbiai, sudarė Arūnas Sverdiolas. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2022, p. 519-524.

• Åge Meyer Benedictsen and the importance of cultural diplomacy, in Denmark and Lithuania through 100 years of bilateral relations: from neighbours to allies, eds. N. B. Poulsen and H. Brask. Vilnius: The Royal Danish Embassy, 2021. p. 21-40.

• [together with Jacob Bøggild ir Ieva Toleikyte]. Guard Always Your Honor: “Ehrengard,” Karen Blixen's Last Tale, Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 93, No. 3, Fall 2021, pp. 303-328, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/scanstud.93.3.0303

• [together with Rima Palubinskiene]. Fra tvangs- til lystlæsning i faget dansk: Børns oplevelser af en litterær app, in Aktualitet - Litteratur, Kultur og Medier, Vol. 15, Nr. 1, 2021.

• Dreaming the Hammer Back: On Teodoras Bieliackinas’s Translation of Þrymskviða, Shaping the Rings of the Scandinavian Fellowship: Festschrift in Honour of Ērika Sausverde, ser. Scandinavistica Vilnensis, Vol. 14, eds. I. Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė and L. Vaicekauskienė, Vilnius: Vilnius University Publishing, 2019, p. 61-85.

• [together with Loreta Vaicekauskiene]. Ērika Sausverde and her Scandinavian Rings, in Shaping the Rings of the Scandinavian Fellowship: Festschrift in Honour of Ērika Sausverde, ser. Scandinavistica Vilnensis, vol. 14 (May), eds. I. Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė and L. Vaicekauskienė, Vilnius: Vilnius University Publishing, 2019, p. 7-13.

• Teodoras Bieliackinas apie islandų literatūrą, Krantai, Vol. 2, 2019, p. 10-17.

• Apie ,,Gislio sagą”, Krantai, Nr. 2, 2019, p. 22-23.

• Светлана Ивановна Неделяева-Степонавичене (1936), У истоков российской скандинавистики: портреты филологов и переводчиков, сост. Е. Дорофеевa, Санкт-Петербург: Коло, 2018, p. 257-265.

• Thinking the other’s local in global terms – Åge Meyer Benedictsen (1866–1927) and his book on Lithuania, Transit - 'Norden' och 'Europa, ser. Tijdschrift voor Skandinavistiek, Groningen: Groningen University Publishing, Vol 36, Nr 2, 2018, p. 250-260.

• Плавучий символ: "Бури" Карен Бликсен как метапроза, ser. Скандинавская филология, 2016, Санкт-Петербург:  Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет, Vol. 14 (1), p. 102-114.

• Fantazuoti miestą: Radiant Copenhagen projektas, Kultūros barai, 2017, Vol. 2, p. 43-45.

• The author ransoming the reader or vice versa? The case of Karen Blixen, Interlitteraria, Tartu: Tartu University Publishing, 2016, Vol. 21 (1), p. 107-116.

• Precious play in Morten Søndergaard’s “Ordapotek”, Fun and Puzzles of Modern Scandinavian Studies, ser. Scandinavistica Vilnensis, Vol. 9, eds. E. Sausverde and I. Steponavičiūtė, Vilnius: Vilnius University Publishing, 2014.

• Social fraud as an aesthetic game in Dag Solstad’s Book 18, Novel 11, Literature, folklore, arts: "Literature and law": Articles from the international association for Scandinavian studies (IASS) 29th conference in Riga and Daugavpils 2012, ser. Latvijas universitātes raksti, Vol. 799, Riga: Latvijas universitāte, 2014, p. 218-226.
• Apie meilę Islandijai, "Sielos krantus" ir kitus apreiškimus, Kultūros barai, 2014, Vol. 2, p. 48-56.

• Politics at the service of aesthetics. The case of Karen Blixen (with focus on her essay “On modern marriage and other observations”). NORLIT 2011, Roskilde University, 2011.

• Jurga Ivanauskaite – en havfrue i hekseham, Apparatur, 2010, Vol. 20, p. 29-31.

• Story as the main dish: on some transcreative mechanisms in Karen Blixen’s “Babette’s Feast”, IASS 2010: Översättning – adaption, interpretation, transformation: Proceedings from the 28th Study Conference of IASS, Lund 3–7 August 2010.

• Is there a narrator in this drama? On transpositions of the narrative structure of the novel Naustet onto the play Vakkert by Jon Fosse, Nordisk drama: fornyelser og transgresjoner = Nordic drama: renewal and transgression: foredrag fra den 27. studiekonference i International association for Scandinavian studies, Gdansk: Fundacja rozwoju Uniwerytetu Gdanskiego, 2010, p. 167-174.

• The game of piquet in “Tales of Two Old Gentlemen” by Karen Blixen, Studi nordici, Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2009, Vol. 16, p. 45-51.

• Saga reflections in Karen Blixen's texts (with focus on "Grjotgard Ålvesøn og Aud"), Approaching the Viking Age, ser. Scandinavistica Vilnensis, Vol. 2, Vilnius: Vilnius University Publishing, 2009, p. 163-178.

• The poetics of art as a game in Karen Blixen's essay "On modern marriage and other observations", Acta litteraria comparativa, Vilnius: LEU, 2006, Vol. 2, p. 17-27.

• Karen Blixen: en skæbne som en sang. Nogle tanker efter udgivelsen af første litauiske oversættelser af Karen Blixen”, Litteratur og magt. Nordisk-baltisk litterært symposium (foredragssamling), ed. by Leon Nikulin, Viby: Diapason, 2000, p. 29-37.

• Litauens første bekendtskab med Peter Høeg, Litteratur og magt. Nordisk-baltisk litterært symposium (foredragssamling), ed. by Leon Nikulin, Viby: Diapason, 2000, p. 38-39.

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Other publications

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• Apsaugokime dangų virš Ukrainos, arba Hanso Christiano Anderseno pasaka apie piktąjį princą, 15min, 2022-03-05.

• Kertant sienas. Vakaras su rašytoju Jonas Hassen Khemiri. Vilniaus lapai, 2021-11-11.

• Gelbėtojas iš Islandijos. Interviu su Islandijos prezidentu Guðni Th. Jóhannessonu – kol juo dar nebuvo, 2021-02-16. 

• Islandija ir Lietuva nepriklausomybių kryžkelėse, 2021-02-11.

• Karen Blixen. Baltasis lapas (vertimas), Literatūra ir menas, 2020-11-06.

• Dieviškuoju menu yra ir liks istorija: Karen Blixen ir jos „Baltasis lapas“, Literatūra ir menas, 2020-11-06.

• Kim Leine: „Gyvenimą pavertęs romanu pajutau, kad jį kontroliuoju” (interviu), Literatūra ir menas, 2020-05-08. 

• Teodoras Bieliackinas: mes visi sugrįšime į mūsų Lietuvą, 15min.,2018-02-15.

• Emmi Itäranta: „Esu idealistė iki kaulų smegenų“ (interviu), Literatūra ir menas, 2018-01-12.

• Jørgen Leth. Baronas Kriminelis (vertimas), Literatūra ir menas, 2018-01-26.

• Profesorius Peras Thomas Andersenas: „Norvegijos mokykla nėra propagandos mašina“ (interviu), 15min., 2017-11.

• Jørgen Leth. aš pasirengęs, (vertimas), Literatūra ir menas, 2017-10-20.

• Jørgen Leth. Antropologas Bronislawas Malinowskis, (vertimas),Literatūra ir menas, 2017-10-20.

• Johannes V. Jensen. Fudzijama (vertimas), Literatūra ir menas, 2017-05-19.

• Skandinaviškoji SMS novelė – kelias į Nobelį? Literatūra ir menas, 2016-10-21.

• Jurga Zabukaite. Emotional Documents: A conversation about gaming, play and a virtual institution with Jan Bäcklund and Ieva Steponavičiūtė. Cahiers du post-diplôme Document et art contemporain 2011 / 2012. Angoulême etPoitiers: ÉESI (École européenne supérieure de l’image/ European School of Visual Arts), 2012, p.53-65.

• Beveik detektyvinė Astridos Lindgren knygų apie seklį Kalį vertimų istorija, Literatūra ir menas, 2008-05-16.

• Kur išskrido Jenseno žąsys?: apie danų literatūrą ir Johanneso V. Jenseno romano Karaliaus pražūtis lietuvišką vertimą, Literatūra ir menas, 2007-03-16.

RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

Research projects

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• Research project “Lithuanian exile in Iceland: Explorations of Teodoras Bieliackinas’s (1907–1947) creative legacy”, carried out in 2018-2021 under the National Lithuanian Studies Development Programme for 2016–2024.

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Contributions to international conferences

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• Introduction into a discussion based on Sondrup m.fl. (red.): Nordic Literature: A Comparative History (2017), Arbeitskreis "Skandinavistikkens steder og geografier", Arbeitstagung der Skandinavistik (ATDS2022), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 6–8 September, 2022.

• Panel discussion "Baltic-Nordic Encounters in the Wake of 1989: Lithuanian Writer and Playwright Marius Ivaškevičius", ReNew 5th Nordic Challenges Conference Nordic Neighbourhoods: Affinity and Distinction in the Baltic Sea Region and Beyond, Södertörn University, 1–3 June, 2022.

• Šiaurietiškas Madagaskaras. Lietuvos garbės konsulatas Islandijoje 1945 metais: alternatyvi ir tikra istorija, Skandinavistikos studentų konferencija, 2022 04 26.

• Writing back with loving vengeance. The images of Scandinavia and narrative self-image in Marius Ivaškevičius’s essays My Scandinavia, IVe congrès de l'Association pour les études nordiques Entre Scandinavie et Baltique orientale,Inalco, Pôle des langues et civilisations, 18–20 November, 2021.

• Panel discussion "The Interwar Period,"The Anniversary Conference to mark 100 years of diplomatic relations between Lithuania and Denmark: From Neighbours to Allies. Danish Royal Embassy, Vilnius University, October 1, 2021.

• A Lithuanian colony in Iceland during WWII: a microhistory, International Association for Scandinavian Studies 33d Study Conference Memory Culture in Scandinavian Studies, Vilnius University, August 3–6, 2021.

• A Lithuanian honorary consulate in Iceland in the mid. 20th century – an alternative and true history, ReThinkMulti Kulti 2021: Multiculturalism, multilingualism and cultural diplomacy in Scandinavia and Baltic Sea Region. The 12th international conference on Baltic and Nordic studies, Târgu Mureș, Romania, May 27–28, 2021.

• Mount Copenhagen“ – Danish megalomania or cosmic conscience? Scandinavian Exceptionalisms, 32nd. IASS conference, Copenhagen University, August 7–10, 2018.

• Teodoras Bieliackinas: Spreading a popular message through Old Norse poetry. Poetry and Populism, a symposium, Georg August University, Göttingen, July 12–14, 2018.

• The first Lithuanian translation of Þrymskviða. 25 Years of Scandinavian Studies at Vilnius University, a symposium, Vilnius University, May 25, 2017.

• Thinking the Others Local in Global Terms: Aage Meyer Benedictsen (1866 – 1927) and Teodoras Bieliackinas (1907-1947) as Two Historical Examples”. Transit ´Norden´ och ´Europa´, IASS Congress Groningen, August 9–13, 2016.

• The missing final piece: the character of Malli Ross in the context of Karen Blixen's concept of art as play. Inter Artes, 30thIASS conference, Kristiansand, August 5–9, 2014.

• The Author Ransoming the Reader or Vice Versa? The Case of Karen Blixen. 103rd annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS), University of California, Berkeley, May 2–4, 2013.

• Social fraud as an existential experiment in Dag Solstad’s Ellevte roman, bok atten (1992). Literature and Law, 29th IASS conference, Ryga-Daugavpils, August 7–11, 2012.

• Precious play in Morten Søndergaard's Ordapotek. Feast, play and puzzles in Scandinavian Studies, The 20th Anniversary Conference of the Centre of Scandinavian Studies, Vilnius University, May 10–12, 2012.

• Ludere necesse est: leg og spil hos Karen Blixen. Karen Blixen i det 21. århundrede, Københavns universitet, September 5–7, 2012.

• Politics at the service of aesthetics. The case of Karen Blixen. Literature and Politics, NorLit conference, Roskilde University, August 4–6, 2011.

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Other

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• Board member of the International Association for Scandinavian Studies (IASS); [President of IASS in 2018-2021]
• Board member of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM)
• Member of the international researchers’ network New Geographies of Scandinavian Studies funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research; 
• Member of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies (SASS) 
• Expert at Research Council of Lithuania.