Faculty of Philology

Faculty of Philology

Sukurta: 07 June 2021

flf5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7205
E-mail:
Dean – Prof. Dr Inesa Šeškauskienė

 

 

 

STAFF

288 teachers (incl. 151 holding research degree), 15 research fellows (incl. 12 holding research degree), 36 doctoral students

INSTITUTES AND DEPARTMENTS OF THE FACULTY

Institute of Applied Linguistics
Department of Lithuanian Language
Department of Lithuanian Studies
Centre for Multilingual Studies

Institute of English, Romance and Classical Studies
Department of Classical Philology
Department of English Philology
Department of French Philology
Department of Italian Linguistics and Literature

Institute of Foreign Languages
Department of Foreign Language Teaching and Research
Department of Research of Languages for Specific Purposes
Department of Romance Linguistics
Media Linguistics Centre

Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Baltic
Department of Baltic Studies
Department of German Philology
Department of Russian Philology
Centre of General Linguistics
Centre for Polish Studies
Centre for Scandinavian Studies

Institute for Literary, Cultural and Translation Studies
Department of Lithuanian Literature
Department of Translation Studies
A.J. Greimas Centre for Semiotics and Literary Theory
Group for Studies in Comparative Literature

RESEARCH AREAS

Lithuanian Studies: Philological, Cultural and Interdisciplinary Aspects. Research and Development
Multilingual Discourses: Linguistics, Literature, Culture

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED IN 2020

M. Bogdzevič. The feelings of ANGER, FEAR and SHAME in Lithuanian from cognitive and cultural perspectives.
G. Ivanova. Musical expression in the plays by Kostas Ostrauskas.
A. Jaskelevičius. Construction of Panhellenic identity in the Greek historical discourse of the classical period.
I. Kisieliūtė. Applying strategies of the New Economic Criticism. A case of F. Dostoevsky.
J. Mandravickaitė. Linguistic characteristics of functional styles: A quantitative analysis.
G. M. Rosson. Literature and the production of geography.
I. Stasiūnaitė. On the motivated polysemy of some prepositions: from concrete to abstract senses of the Lithuanian ŽEMIAU, PO and the English BELOW, UNDER.
D. Tamulaitienė. Accentuation of Lithuanian suffixal hydronyms.

MAIN CONFERENCES ORGANISED IN 2020

The 14th international symposium Moral Competence: Its Nature, Relevance, and Education, in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy, AMU Poznan, Poland. 23–24 July 2020. http://www.conference.uki.vu.lt/ (online)

The 17th international Salos Summer School of Linguistics and Conference Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Septima Decima. Salos Manor (Rokiškis region). 26–31 July 2020. http://academiasalensis.org/images/programa-2020.pdf

International conference The Word in Language and Discourse: Construction of Meaning (Le mot dans la langue et dans le discours 3: la construction du sens) in cooperation with the University of Bialystok, Poland. 17–18 September 2020 (online).

The 20th international Baltic conference on Canadian Studies Canadian Ecologies: Thinking about Illness, Wellness, and Wellbeing. 10 October 2020 (online).

International conference Lithuanian Language in Lithuania and the World (Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Department of the Lithuanian Language). 13 November 2020. http://www.kalboskatedrosjubiliejus.flf.vu.lt/en/about-the-conference/

MAIN RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2020

Prof. Dr A. Holvoet elected member of Academia Europaea (European Academy of Sciences) for sustained academic excellence https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Holvoet_Axel

Prof. Dr A. Holvoet received Vilnius University Rector’s Science Award, December 2020

 
INSTITUTE OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

5 Universiteto, LT–01513 Vilnius
E-mail:
Director – Prof. Dr Meilutė Ramonienė

DEPARTMENT OF LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7212
http://www.flf.vu.lt/
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Vilma Zubaitienė

STAFF

Professors: Dr Habil. E. Jakaitienė (emerita), Dr V. Kardelis, Dr I. Smetonienė.
Associate professors: Dr G. Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė, Dr A. Smetona, Dr V. Zubaitienė.
Assistant professors: Dr E. Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Dr M. Smetona, Dr E. Švageris, Dr A. Valotka (part-time).
Lecturers: K. Bredelis, L. Laužikas.
Doctoral students: B. Danisienė, A. Lisauskaitė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Synchronic and diachronic Lithuanian grammar
Phonetics and phonology of standard Lithuanian and Lithuanian dialects
Morphology, lexicology, word formation, lexicography, semantics and syntax, terminology of standard Lithuanian
Rhetorics, stylistics, text analysis, academic discourse
Dialectology, general linguistics, cognitive linguistics, ethnolinguistics
Historical grammar of Lithuanian, history of written Lithuanian
Standard Lithuanian: attitudes and usage
Methodology of teaching the Lithuanian language

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by University Budget

Synchronic and Diachronic Research of Phonological, Lexical and Grammatical System of the Lithuanian Language. Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Zubaitienė. 2019–2022.

The aim is to investigate phonetics, lexis, semantics and grammar of the Lithuanian language, its systematic variability, variation and interaction, the relation of the Lithuanian vocabulary and grammar to usage, differences between spoken and written language.

Main publications:

Smetonienė, I., Smetona, M. Language in the consciousness of a Lithuanian. Lituanus. 2020, 66 (3): 41–59.

Švageris, E. Intonacijos įtaka akustinei priegaidžių raiškai: eksperimentinis latvių bendrinės kalbos tyrimas [Effect of intonation on phonetic realization of lexical tones: experimental investigation of standard Latvian]. Baltistica. 2020, 55 (1): 119–157.

National Research Projects

Discourse Markers in Lithuanian: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study (S-MIP-17-44). Assoc. Prof. Dr. J. Šinkūnienė. Participants: Assist. Prof. Dr E. Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Assist. Prof. A. Šolienė. 2017–2020.

The project is devoted to discourse markers investigated in spoken and written Lithuanian in various discourse types: journalistic, academic, fiction as well as in different periods of language development: contemporary Lithuanian, the 16th–17th centuries. The analysis displayed a rich semantic-functional and structural diversity of discourse markers, their distribution, syntactic position they occupy in a clause and its importance for meaning and function.

Main publications:

Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, E. Pabrėžiamosios dalelytės net, tiktai, gi ir juk senuosiuose XVI-XVII a. lietuvių kalbos tekstuose. Baltistica. 2020, 55 (2): 287–313.

Šinkūnienė, J. Konstrukcijos su nederinamuoju neveikiamosios rūšies dalyviu galima: diskurso žymiklio link. Darbai ir Dienos. 2020, 74: 77–96.

Šolienė, A. Lithuanian discourse markers na and nu: A glimpse at Lithuanian-English Parallel Corpus data. In: Translating and Comparing Languages: Corpus-based Insights. Selected Proceedings of the Fifth Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies Conference, ed. by S. Granger, and M. Lefer. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain. 2020, 237–255.

Projects Supported by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language

Mother. Bread. Earth. Prof. Dr I. Smetonienė. 2019–2020.

The aim of the project is to analyze the concepts MOTHER, BREAD and EARTH based on the cognitive definition method.

Main publications:

Smetonienė, I. Pojęcie wartości w litewskim językowym obrazie świata. Vertybės lietuvių ir lenkų kalbų pasaulėvaizdyje/ Wartościw językowym obrazie świata Litwinów i Polaków, ed. by K. Rutkowska. Vilnius University Press. 2020, 70–81.

Smetona, M., Smetonienė, A. Sąvokos žemė genezė. Vertybės lietuvių ir lenkų kalbų pasaulėvaizdyje/ Wartościw językowym obrazie świata Litwinów i Polaków, ed. by K. Rutkowska. Vilnius University Press. 2020, 277–286.

Research of Phrasemes in Student Writing and an Interactive Phrase Bank. Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Zubaitienė. 2017–2019.

The aim of the project is to research the usage of academic phrases in student writing in six main study areas of the first study cycle.

Main publications:

Zubaitienė, V., Gudavičienė, E., Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė, G., Plaušinaitytė, L., Volungevičienė, S. Studentų darbų fraziškumas [Formulaic Language in Students' Writing]. Vilnius University Press. 2020, 616 p.

Zubaitienė, V., Plaušinaitytė, L., Volungevičienė, S., Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė, G., Gudavičienė, E., Pribušauskaitė, J., Plaušinaitis, J. Akademinių frazių sąvadas [Academic Phrasebank]. 2020.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Institute of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (Poland)
University of Bern (Switzerland)
University of Pisa (Italy)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assist. Prof. Dr E. Jasionytė-Mikučionienė –

Assoc. Prof. G. Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė –

  • member of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, USA;
  • member of the Scandinavian Association for Language & Cognition;
  • member of the National European Language Atlas Committee;
  • member of programme and organising committee of the international conference Lithuanian Language in Lithuania and the World.

Prof. Dr V. Kardelis –

Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Smetona –

Prof. Dr I. Smetonienė –

Assoc. Prof. V. Zubaitienė –

  • editorial board member of the journal Bendrinė kalba, http://www.bendrinekalba.lt/?English;
  • editorial board member of the journal Gimtoji kalba;
  • member of the association of Academia Salensis, http://academiasalensis.org/en/about-us/structure-of-as;
  • member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt;
  • member of the Association Gesellschaft für Baltische Studien, Berlin, Germany;
  • member of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, USA;
  • member of the programme committee of the 26th international conference of Jonas Jablonskis Linguistic Diversity in the Modern World: Language Power and Prestige, http://www.jablonskio-konferencija.flf.vu.lt/en/;
  • member of the programme committee of the international conference Lithuanian Language in Lithuania and the World.

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Plaušinaitytė, L., Zubaitienė, V. Die litauische Grammatik von Christian Gottlieb Mielcke und ihr Verhältnis zum Quellentext von Ruhig. Baltische Erzähl- und Lebenswelten. Kultur-, literatur-, translations- und sprachwissenschaftliche Aspekte. Universität Tallinn, 17–19 September, 2020 (online).

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Assoc. Prof. G. Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė - expert in contest The best PhD thesis 2019
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Smetona - member of the Terminology Subcommittee of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  • Prof. Dr V. Kardelis and Assoc. Prof. V. Zubaitienė - experts of the Research Council of Lithuania
  • Prof. Dr I. Smetonienė and Prof. Dr V. Kardelis - experts of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  • Assoc. Prof. V. Zubaitienė - member of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language; http://www.vlkk.lt/struktura-ir-kontaktai/komisija/vilma-zubaitiene-doc-dr

CONSULTATIONS PROVIDED BY THE UNIT TO THE PUBLIC OR ECONOMIC ENTITIES

  • L. Laužikas and Assoc. Prof. A. Smetona - experts of the Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

 

DEPARTMENT OF LITHUANIAN STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7214
E-mail:
http://www.lsk.flf.vu.lt/
Head – Prof. Dr Loreta Vilkienė

STAFF

Professors: Dr M. Ramonienė, Dr L. Vilkienė.
Associate professor: Dr B. Stundžienė (part-time).
Assistant professors: Dr E. Gudavičienė, Dr I. Hilbig, Dr K. Jakaitė-Bulbukienė.
Teaching assistants: J. Bružaitė-Liseckienė, I. Daraškienė, E. Vaisėtaitė, A. Valančiauskienė, E. Žurauskaitė.
Lecturers: R. Bingelienė, D. Katinaitė, E. Kutanovienė (part-time), R. Migauskienė, E. Petrašiūnienė, J. Pribušauskaitė V. Stumbrienė, A. Tamošaitienė, L. Vaškevičienė.
Doctoral students: I. Daraškienė, E. Vaisėtaitė, J. Bružaitė-Liseckienė, E. Žurauskaitė, A. Teresė, A. Meškerevičiūtė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Applied linguistics:
Teaching second / foreign languages
Learning second / foreign languages
Language acquisition
Language attrition
Sociolinguistics
Discourse analysis
Language testing
Sign language

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by University Budget

Language Usage, Language Learning and Teaching. Prof. Dr M. Ramonienė. 2019–2022.

The project aims at analysis of language/dialect usage, language attitudes, language acquisition, language learning and teaching, language policy, language of diaspora, sociolinguistic situation in Lithuania, socially significant changes in the use of Lithuanian and local vernaculars, evolving levels of multilingualism. Papers as well as conference presentations for both national and international conferences were prepared.

Main publications:

Ramonienė, M. New trends of multilingualism in the Lithuanian urban space: private sphere. In: Kessler, S. and M. Pantermöller (eds.) The Social Status of Languages in Finland and Lithuania. A Plurimethodological Empirical Survey on Language Climate Change. 2020, 229–258.

Bružaitė-Liseckienė, J. Influence of sociolinguistic factors on grammatical competence of Lithuanian used by students enrolled in Russian gymnasiums. Pedagogy. 2020,  137(1): 156–175.

Miškinytė, R., Vilkienė, L. The size of the native Lithuanian vocabulary of the 11th grade students. Pedagogy. 2020, 138(2): 61–79.

Synchronic and Diachronic Research of Phonological, Lexical and Grammatical System of the Lithuanian Language. Assoc. Prof. Dr Vilma Zubaitienė. 2019–2022.

The aim of this project is to study variability, change and interaction at all levels of the Lithuanian language system: phonetics, lexicon, semantics, grammar, the relationship of Lithuanian vocabulary and grammar with usage, differences between spoken and written language.

Main publication:

Gudavičienė, E. Variation of lexical bundles. In: V. Zubaitienė, E. Gudavičienė, G. Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė, L. Plaušinaitytė, S. Volungevičienė. Formulaic Language in Students' Writing. Vilnius University Press. 2020, 363–392.

Diachronic and Asynchronous Lexicography and Metalexicography. Prof. Dr Danguolė Melnikienė. 2019–2022.

The aim of this project is to study various types of dictionaries, their history, peculiarities of lexicographical description in them, to analyze the problems related to the creation of dictionaries and to provide methodological insights for the development of new dictionaries and the improvement of existing ones; prepare and digitize bilingual dictionaries.

International Research Projects

Promoting Easy-to-Read Language for Social Inclusion (PERLSI). J. Bružaitė-Liseckienė, I. Daraškienė. 01 October 2020–01 October 2022.

The project aims at developing a comparative study of EtR ecology in project countries. All planned IOs of the project have a comparative angle, thus ensuring an innovative perspective and outputs. The international dimension of the project allows ensuring the best practice transfer acquired by the partners through other ERASMUS projects and offers a comparative angle to less spoken languages of the EU (LV, LT, SL). This strategic partnership aims at innovation and good practices to promote literacy and up-skilling through development of methodological and educational materials.

National Research Projects

Lithuanian Linguistic Attitudes and Linguistic Behaviour. 25 May 2020–31 December 2021. Dr I. Hilbig, Prof. M. Ramonienė, Dr K. Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, Dr E. Gudavičienė, Prof. L. Vilkienė.

The aim of the project is to investigate the current sociolinguistic situation in Lithuania. Primarily, the researchers seek to find out the direct linguistic attitudes of the residents of the country: attitudes towards Standard Lithuanian, its dialects, other languages, especially global English, conceptions of prestige of Lithuanian, its varieties and other languages. Also, the declared linguistic behaviour of the population will be analyzed: the linguistic repertoire, the usage of Lithuanian, Lithuanian dialects and foreign languages in different domains of life, family language policy, etc.

Lithuanian Forced Migration Diasporas in the East and their Identity: Cases of Trans-Volga and Kazakhstan. Prof. Dr L. Vilkienė. 2020–2022.

The aim of the project is to analyze the resources and practices of retaining of ethnic identity of the Lithuanian forced migrants’ diasporas in Trans-Volga and Kazakhstan through the prism of collective memory, linguistic self-awareness and language practices, as well as enculturation and socialization of target groups from social anthropology, sociology and sociolinguistic perspectives.

Contractual Research

National Agency for Education. Setting up a System for Testing Personal Key Competences (communication in the Lithuanian language). Project coordinator: E. Petrašiūnienė. 2019–2021.

The aim of the project is to prepare Lithuanian language proficiency test models that meet the requirements of the Lithuanian language proficiency level (according CEFR) and allow testing reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. This project is a part of a larger project of the National Agency for Education.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
Lithuanian Universtity of Health Sciences (Lithuania)
The Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Latvia (Latvia)
Zavod RISA, Institute RISA, Centre for General, Ffunctional and Cultural Literacy (Slovenia)
Information Collection and Dissemination Center (IKSC) (Lithuania)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

R. Bingelienė, Dr E. Gudavičienė, Dr I. Hilbig, Dr K. Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, E. Žurauskaitė –

J. Bružaitė-Liseckienė –

E. Petrašiūnienė –

J. Pribušauskaitė –

  • member of EALTA.

Prof. Dr M. Ramonienė –

  • member of the joint Doctoral Committee of Ethnology (Vilnius University, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuanian Academy of Music);
  • president of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt; http://litaka.lt/en/apie-mus-2/nariai-2/;
  • editor-in-chief of the journal Taikomoji kalbotyra, http://taikomojikalbotyra.lt/en;
  • expert of the journals Studies of Transition States and Societies, Philologia Estonica Tallinnensis, World Englishes, Language Policy.

A. Valančiauskienė –

Prof. Dr L. Vilkienė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt; http://litaka.lt/en/apie-mus-2/nariai-2/;
  • member of the Project Evaluation Group of Vilnius University Science Support Fund
  • expert of the journal Taikomoji kalbotyra;
  • editorial board member of the journal Gimtoji kalba.

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Prof. Dr M. Ramonienė – member of the Onomastics Subcommittee of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language;
    expert of the Research Council of Lithuania;
    expert of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language.
  • Prof. Dr L. Vilkienė – expert of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language;
    member of the commission of the Best Original Lithuanian Children's Book in 2019. Competition organised by the Lithuanian branch of the International Association of Children and Youth Literature (IBBY).

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Ramonienė, M. Paveldėtoji lietuvių kalba išeivijoje – ar tai svarbu šiandien, Pasaulio lietuvis 583: 43–45.
  • Vilkienė, L. Mokinių žodyno tyrimai Vilniaus gimnazijose. Gimtoji kalba 2: 8–12.
  • Daraškienė, I. 2020. 30 Lituanistinių studijų katedros metų. Gimtoji kalba 11: 9–13.
  • Bingelienė, R. Kalbininkas Jonas Jablonskis (2020). 櫻井映子（編）『リトアニアを知るための60章』明石書店　2020年, Eiko Sakurai (ed.), 60 straipsnių Lietuvai pažinti (Regionų studijos 177), Tokyo: Akashi-shoten, 51–53.
  • Ramonienė, M. Interview to the national radio on Lithuanian emigrants Emigrantai. Kalba ir tapatybė. March 9, 2020.


CENTRE FOR MULTILINGUAL STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
E-mail:
Head – Prof. Dr Inesa Šeškauskienė

STAFF

Professor: Dr I. Šeškauskienė (part-time).
Associate professors: Dr J. Cibulskienė, Dr R. Juknevičienė, Dr K. Geben, Dr E. Petronienė (part-time), Dr B. Ryvitytė.
Assistant professors: Dr V. Kazlauskienė, Dr A. Mastandrea, Dr M. Stasilo, Dr L. Vilkaitė-Lozdienė (part-time).
Lecturers: A. Liutkauskas (part-time), D. Sroda, K. Švedaitė (part-time), M. Talačka (part-time).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Applied linguistics
Cognitive linguistics: metaphor, space, humour
Semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis
Contrastive linguistics
Language for specific purposes (academic, legal)
Sociolinguistics
Learner corpus research
Psycholinguistics
Second language acquisition
Vocabulary and phraseology
Second language teaching
Vocabulary and phraseology
Second language teaching

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by University Budget

Lexicon and Discourse: Semantics, Idiomaticity, Vocabulary. Prof. I. Šeškauskienė. 2019–2022. The following researchers were involved in the Project in 2020: Dr J. Cibulskienė, Dr R. Juknevičienė, Dr V. Kazlauskienė, Dr B. Ryvitytė, Dr L.Vilkaitė-Lozdienė.

The Project aims at investigating numerous lexical aspects of languages: the meaning of a word and a phrase, phraseology and collocations, lexicographic problems, lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects of different discourses (legal, academic, public and mass media, humour, learner, etc.) in one language or across several languages.

The task for 2020 focused on some cognitive aspects of language study: 1) identifying the key features of metaphoricity in different types of discourse (law, public, media, etc.) and 2) cognitive aspects of spatial expressions in learner language. Moreover, in 2020 the project also focused on corpus-based methodologies and their application in the analysis of lexical bundles and phraseology and the influence of morphological form of collocations on the speed of their processing.

Main publications:

Cibulskienė, J. Cross-linguistic metaphorical representation of the #MeToo movement: Communicating attitudes. Respectus Philologicus. 2020, 38(43): 54–66.

Šeškauskienė, I., Juknevičienė, R. Prepositions in L2 written English, or why on poses more difficulties than in. Nordic Journal of English Studies. 2020, 19(1): 65–96.

Conklin, K., Alotaibi, S., Pellicer-Sánchez, A., Vilkaitė-Lozdienė, L. What eye-tracking tells us about reading-only and reading-while-listening in a first and second language. Second Language Research. 2020, 36(3): 257–276.

Research into the Society, Language and Culture in Northern and Middle Europe. Assoc. Prof. I. Steponavičiūtė–Aleksiejūnienė. 2019–2022. Dr K. Geben is involved in the Project.

Language Usage, Language Learning and Teaching. Prof. M. Ramonienė. 2019–2022. Dr K. Geben and Dr M. Stasilo are involved in the Project.

Main publications:

Geben, K., Zielinska, M. Funkcja ekspresywna języka rosyjskiego w wielojęzycznym środowisku młodzieży szkół polskich na Litwie i Ukrainie. Poradnik Językowy. 2020, 34–48.

Stasilo, M. Déclarations, consécutives à l‘annoce des résultats des élections présidentielles en Lituanie et en France, et contexte. Language for International Communication: Linking Interdisciplinary Perspectives 3. 2020, 251–261.

International Research Projects

International EU project COST Action CA19102 Language in the Human Machine Era (LITHME). Coordinator: Dr D. Sayers, University of Jyväskylä. 2020–2024, www.lithme.eu. Participants of the Project: Assoc. Prof. Dr B. Ryvitytė and Assoc. Prof. Dr K. Geben.

International Erasmus + Key2 project Promoting Easy-to-Read Language for Social Inclusion (No – 2020-1-LV01-KA204-077527). Coordinated by the University of Latvia. 2020–2022. Participant: Assist. Prof. Dr L. Vilkaitė.

Other Projects

ARQUS Project. Participant: Assoc. Prof. Dr R. Juknevičienė.

Project of the Lithuanian Association of EFL Teachers (LAKMA) English for Adults. Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Petronienė. Financed by the Embassy of the USA in Lithuania.

Project of FIPF (Fédération internationale des professeurs de français) Premiers pas en français (First Steps in French). November–December 2020. Participant: Assist. Prof. Dr M. Stasilo.

MAIN RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION PARTNERS

Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (Lithuania)
Department of Monitoring and Assessment of the National Agency for Education (Lithuania) (previously, National Examination Centre)
Department of British and North American Studies, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald (Germany)
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Hamar (Norway)
European Centre for Modern Languages, Graz (Austria)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr J. Cibulskienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr K. Geben –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt;
  • staff visit to London, UK within Erasmus staff training programme, February 3–7, 2020.

Assoc. Prof. Dr R. Juknevičienė –

Assist. Prof. Dr V. Kazlauskienė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt;
  • board member of the Lithuanian Association of Teachers of French;
  • chair of the organising committee and member of the programme committee of the international conference The Word in Language and Discourse: Construction of Meaning (Le mot dans la langue et dans le discours 3: la construction du sens) held at Vilnius University in cooperation with the University of Bialystok, Poland.

Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Petronienė –

  • president of the Lithuanian Association of EFL Teachers (LAKMA), http://www.lakmaonline.lt/;
  • member of the Association Advancing Excellence in English Language Teaching (TESOL), https://www.tesol.org/;
  • member of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), https://www.iatefl.org/;
  • chair of the national conference for foreign language teachers Theory and Practice of Language Learning and Teaching: Integrated Competences. 23 October, 2020.

Assoc. Prof. Dr B. Ryvitytė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt;
  • member of the Lithuanian Association for Canadian Studies;
  • member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), http://www.essenglish.org;
  • member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), http://www.societaslinguistica.eu.

Prof. Dr I. Šeškauskienė –

Assist. Prof. Dr L. Vilkaitė – Lozdienė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt.

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • National Agency for Education. Revision of the National Curriculum of General Education (No 09.2.1-ESFA-V-726-03-0001). Participants of the Project: R. Juknevičienė, B. Ryvitytė.
  • Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education. A National Regulation of Study Programmes in Philology, drafted by a group of HEI experts of Lithuania (15 members). Chair: I. Šeškauskienė. Member of the group: J. Cibulskienė.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES


INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH, ROMANCE AND CLASSICAL STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT–01513 Vilnius
E-mail:
Director – Assoc. Prof. Dr Nijolė Juchnevičienė

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7220, 268 7221
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Audronė Kučinskienė

STAFF

Professors: Dr Habil. E. Ulčinaitė (emerita), Dr F. Eloeva, Dr V. Ališauskas.
Associate professors: Dr A. Kučinskienė, Dr N. Juchnevičienė, Dr T. Veteikis, Dr M. Strockis, Dr M. Čiurinskas, Dr Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė (part-time).
Assistant professors: Dr J. Dikmonienė, Dr D. Keršienė, Dr V. Bartninkas (part-time).
Teaching assistants: A. Jaskelevičius, T. Riklius (part-time), M. Tamošaitis (part-time).
Lecturers: I. Štikonaitė, D. Andziulytė, S. Paškonytė, J. Baronienė, K. Svarevičiūtė, R. Papšytė, P. Garbačiauskas, D. Čitavičiūtė (part-time), A. Keturakis (part-time).
Doctoral students: T. Riklius, G. Kelmelytė-Ratniece, A. M. Mackevič, S. Knieža, M. Tamošaitis, Š. Šavėla (doctoral student of the Università di Bologna (Italy) and Vilnius University, joint supervision).
Post-doctoral felow: Dr V. Bartninkas.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Classical antiquity and its tradition (rhetoric, philosophy, historiography)
Early Christian texts and relationship with Classical tradition, 1st–5th centuries
Latin and Greek literature in Lithuania in the 16th–18th centuries; Latinitas as the model of political identity
Reception and interpretation of Classical tradition in literature and art theories

RESEACH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects supported by the University Budget

Classical Culture and Latin and Greek Literature of Lithuania: Tradition, Reception, Contexts. Assoc. Prof. Dr N. Juchnevičienė. 2015–2020.

The task for the year 2020 was to investigate the models of identity as reflected in Greek and Roman literature as well as in the writings of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, to continue the research on Greek philosophical tradition and its reception, to investigate Greek and Coptic texts of Early Christianity and to analyse the poetics of the Classical and Neolatin texts.

Main publications:

Veteikis, T. Mikalojaus Kristupo Chaleckio Alegorijos – pamaldžių troškimų puokštė XVII a. Lietuvos inteligentams. Mikalojaus Kristupo Chaleckio meditacinių emblemų knygos: Alegorijos (1618) ir Dvinaris (1642) (compiled by J. Liškevičienė). Vilnius: VDA leidykla. 2020, 221–283.

Juchnevičienė, N. Moterų gyvenimai Plutarcho Gyvenimuose [The Lives of Women in Plutarch’s Lives]. Literatūra. 2020, 62(3): 31–48.

Eloeva, F. Un Canto Di Primavera di Odysseas Elytis e l'antico mito della risurrezione. Da Omero a Elytis: la metafora del mito dall’epos antico alle letterature moderne. Caltanissetta: Lussografica. 2020, 101–116.

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Tikinčiųjų ir ateistų dialogas: platoniškasis modelis veikale Įstatymai [A Dialogue Between Believers and Atheists: the Platonic Model in Plato's Laws] (Studentų moksliniai tyrimai laisvu nuo studijų metu [Development of Competences of Scientists, Other Reaserchers and Students Through Practical Research Activities ] 09.3.3.- LMT-K-712-22-0230). Dr V. Bartninkas. November 2020–May 2021.

International Research Projects

The Hellenizing Muse: A European Anthology of Poetry in Ancient Greek from the Renaissance to the Present. Coordinators S. Weise (University of Wuppertal, Germanny) and F. Pontani (Universita Ca' Foscari, Venezia), 2017–2021. Dr T. Veteikis is the coordinator of the Polish - Lithuanian research group.

In the course of the year 2020, T. Veteikis, along with the other participating editors of the international anthology, made his final revisions to his anthology-contributing materials (selected texts, introductory articles, translations, textual comments, and bibliographies), and submitted all the corresponding drafts to the chief editors (coordinators) and to the translators for their final comprehensive inspection and improvement of English.

Neo-Latin and Humanist Greek Poetry in the Baltic Region. Coordinator Gr.Vogt-Spira (Philipps-Universität Marburg). 2019–2022. Dr T. Veteikis is a representative of Lithuania.

The main focus of the work in 2020 was to establish basic canon of most interesting, representative, and high-levelled Neo-Latin and Humanist Greek texts created in the early modern times in the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, and to start working on the transcription of texts and translations.

Corpora and Field Researches of the Sentential Relative Clause in Balkan Languages. Russian Foundation of Fundamental Investigations. Participant: Prof. F. Eloeva.

The project deals with sentential relative clause in Balkan languages from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation – prepositions, but it presents studies on postpositions, too. The main languages dealt with in the collection are Albanian, Modern Greek, Bulgarian with special accent on dialect variations (Trakonian, Pontic, Marioupolitan dialects of Modern Greek) basing on the result of the field research. Sentential relative clause is treated by some authors from a semantic perspective, by others as syntactic units or from the point of view of their pragmatic function.

Main publication:

Eloeva, F., Kisilier, M. The preposition απο with a nominative in the modern Greek language: about one feature of case management. Proceedings of the ILI RAS. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 2020, ΧVI(2): 102–126.

Translations of Greek Prose into Russian. The Ministry of Culture of Greek Republic (Hellenic Foundation for Culture), 2019–2022. Prof. Dr F. Eloeva is Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Library of Modern Greek Literature and is responsible for the carrying out of the project.

The project was launched by the Hellenic Foundation for Culture (Greece) and comprises the translation from Greek to Russian of the most relevant works of Modern Greek Literature. Prof. F. Eloeva is responsible for implementing the project together with a group of translators in St. Petersburg. She provided the commentary and wrote prefaces to two books edited in 2019 and 2020.

Main publication:

Eloeva, F. Foreword: Translation problem and the Greek language question. In: Face Down. Anthology of the 19th Century Greek Prose. Aletheia. 2020, 3–13.

Call: H2020-WIDESPREAD-2020-5 Type of action: CSA Proposal number: 952366 Proposal acronym: MotherNet Duration (months): 36 Proposal title: Developing a new Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood Activity: WIDESPREAD-05-2020 – Twinning. Participant: Assoc. Prof. Dr N. Juchnevičienė.

Other Projects

Pažangos samprata Lietuvoje: nuo idėjos iki politikos [The Concept of Progress in Lithuania: from idea to policy]. VU Science Enhancement Foundation. June 2020–December 2020. Participant: Dr V. Bartninkas.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Philipps University of Marburg (Germany)
University of Lund (Sweden)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Universily of Latvia (Latvia)
University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Università di Bologna (Italy)
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Committee, Munich (Germany)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr V. Ališauskas –

D. Andziulytė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr M. Čiurinskas –

Post-doctoral fellow Dr V. Bartninkas –

Prof. Dr F. Eloeva –

  • editorial board member of the journal Yearbook for the Greek Studies, University of Minnesota, http://mgs.umn.edu/;
  • federal expert of the Modern Greek Studies of Russia;
  • member of the executive committee of the international project Translations of Greek prose into Russian, The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Greece, 2019–2022;
  • Honorary Doctor of the University of Thrace (Greece).

P. Garbačiauskas –

Assoc. Prof. Dr N. Juchnevičienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Kučinskienė –

Doctoral student T. Riklius –

Assoc. Prof. Dr M. Strockis –

Dr T. Veteikis, Dr J. Dikmonienė, Dr D. Keršienė, K. Svarevičiūtė, A. Jaskelevičius, A. Keturakis, J. Baronienė, R. Papšytė, S. Paškonytė, I. Štikonaitė, M. Tamošaitis, S. Knieža –

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Bartninkas, V. Xenocrates on the Physical Dimensions of Ouranos. International conference London Ancient Science Conference, Institute of Classical Studies, London, 17 February 2020.
  • Eloeva, F. Modern Greek Lexicon. Embarras de richesse? In Memoriam J. S. Maslov. Annual Conference organized by Department of General Linguistics, St.Petersburg University. 20 May 2020, https://spbu.ru/sites/default/files/20200622_protocol_nk_languages.pdf

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Assoc. Prof. Dr N. Juchnevičienė worked as chair of a group of experts to draft a national regulation of study programmes in Classical Studies by the Lithuanian Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education.
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Kučinskienė worked as member of a group of experts (chaired by N. Juchnevičienė) to draft a national regulation of study programmes in Classical Studies by the Lithuanian Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education.
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr N. Juchnevičienė worked as an expert in contest of the best PhD thesis 2019, organized by the Alliance of Young Scientists of Lithuania.
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Kučinskienė was a member of the organizing committee of the National Contest of Latin Language and Classical Culture for secondary school students, organized by the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports of the Republic of Lithuania, https://www.lmnsc.lt/antikos_lotynu/

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES


DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH PHILOLOGY

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7228
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Jolanta Šinkūnienė

STAFF

Professors: Dr R. Rudaitytė, Dr Habil. A. Usonienė, Dr A. Samalavičius.
Associate professors: Dr L. Bartkuvienė, Dr G. Balčytytė-Kurtinienė, Dr J. Šinkūnienė, Dr R. Šlapkauskaitė, Dr A. Ruskan.
Assistant professors: Dr D. Castiglione, Dr A. Šolienė, Dr J. Urbonaitė, Dr D. Valančiūnas.
Teaching assistants: E. Liubertaitė, D. Zibalas.
Lecturers: G. Maslauskienė, J. Kasteckienė.
Doctoral students: J. Liauksminienė, E. Liubertaitė, L. V. Sruoginis, A. Ledas, G. Maslauskienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cross-linguistic studies of English and Lithuanian
Corpus linguistics
Contrastive syntax and semantics (verb complementation, perception verbs, epistemic modality, semantics of locatives)
Text and discourse analysis, academic discourse
Cognitive linguistics
Contrastive rhetoric: genre analysis
Phonetic and phonological aspects of English and Lithuanian
Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP): academic English, English for professional purposes
Second language acquisition: learner language
Language testing
Corpus-based and corpus-driven phraseology
Translation of professional texts
Literary translation
Language and literature: British, Irish, American, Canadian literature, stylistic analysis of literary texts
Literary traditions, their development and transformation in West European and American literatures
Investigation of literary trends, genres, thematic and problematic issues in West European and American literatures
Textual poetics and its relations to philosophical, aesthetical, sociological systems
Intertextuality
Culture studies: American civilisation, British history and society, Canadian culture, Irish identity

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Germanic and Romance Literary and Cultural Texts. Prof. Dr R. Rudaitytė. 2019–2022.

The department (in cooperation with the departments of French and German Philology as well as the Centre for Scandinavian Studies) has been carrying out investigation of literary trends, genres and problems of poetics, the development of literary traditions, the relationship of literary texts with Philosophy, Aesthetics, Psychology, Sociology and other theoretical systems. Some of the academic staff has been continually doing research in the field of the history of Germanic literatures and literatures in Romance languages and publishing articles on the related issues.

Main publications:

Samalavičius, A. From ideology of culture to cultural critique: Kultūros barai journal and the Changing Roles of Lithuanian Intellectuals (1989-2019), In: Europe Thirty Years after 1989. Ed. Tomas Kavaliauskas. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2020, 221–240.

Šlapkauskaitė, R. Precariousness, kinship, and care: Becoming human in Claire Cameron’s The Last Neanderthal. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. SAGE Publications. 2020, 1–15.

Germanic, Romance and Baltic Language Studies. Prof. Dr Habil. A. Usonienė. 2019–2021.

The linguists of the department carry out this research in close collaboration with their colleagues based at the departments of German Philology, the Lithuanian Language and the Centre for Scandinavian studies. The focus of the research is on the synchronic and diachronic analysis of language-specific features characteristic of the grammatical, lexical and semantic structure of the languages under study. The range of research methods used and theoretical approaches followed varies greatly: from purely descriptive to functional, from cognitive to socio-linguistic, from quantitative to qualitative analysis of authentic language data.

Main publications:

Castiglione, D. Nel mondo sensibile: focus descrittivo ed empatia nella poesia italiana contemporanea [‘In the sensible world: descriptive focus and empathy in contemporary Italian poetry’]. Enthymema. 2020, 423–444.

Ruskan, A. On the manifestations of stance towards saints in argumentative news discourse. In Sanctity as a Story: Narrative (Invariants) of the Saint, ed. Halszka Leleń. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 2020, 143–160.

Urbonaitė, J. Review of D. R. Roush (2018). Event Structure Metaphors through the Body. Metaphor in Mental Healthcare, by Tay, D. (ed.), special issue of Metaphor and the Social World. 2020, 10(2): 338–343.

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Discourse Markers in Lithuanian: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study (P-MIP-17-308). Dr J. Šinkūnienė, Dr E. Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Dr A. Ruskan, Dr A. Šolienė. (Until 30 June 2020).

Main publication:

Šolienė, A. Lithuanian discourse markers na and nu: A glimpse at Lithuanian-English parallel corpus data. Lefer Marie-Aude (Eds.). Translating and Comparing Languages: Corpus-based Insights. Selected Proceedings of the Fifth Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies Conference, Granger Sylviane. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain. 2020, 237–255.

Research Council of Lithuania. A Taxonomy of Verbal Imagery in Poetic Discourse. Post-doctoral research grant. Dr D. Castiglione.

The project aims at developing taxonomy of verbal images identified in poetic discourse based on a qualitative and quantitative analysis of 195 canonical Anglo-American poems. Images will be parsed according to a number of grammatical, semantic and structural parameters affecting language imageability, and will therefore be treated as stable units amenable to linguistic analysis. This stands in sharp contrast with the traditionally vague characterization of image (and imagery) in literary criticism, which has so far prevented stylistics from dealing with them systematically or even from dealing with them at all. An IIP (Image Identification Procedure) will therefore be developed to complement the existing MIP (Metaphor Identification Procedure).

International Research Projects

Exploring Canadian Studies from Nordic and Baltic Perspectives. Funded by Nordplus Higher Education program. Participant: Dr R. Šlapkauskaitė.

Call: H2020-WIDESPREAD-2020-5 Type of action: CSA Proposal number: 952366 Proposal acronym: MotherNet Duration (months): 36 Proposal title: Developing a new Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood Activity: WIDESPREAD-05-2020 – Twinning. Participants: Dr L. Batkuvienė, Dr R. Šlapkauskaitė.

TEchnology-Mediated PLurilingual Activities for (language) Teacher Education - TEMPLATE. Funded by Erasmus+ Grant. Participants: Dr G. Balčytytė-Kurtinienė, J. Kasteckienė.

Stance and Subjectivity in Discourse: Towards an Integrated Framework for the Analysis of Epistemicity, Effectivity, Evaluation and Inter/subjectivity from a Critical Discourse Perspective. Proyectos de I+D de Generación de Conocimiento, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. Participants: Dr A. Ruskan, Dr J. Šinkūnienė, Dr A. Šolienė.

Academic Writing in the Baltic States: Rhetorical Structures through Culture(s) and Languages. Funded by Baltic Research Programme. Participants: Dr J. Šinkūnienė, Dr A. Ruskan, doctoral student G. Maslauskienė.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Giessen University (Germany)
University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid University (Spain)
Mainz University (Germany)
University of Greifswald (Germany)
University of Versailles, Paris (France)
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain)
University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
University of Zaragoza (Spain)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Bartkuvienė –

  • President of the Lithuanian Association of the University Teachers of English(LAUTE);
  • member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE);
  • editorial board-member of the journal Journalism Research (Vilnius University, Faculty of Communication);
  • member of the Lithuanian Association of University Teachers of English;
  • member of the Lithuanian Oxford and Cambridge Society;
  • senior member of St. Hilda’s College (Oxford University).

Assist. Prof. Dr D. Castiglione –

  • member of the ‘Effects of Foregrounding’ Research Coalition.

Assoc. Prof. Dr G. Balčytytė-Kurtinienė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (LATEFL);
  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA); www.litaka.lt;
  • member of the International Phonetic Association (IPA).

Prof. Dr R. Rudaitytė –

  • editor-in-chief of the journal Literatūra (Literature);
  • board member and Lithuanian representative of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), http://www.essenglish.org;
  • President of the Lithuanian Association of the University Teachers of English (LAUTE);
  • editorial board member of the Literature of Enlightenment Series;
  • editorial advisory board member of the journal EJES (European Journal of English Studies), http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals;
  • member of the Lithuanian Literary Translators’ Association, http://www.llvs.lt;
  • international advisor with the Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research, University of Wolverhampton, UK;
  • member of the Peer Review College of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK;
  • member of the English Association, http://www.le.ac.uk/engassoc/fellows.html.

Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Ruskan –

  • member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE);
  • member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE);
  • member of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA).

Prof. Dr A. Samalavičius –

  • editor in chief of the Journal of Architecture and Urbanism (VGTU Press);
  • editor in chief of Lituanus: the Lithuanian Quarterly (Lituanus Foundation, Chicago);
  • editorial board member of Architecture Research (USA); Czas Kultury (Poland); Journal of Architectural Design and Urbanism (Indonesia); Mathematics Interdiscioplinary Research (Iran);
  • member of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (UK);
  • member of the Urban History Association (USA);
  • member of the Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Forum (USA);
    member of PEN International;
  • board member of the Lithuanian PEN Centre;
  • member of the Advisory Board for Penn State University Press book series Ivan Illich: 21st Century Perspectives.

Assoc. Prof. Dr J. Šinkūnienė –

  • member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE);
  • member of the European Society for the Study of English(ESSE);
  • member of the Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change (DiPVaC) Research Network;
  • member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association (LITAKA);
  • member of the international advisory board of the journal IPERSTORIA,
    https://iperstoria.it/about/displayMembership/15;
  • executive secretary of the journal Kalbotyra;
  • international correspondent of Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche en Anglais de Specialite(GERAS) in Lithuania;
  • management committee member, member of the steering group and group leader for Early career investigators Special interest group in COST Action CA 15137 (European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities);
  • management committee member, member of the core group in COST Action CA 15221 (Advancing effective institutional models towards cohesive teaching, learning, research and writing development);
  • representative of Lithuania in Horizon 2020 SC6 programme committee;
  • member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Committee at the Research Council of Lithuania.

Assoc. Prof. Dr R. Šlapkauskaitė –

  • editor-in-chief of the journal Literatūra(Literature);
  • member of the Lithuanian Association for Canadian Studies;
  • member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE);
  • member of the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies(CACLALS).

Assist. Prof. Dr A. Šolienė –

  • member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE).

Assist. Prof. Dr J. Urbonaitė –

  • member of International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA);
  • member of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM);
  • member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE);
  • member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association (LITAKA).

Prof. Habil. Dr A. Usonienė –

  • editor-in-chief of the journal Kalbotyra (Linguistics);
  • member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE);
  • member of the Philological Society (UK);
  • member of European Society for the Study of English (ESSE);
  • member of the Advisory Board of the journal Revista de Lengua para Fines Específicos (LFE), http://www.webs.ulpgc.es/lfe/index.html;
  • member of the Scientific Committee of the fifth edition of the Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS 2018) conference series in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/uccts2018-committees.html.

Assist. Prof. Dr D. Valančiūnas –

  • member of the International Gothic Association (IGA);
  • member of the Lithuanian Society for the Study of Religions;
  • member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE);
  • member of the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS).

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Castiglione, D. [invited speaker]. The pragmatics of poetic difficulty. Catholic University of Chile (online). 14 October 2020.
  • Castiglione, D. [invited speaker]. I poeti-critici (Seminar on critics-poets). University of Aix-Marseille, France (online). 20 November 2020.
  • Ruskan A., Šolienė, A. Realizations of epistemicity and effectivity in Lithuanian political discourse. International conference on stance, (inter)subjectivity and identity in discourse. Complutense University in Madrid. 09–10 Spetember 2020.
  • Šlapkauskaitė, R. Life in the woods, power in the hands: Cultivating Memory in Susan Vreeland’s The Forest Lover. Tartu University, Estonia. 05–07 March 2020.
  • Urbonaitė, J. Acting emotions: Metaphor and metonymy in the animated movie „Inside Out“(2015) and its Lithuanian dubbed version. RaAM13 conference. Hamar University, Norway. 18–21 June 2020.

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Prof. Dr A. Samalavičius - chairman of the Jury for the Contest of Monument to the 500th Anniversary of Reformation in Lithuania (Ministry of Culture and Lithuanian Association of Artists)

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Castiglione, D. Organisation of 3 public talks for the Mind sharpener series, with invited speakers.
  • Castiglione, D. Teaching Italian, promoting Italy: a series of four webinars.

 

DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH PHILOLOGY

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7232
E-mail:
Head - Prof. Dr Vytautas Bikulčius

STAFF

Professors: Dr V. Bikulčius, Dr G. Dručkutė.
Associate professor: Dr E. Kačkutė.
Assistant professor: Dr V. Valiukienė.
Lecturers: P. Birbilas, Dr J. Navakauskienė, L. Perkauskytė, D. Repeikaitė-Jarmalavičienė, I. Šerniuvienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cross-linguistic studies of French and Lithuanian
Corpus linguistics
Contrastive syntax and semantics
Text and discourse analysis, academic discourse
Phonetics and phonological aspects of French and Lithuanian
Aspects of Francophone Studies
Language and literature: Romance literatures, stylistic analysis of literary texts
Literary traditions, their development and transformation in French and Francophone literatures
Literary trends, genres, thematic and problematic issues in French and Francophone literatures
Textual poetics and its relations to philosophical, aesthetical, sociological systems
Itertextuality

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Germanic and Romance Literary and Cultural Texts. Prof. R. Rudaitytė. 2019–2022.

The Department carried out investigation of literary trends, genres and problems of poetics, the development of literary tradition, the relationship of literary texts with Philosophy, Aesthetics, Psychology, Sociology and other theoretical systems. The academic staff continued research in the field of the history of French and Francophone literatures and published articles on the related issues.

Main publications:

Bikulčius, V. Erico Chevillard’o romano Gervuogė Rožė žanrinės ypatybės. Literatūra. 2020, 62(4): 23–29.

Dručkutė, G. Sprendimai apie Lietuvos grožį Jeano Mauclère'o knygoje Po blyškiu Lietuvos dangumi. Literatūra. 2020, 62(4): 46–53.

Averis, K., Kačkutė, E., Mao, C. Introduction: Crossing the Boundaries. Transgression(s) in Twenty-First-Century Women’s Writing. 2020, 444: 1–10.

International Research Projects

Horizon 2020. Twinning. MotherNet. Call: H2020-WIDESPREAD-2020-5. Proposal title: Developing a new Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood Activity: WIDESPREAD-05-2020. Project coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Kačkutė. 2021–2023.

Other Projects

Migration, Motherhood, Career (exhibition “Portrait of a (Working) Mother” and accompanying public events). Funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture (together with the Lithuanian Librarians’ Association). Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Kačkutė. 2020–2021.

Portrait of a (Working) Mother is an exhibition consisting of photographic portraits and short interviews focussing on identities of highly educated migrant mothers who came to Geneva due to their own or their partners’ professional engagements. It reflects on what it means to be an educated, ambitious woman living, mothering and possibly working in Geneva. A series of exhibitions of the portraits and interviews will be held in different Lithuanian libraries accompanied by discussions with the creators and other experts in gender and migration. The aim of the project is to raise awareness of the general public around issues of migration, gender and career advancement.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Institute of the Lithuanian Language and Folklore (Lithuania)
Association of Lithuanian Comparative Literature (Lithuania)
French Institute in Lithuania
University of Bialystok (Poland)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr V. Bikulčius –

  • member of the Lithuanian Literary Translators’ Association.

Prof. Dr G. Dručkutė –

  • executive secretary of the journal Literatūra (Literature);
  • board member of the Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association;
  • editorial board member of the Medieval Literature and the Literature of Enlightenment Series;
  • member of the Lithuanian Literary Translators’ Association.

Assist. Prof. Dr V. Valiukienė –

  • board member of the Lithuanian Association of Teachers of French.

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Kačkutė-Hagan, E. The Voice of the Voiceless Mother in Abla Fahroud’s Le bonheur a la queue glissante. Motherhood and Mothering in Literary Medical and Media Narratives an Interdisciplinary Symposium. Interdisciplinary Symposium. Uppsala University, 14–16 October 2020.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Bikulčius, V. Lecture French Prizes of Literature in 2020. French Institute (IF Lituanie), Vilnius, 09 December 2020.
  • Valiukienė, V. Istorijos žinių integravimas prancūzų kalbos mokyme taikant simuliacijos metodą. Conference of Lithuanian Teachers of French, Vilnius, 23 October 2020.


DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 2687232
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Diego Ardoino

STAFF

Associate professors: Dr Diego Ardoino (part-time), Dr D. Būrė, Dr N. Di Nunzio.
Assistant professor: Dr J. T. Ramonaitė (part-time).
Lecturers: A. Calì, P. Fertoli, Dr A. Gataveckaitė, I. Kirilauskaitė, D. Trezzi, M. Notari (part-time).
Doctoral student: Julija Šabasevičiūtė (joint supervision of Pisa University and Vilnius University; supervisor at VU Assoc. Prof. D. Ardoino).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Italian synchronic and diachronic linguistics; Italian dialectology
Cross-linguistic studies of Italian and Lithuanian
Italian language teaching
History of the Italian language
History of the Italian literature
Translation studies
Lexicography

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Germanic and Romance Literary and Cultural Texts. Prof. R. Rudaitytė. 2019–2022.

Main publications:

Būrė, D. Il teatro italiano e l’ultimo atto della storia polacco-lituana in due opere di Gaetano Martinelli e di Gaetano Fiorio. In viaggio: incontri, percezioni e riflessioni lungo il filo della poiesi. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo DiG. 2020, 129–138. (Italipolis. Collana di studi italianistici; vol. 2).

Di Nunzio, N. Modernismo e diaspora. «Aidai» e il Montale dei profughi lituani. Di esuli, migranti e altri viaggiatori: trans(n)azioni fra letteratura e storia, a cura di D. Prola, S. Rosatti, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo DiG. 2020, 107–119.

Di Nunzio, N. La terra abiettante. L’emigrazione italiana e gli Stati Uniti attraverso lo specchio di Americana. La scrittura dell’esilio oltreoceano: diaspora culturale italo-tedesca nell’Europa totalitaria del nazifascismo: riflessioni interdisciplinari, a cura di E. Saletta. Roma: Aracne. 2020, 63–98.

Synchronic, Diachronic and Typological Investigations into the Lexical, Phonological and Grammatical systems of the Baltic Languages. Prof. Dr Habil. B. Stundžia. 2019–2022.

Main publications:

Ardoino, D. & Napolitano, R. (Eds.) La cultura italiana nel Baltico orientale: storie, relazioni e approcci. Novi Ligure (AL), Edizioni Joker. 2020, 176 p.

Ardoino, D. L’insegnamento della lingua italiana all’Universita di Vilnius (1579-2015). Napolitano, R., Ardoino D. (Eds.). La cultura italiana nel Baltico orientale: storie, relazioni e approcci. Novi Ligure (AL), Edizioni Joker. 2020, 85–99.

Šabasevičiūtė, J. Il bianco e il nero nella paremiografia italiano-lituana (Balta ir juoda italų-lietuvių paremiografijoje). Napolitano, R., Ardoino D. (Eds.). La cultura italiana nel Baltico orientale: storie, relazioni e approcci. Novi Ligure (AL), Edizioni Joker. 2020, 145–160.

Other Projects

Pastille - European Arts and Traditions in Italian Language Learning. Funded by the European Commission through the Polish National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme. 2019–2022. https://pastille.pixel-online.org/. Participant: Assoc. Prof. N. Di Nunzio.

The 4th Expedition of Dialectologists to Western Liguria (San Bartolomeo al Mare, Bordighera, Andora and Diano Marina) 23 August–4 September 2020. Supported by Erasmus Traineeship Programme. Organization: D. Ardoino. Participants: J. Šabasevičiūtė, A. Calì, D. Ardoino and students of the BA Study Programme of Italian Philology.

The project investigates some dialectal varieties of Western Liguria, paying particular attention to phonetic and lexical aspects. The main aim of the project is to record audio and video files of native dialect speakers and at the same time to take pictures of particular objects mentioned during the conversations. The privileged fields of investigation concern the old recessive crafts such as milling, shoemaking, blacksmithing, etc.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

University of Pisa (Italy)
The Italian Institute of Culture in Vilnius (Lithuania)
National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, Vilnius (Lithuania)
Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri, Bordighera (Italy)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Būrė –

  • editorial board member of the Letteratura italiana antica: rivista annuale di testi e studi (Italy);
  • editorial board member of the Rivista di letteratura italiana e francese (Italy);
  • member of the Commission for the preparation of the Series Viduramžių biblioteka published by the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore.

Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Ardoino –

  • member of the scientific council of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Vilnius, Lithuania;
  • board member of the Center for the Study of Language and Society of the University of Bern (representative of the Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures);
  • in charge of the newly founded Baltic studies centre in Bern.

Assoc. Prof. Dr N. Di Nunzio –

  • member of the Committee of the PhD Study Programme of Economia, cultura e ambiente. Scienze economiche e umanistiche per la valorizzazione dei territori, University of Foggia;
  • editorial board member of the journal La parola nel testo. Rivista internazionale di letteratura italiana e comparata, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa-Roma.

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Ardoino, D. The newly founded Baltic studies centre in Bern. Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages International Workshop Contemporary challenges of Czech Baltistics 23–25 November 2020. Masaryk University, Brno.
  • Di Nunzio, N. Nessuno in cerca di identità: maschere, metateatralità e intertestualità pirandelliane nel Faust 67 di Tommaso Landolfi. Culture del Teatro Moderno e Contemporaneo. Per Angela Paladini Volterra: “Metateatro e altro teatro oltre l’emergenza”.13–15 November 2020. Roma, Università Tor Vergata.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • N. di Nunzio, A. Calì, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Vilnius and the Embassy of Italy – organizers of the 20th Week of the Italian Language in the World L’italiano tra parola e immagine: graffiti, illustrazioni, fumetti, 19–25 October, 2020.
  • Mollica, V., Nicosia, A., Fabbri Fellini, F. (Eds.) Fellini nel mondo. Federico Fellini šimtmetis! Roma: Gangemi Editore International, 2020. 128 p. Translator: D. Būrė.
  • Nuo Sacro iki Profano: Giorgio Baratti dailės kolekcija iš Milano. Vilnius: Nacionalinis muziejus Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės valdovų rūmai, 2020. Translator: D. Būrė.
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini. Poezija. Nemunas. 2020, 2: 1–4. Translator: D. Būrė.

 

INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

5 Universiteto, LT–01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7266
E-mail:
Director – Prof. Dr Roma Kriaučiūnienė

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND RESEARCH

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7272
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Liudmila Arcimavičienė

STAFF

Professor: Dr R. Kriaučiūnienė
Associate professor: Dr L. Arcimavičienė
Assistant professor: Dr O. Ivancu
Teaching assistants: D. Pinkevičienė, I. Stasiūnaitė, I. Snukiškienė, L. Zavadskienė
Lecturers: R. Burbaitė, A. Dapšienė, L. Giniūnienė, D. Gornatkevičienė, D. Janavičienė, A. Jankūnienė, V. Jankauskaitė-Jokūbaitienė, L. Marčiulionytė, I. Piščikienė, A. Pranculienė, I. Rozgienė, R.Sirvydė, R. Stalnionytė, A. Statkevičienė, D. Straižytė, V. Vaskelaitė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Applied Linguistics
English morphology and semantics
Foreign language teaching methodology
Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP): academic English, English for professional purposes
Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
Development of value attitudes and moral competence
Development of students’ linguistic and intercultural competences
Media and political discourse

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Teaching and Learning Modern Languages as a Prerequisite for the Development of General and Subject-Specific Competences. Prof. Dr Roma Kriaučiūnienė. 2019–2022.

The aim is to investigate the possibilities of developing general and subject-specific competencies in teaching and learning processes of modern languages, analyse various lingvo-didactic phenomena.

Main publications:

Arcimavičienė, L. Metaphor, identity and conflict in political discourse. In: Language of Conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian Crisis. 2020, 45–65.

Arcimavičienė, L. The polarity of collective identity in diplomatic discourse: legitimacy by metaphor. In: Euro-American Relations in the Age of Globalization: Risks and Opportunities. 2020, 73–97.

Kriaučiūnienė, R. (ed.) Educational, Linguistic, and Media Discourses. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2020,187 p.

International Research Projects

Think4Jobs Critical Thinking for Successful Jobs (No 2020-1-EL01-KA203-078797). ERASMUS + KA 2 Strategic Partnerships Project. Project coordinator University of Western Macedonia, Greece; project partners: Hochschule Emden/Leer, Germany; Academia de studii economice din Bucurestia, Romania; Universidade de Evore, Portugal; Vilnius University, Lithuania. 2020-2023. Coordinator of Vilnius University research team: Dr R. Kriaučiūnienė. Participants: Dr L. Arcimavičienė, Dr O. Ivancu.

WP4 Multilingual and Multicultural University, on behalf of Vilnius University in Erasmus+ KA2- Strategic Partnerships project Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices European Universities ARQUS European University Alliance 612247-EPP-1-2019-1-ES-EPPKA2-EUR-UNIV. https://www.arqus-alliance.eu/ funded by the European Commission. Project coordinator: Granada University. Project partners: University of Bergen, University of Graz, Université de Lyon, University of Padova, Leipzig University, Vilnius University. 2019-2021. https://www.arqus-alliance.eu/. Coordinator and manager: Prof. Dr R. Kriaučiūnienė. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Arcimavičienė, L. Marčiulionytė.

Health Providers under Moral Distress, Panic and Trauma during the COVID-19 Pandemic (a dual-pattern study). Project coordinator Prof. Dr Ewa Nowak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland). 2020–2021. Participant: Dr R. Kriaučiūnienė.

Other projects

New Methodological Approaches to Teaching about Disinformation Discourses in Lithuanian High Schools and Universities. Assist. Prof. Dr A. Mastandrea. 2020–2021. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Arcimavičienė, V. Jankauskaitė – Jokūbaitienė, Prof. Dr R.Kriaučiūnienė.

This project aims at raising critical awareness of specific components of disinformation discourses in high schools and universities in Lithuania. The main activities include (1) organising workshops for high school and university undergraduate students; (2) creating a Youtube channel for teaching and learning resources on disinformation discourses; (3) producing teaching/learning materials; (4) organising a symposium where university faculty and high school teachers and students will present their case studies on disinformation based on a proposed model of analysis.

Educating the Society and Strengthening the Potential of Human Resources in Lithuania (09.4.3-ESFA-T-846-01-0106). English teaching for professional development. Participant: R. Sirvydė.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

University of Konstanz (Germany)
Leipzig University (Germany)
Adam Mickiewicz University/Poznań (Poland)
University of Turin (Italy)
University of East Anglia (UK)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Arcimavičienė –

Prof. Dr R. Kriaučiūnienė –

Teaching assistant L. Zavadskienė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Teachers’ of English as a Foreign Language (LAKMA);
  • member of the Language Teachers Association of Lithuania (LKPA) http://www.lkpa.vdu.lt/apie-lkpa/.

V. Vaskelaitė –

  • co-founder and member of Lithuanian Association of Conference Interpreters.

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • R. Kriaučiūnienė. Implementation of KMDD in Childhood Pedagogy Study Programme to Increase Students' Moral Competence: Vilnius University Case. 14th International Symposium Moral Competence: Its Nature, Relevance, and Education, organized by the Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, and Institute of Philosophy, AMU Poznan (Poland), held 23–24 July 2020. http://www.conference.uki.vu.lt/
  • J. Fischer (Universität Göttingen) & R. Kriaučiūnienė (Vilnius University). Managing Change: Implementing a Task-Based Approach to Teaching and Assessment at Department Level. XVI CercleS International Conference, Brno, September 11, 2020, http://www.cercles.org/EN-H30/cercles-news/189/xvi-cercles-international-conference-2020.html
  • R. Kriaučiūnienė. Application of Action-oriented Approach to Language Teaching at University Level at the 8th Ukrainian scientific-practical conference Current Problems of Philological Science and Pedagogical Practice, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Faculty of Ukrainian and Foreign Philology and Study of Art, Department of English Philology. 26–27 November 2020.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

 

DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH IN LANGUAGES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7271
E-mail:
Acting head – Prof. Dr Roma Kriaučiūnienė

STAFF

Associate professors: Dr A. Janulienė, Dr D. Jarmalavičius, Dr S. Postič, Dr V. J. Pukevičiūtė.
Assistant professors: Dr S. Kontrimienė, Dr D. Veličkienė.
Lecturers: Dr O. Medvedeva, R. Bačiulienė, V. Eimulienė, A. Kuokštienė, R. Montvilienė, B. O. Palovienė, G. Pleikienė, D. Snapkauskaitė, R. Valiukienė, L. Norvilienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Contrastive syntax and semantics
Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP): academic English, English for professional purposes
Content language integrated learning (CLIL)
Literary discourse
Translation

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Structural, Semantic, Phonetic and Functional Research of Languages for Specific Purposes. Prof. Dr J. Korostenskienė. 2019–2022.

The aim is to investigate language structure and aspects of discourse within the dimensions of semantics, phonetic theory, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, translation theory and conceptual metaphor theory, seeking to reveal linguistic phenomena through the use of one or more language(s) as well as by exploring their interaction with cultural and social processes.

Main publications:

Postič, S. Words related to time as a reflection of the difference between Russian and Anglophone cultures. Educational, Linguistic, and Media Discourses. Ed. Roma Kriaučiūnienė. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2020, 92–103.

Pukevičiūtė, V. J., Jarmalavičius, D., Straižytė, D. The attitude of 9th –10th class students towards content and language integrated learning (CLIL). Educational, Linguistic, and Media Discourses. Ed. R. Kriaučiūnienė. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2020, 29–49.

Zydziunaite, V., Ponomarenko, T., Kontrimienė, S., Kaminskiene, L. Jurgile, V. Challenges in teacher leadership: workload, time allocation, and self-esteem. European Journal of Contemporary Education. 2020, 9(4): 948–962.

National Research Projects

Western and Southern Highlanders of Lithuania: Research into Interaction between Lithuanian Dialects and Other Languages. Research Programme of the Functioning and Change of Standard Lithuanian, Lithuanian Dialects and Other Language Varieties. Institute of the Lithuanian Language. 2018–2020. Participant: Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Jarmalavičius.

Research Council of Lithuania. Teacher's Leadership in the Co-creation of Learning with a Student (No S-MIP-19-056). 2020. Researcher: Assist. Prof. Dr S. Kontrimienė.

The aim of the project is to explore the phenomenon of teacher leadership. The Project is based on learning-to-learn strategies and manifests in interactions with students during the implementation of the co-creation of learning.

Research Council of Lithuania The Microclimate of Pre-school Education Institutions in Kaunas Region. (No S-MIP-19-056). 2019–2020. Researcher: Assist. Prof. Dr S. Kontrimienė.

The aim of the project is to explore community relations and physical and emotional security in pre-school education institutions in Kaunas Region.

International Research Projects

Innovative Teacher Education through Personalized Learning / INTERPERARL (No 2018-1-LT01-KA203-046979). ERASMUS + KA 203 Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Project. Project partners: University of Iceland (Iceland), University College Cork (Ireland), Vilnius University, Šiauliai University, Vytautas Magnus University. 2019–2020. Researcher: Assist. Prof. Dr S. Kontrimienė.

The aim of the project is to develop, implement, test and transfer innovative practices of personalised learning within teacher education system(s). This aim will be achieved through the development and implementation of the conceptual framework of personalized learning, which will bring innovative changes to teacher education curriculum, methods, tools and assessment practices.

Think4Jobs Critical Thinking for Successful Jobs (No 2020-1-EL01-KA203-078797). ERASMUS + KA 2 Strategic Partnerships Project. Project coordinator University of Western Macedonia, Greece; project partners: Hochschule Emden/Leer, Germany; Academia de studii economice din Bucurestia, Romania; Universidade de Evore, Portugal; Vilnius University, Lithuania. 2020–2023. Researchers: Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Postič, A. Vaidakavičiūtė.

The project proposes the development of CT blended curricula in order to frame apprenticeships designed to give HE students the opportunity to train critical thinking skills in a systematic way, transferring them from an academic environment to a professional/employment context. The project aims at strengthening University Business Collaboration (UBC) for effective promotion, development, support and assessment of students’ Critical Thinking. In addition, the project will exploit apprenticeships as a privileged interface in order to transfer students’ CT skills into a professional context.

Other projects

International Project Live and Learn. Supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Partners: Vilnius Šilo Special School, Utena Art School, Molėtų Art School, Dusetų Art School, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Denmark, Kristofferskolen, Denmark, Præstelundskolen, Denmark. 2020. Project coordinator: R. Bačiulienė.

TĘSK/ Continue! (No 09.2.1-ESFA-V-727-01-0001). EU Measure Improvement of Qualifications of Teachers and Other Education System Employees. Funded by the Operational Programme for the European Union Funds: Investment in Lithuania.

The aim of the project: to improve student achievements by providing support for effective changes in general education institutions. The focus is on a) implementing innovations in teacher professional development and b) implementing innovations in pre-service teacher training. 2018–2020. Internship supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Janulienė.

National Public Speaking Competition ESU Lithuania, ESU Headquarters UK, International LCC University, Embassies (USA, UK, Canada). Participant: B. O. Palovienė. 03 December 2019–03 June 2020.

Application of Contemporary Teaching Methods in the Field of Specialised Language and Terminology. Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, North Macedonia, N. Macedonia. 2020–2022. Participant: R. Valiukienė.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

University of Cagliary (Italy)
University of Iceland (Iceland)
University College Cork (Ireland)
University of Western Macedonia (Greece)
University of Göttingen (Germany)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Janulienė –

  • member of the Board of the English Speaking Union;
  • member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association (LITAKA);
  • member of the European Society for the Study of English;
  • editorial board member of the journal Verbum, http://www.journals.vu.lt/verbum/about/editorialTeam

B. O. Palovienė –

  • member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA);
  • President of the English-Speaking Union Lithuania;
  • international board member of the English Speaking Union (ESU);
  • virtual seminar in partnership with the US Embassy (PR officer Sarra Stealy) to the students of LEXIS: US ELECTIONS 2020.

Assist. Prof. Dr S. Kontrimienė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Educational Research Association (LERA);
  • member of the European Educational Research Association (EERA);
  • member of the World Education Research Association (WERA);
  • member of the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH);
  • member of the Language Teachers’ Association (LKPA).

Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Postič –

  • member of the Quality Assurance Committee of the Erasmus+ Key Action 2-Strategic partnerships project Think4Jobs Critical Thinking for Successful Jobs. (No. 2020-1- EL01-KA203-078797).

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • S. Kontrimienė. Relationships among Teacher Leadership, Teacher Workload, Time Allocation and Self-esteem. Co-authors: V. Zydziunaite, T. Ponomarenko. The Osaka Conference on Education (OCE), online from Japan via Zoom. 14–17 December 2020. https://oce.iafor.org
  • S. Kontrimienė. As with Parents, So with God? Relationships between Humanistic Spirituality and Parental and Adult Attachment Styles. 9th Teaching & Education Conference held online from Paris and Prague via Zoom. 23–24 June 2020. https://www.iises.net/past-conferences/teaching-and-edication/9th-teaching-education-conference-prague
  • B. O. Palovienė. Educational Challenges in Lithuania Facing COVID-19. ESU France (online). 6 June 2020.
  • B. O. Palovienė. Educational Challenges in Lithuania Facing COVID-19: Schools and Universities. ESU US. 20 October 2020.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • R. Bačiulienė conducted a number of events for schoolchildren in gymnasiums and libraries of Lithuania; workshops in Lentvaris Library September 18, 2020; Dusetų K. Būga Library on September 25, 2020.


DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LINGUISTICS

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7268
E-mail:
Head – Prof. Dr Danguolė Melnikienė

STAFF

Professor: Dr D. Melnikienė
Associate professors: Dr C. Caro Dugo, Dr D. Mickūnaitytė.
Teaching assistant: A. Rascon Caballero.
Lecturers: E. Girniuvienė, S. Kamarauskaitė, S. Kosova, L. Pavan, N. Strikauskaitė, I. Subačienė, R. Tamošaitienė

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Lexicography
Lexicology
Translation studies
Literary studies

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Diachronic and Achronic Lexicography and Metalexicography. Prof. Dr D. Melnikienė. 2019–2022.

The aim is to investigate different types of dictionaries, their history, peculiarities of their lexicographic description, analyse dictionary formation problems, provide methodological insights into reparation of new and development of the existing dictionaries; develop and digitise bilingual dictionaries.

Main publications:

Melnikienė, D. Les valeurs politiques sont-elles applicables aux dictionnaires de langue? /Do political values apply to language dictionaries? Cahiers du dictionnaire. 2020, 12: 77–90.

Rascón Caballero, A. La información sintáctica en los diccionarios bilingües y monolingües de aprendizaje. Culture crossroads. 2020, 15: 117–131.

Melnikienė, D. [dictionary] Dictionnaire français-lituanien. Lietuvių-prancūzų kalbų žodynas, https://www.editions-hermann.fr/livre/9791037003232, Paris: Hermann Editeur. 2020, 1160 p.

National Research Projects

The Influence of Pandemic Stress on Consumer Decision-Making - a Cognitive Analysis and Forecast for Lituanian Economy. No P-COV-20-53. Coordinator: VU Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies. 01 June 2020–31 December 2020. Senior researcher: Prof. Dr. D. Melnikienė.

The aim of the project is to study how the stress caused by the pandemic will affect the consumption decisions of the population and how it will affect the Lithuanian economy, to perform a lexical analysis of the pandemic discourse and to compile the first Lithuanian dictionary of Covid-19. Based on the results of the survey and the lexical analysis of the pandemic discourse, the Project seeks to formulate recommendations to governmental insititutions on how to communicate more effectively with the society.

MAIN RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION PARTNERS

Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
Paris-Sorbonne University (France)
University of Pisa (Italy)
University of Bari (Italy)
Sorbonne Paris North (France)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr C. Caro Dugo –

  • editorial board member of the journal Verbum;
  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators;
  • member of THE International Association of Teachers of Spanish.

Prof. Dr D. Melnikienė –

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • D. Melnikienė. Dimension extralinguistique des exemples dictionnariques. International Conference Dictionnaire: l'exemple lexicographique. Paris, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. 9–10 November 2020.


MEDIA LINGUISTICS CENTRE

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7271
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Viktorija Makarova

STAFF

Professor: Dr J. Korostenskienė.
Associate professors: Dr L. Chodzkienė, Dr L. Bikelienė.
Assistant professor: Dr L.Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė.
Lecturers: A. Ledas, J. Kirejeva, N. Petrauskienė, H. L. Shipman, E. Židonienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Phonetics
Morphology
Syntax
Cognitive linguistics
Persuasive discourse
Literary discourse
Conflict communication
Intercultural Communication
Foreign language teaching methodology

RESEARCH PROJECTS CONDUCTED IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Linguistic Media Research. Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Makarova. 2019–2022.

The aim is to investigate peculiarities of different language functioning and linguistic behaviour of communication participants in the area of contemporary media.

Main publications:

Korostenskienė, J. The hit or miss guesswork figuring the deictic centre of the Russian patronymic. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. 2020, 8: 99–118.

Korostenskienė, J., Belovodskaja, A. Address terms among the Russian ethnic minority in Lithuania. Offline and Online Communication: an Emerging New Identity. Studies of Transition States and Societies. 2020, 12(2): 32–52.

Makarova, V., Shulus, A. Means of creating the media image of a candidate to the post of mayor through contextual argumentation (on the materials of the texts about the 2018–2019 elections in Moscow, Vilnius and Belgrade). Respectus Philologicus. 2020, 37(42): 22–34.

International Research Projects

Problemorientierter Soft CLIL Ansatz fur nichtenglischen FS-Unterricht (No. 2018-1-SK01-KA201-046316). 2019–2021. Participant: Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Makarova.

National Research Projects

Development of General Education Research, Assessment and Monitoring System: Assessment of Student Achievement (09.2.1-ESFA-V-706-02-0001). National Agency for Education, Lithuania. 2019–2021. Participant: H. Shipman.

Research Council of Lithuania. Lithuanian Proverbs and Sayings: Their Collection, Research and Dissemination. 2018–2021. Participant: I. Snukiškienė.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Saint Petersburg State University (Russia)
Turiba University (Latvia)
University of Southern California (USA)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Bikelienė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA);
  • member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA), http://www.lkpa.vdu.lt/apie-lkpa/;
  • member of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment;
  • member of the International Phonetic Association;
  • member of the Learner Corpus Association;
  • deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Verbum, http://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/verbum/about/editorialTeam.

Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Chodzkienė –

  • member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA), http://www.lkpa.vdu.lt/apie-lkpa/;
  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (LAKMA);
  • member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE);
  • editorial board member of the journal Ogrody Nauk i Sztuk (Poland);
  • member of the programme committee of annual international conferences Education and New Development (END).

Prof. Dr J. Korostenskienė –

  • editorial board member of the journal Studies About Languages / Kalbų studijos, https://kalbos.ktu.lt/index.php/KStud/about/editorialTeam;
  • member of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL / GCLA);
  • member of the International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ISFLA);
  • member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA), http://www.lkpa.vdu.lt/apie-lkpa/;
  • member of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA).

Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Makarova –

Assist. Prof. Dr L. Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė –

N. Petrauskienė –

  • member of the Association Russian Cultural Centre.

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Bikelienė, L., Korostenskienė, J. Plenary presentation: Teaching Professional writing: bringing innovation through tradition and corpora. 24th International Conference Contemporary Issues of Germanic Philology and Language Teaching Methods. Brest State A.S. Pushkin University, Belarus. 28 February 2020.
  • Petrauskienė, N. Святая равноапостольная Мария Магдалина – небесная покровительница Марии Алексеевны Философовой: из истории строительства домовой церкви св. вмц. Варвары в Маркутье. 9th international conference Readings of Filosofovs: Historical-Cultural Heritage of Filosofovs. Bežanic, Pskov, Russia. 28 February 2020.
  • Petrauskienė, N. Experience of inclusive education: local practice / Inkliuzinio ugdymo patirtis: lokalinės praktikos. International Festival of Inclusive Education. Moscow, Russia. 14–15 October 2020.
  • Kirejeva, J. The conceptualisation of negative emotions through the use of figurative language. UK Cognitive Linguistic Conference, University of Birmingham. 27–29 July 2020. https://www.ukclc2020.com.

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Chodzkienė, L. – participant of the international collaborative project World Universities' Response to COVID-19: Remote Online Language-Teaching. Coordinator: Dr Nebojša Radič, Cambridge University Language Centre. 2020–2021.
  • Petrauskienė, N. - member of National Minority Council at the Department of Ethnic Minorities (LRV).

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Makarova, V. Lecture-seminar for teachers Critical analysis of feature film as a component of media and information literacy competence. Within the framework of the joint seminar Improvement of MIR competencies for teachers, 27 October 2020.
  • Korostenskienė, J. Lecture-seminar for teachers Media and literacy.Within the framework of the joint seminar Improvement of MIR competencies for teachers, 26 October 2020.
  • Translation into English. P. Gylys. 2018. Anti-ekonomika (330 p.). Gylys, P. 2020 The Anti-Economy — https://amzn.to/2K6xDAM Translated by H. Shipman and V. Gricius.

 

INSTITUTE FOR THE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF THE BALTIC

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 219 3248
https://www.flf.vu.lt/institutai/bkki
Director - Assoc. Prof. Dr Erika Sausverde
E-mail:

DEPARTMENT OF BALTIC STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7211
e-mail: ,
Head – Prof. Dr Daiva Sinkevičiūtė

STAFF

Professors: Dr B. Jasiūnaitė, Dr J. Pakerys, Dr D. Sinkevičiūtė, Dr Habil. B. Stundžia.
Associate professors: Dr Habil. G. F. Juzala-Deprati, Dr B. Kabašinskaitė, Dr G. Miškinienė (part-time), Dr V. Rinkevičius, Dr M. K. Villanueva Svensson.
Assistant professors: Dr E. Kazakėnaitė (part-time), Dr A. Navickaitė-Klišauskienė, Dr E. Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė.
Teaching assistant: G. Junčytė.
Researcher: Dr G. Kavaliūnaitė-Holvoet (part-time).
Doctoral students: S. Lukšaitė, D. Plachovičiūtė, D. Straižytė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Baltic and related languages and cultures
Ethnology and ethnolinguistics
Derivational and etymological analysis of compounds
Verb in the Baltic languages
Word formation
Topological relations of space in the Baltic languages
Linguistic/philological onomastic analysis
Accentology of the Baltic languages

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Studies of Baltic Languages, Texts and Cultures. Project coordinator: Dr Habil. B. Stundžia. 2019–2021.

Main publications:

Pakerys, J. Derivational networks in Lithuanian. In: L. Körtvélyessy, A. Bagasheva & P. Štekauer (Eds.). Derivational Networks across Languages. De Gruyter Mouton. 2020, 333–346.

Villanueva Svensson, M. The Balto-Slavic ā-aorist. In: Transactions of the Philological Society. 2020, 118(3): 376–400.

Villanueva Svensson, M. Balto-Slavic Accentology, Auslautgesetze and the Baltic Secondary Local Cases. Baltistica. 2020, 55(1): 5–42.

International Research Projects

Lithuanian Academic Scheme for International Cooperation in Baltic Studies. Funded by EU Structural Funds. Project coordinator: Dr G. Kavaliūnaitė-Holvoet. 2017–2023.

While certain project activities requiring staff mobility were severely affected by the pandemic, the main activities, namely, long-term teaching of Lithuanian subjects at the centres of Baltic studies abroad, one-term studies of foreign undergraduates at Vilnius University, student practices at our partner institution Vytautas Magnus University, were continued; the two-week Lithuanian summer school and the Humboldt University in Berlin also took place.

The Baltic Verb: Grams, Categories and Domain. Funded by EU Structural Funds. MTEP 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0071. 2018–2021. Participant: Dr G. Kavaliūnaitė-Holvoet. https://www.flf.vu.lt/mokslas/projektai/esf#the-baltic-verb-grams-categories-domains

Main publication:

Holvoet, A., Kavaliūnaitė, G. & Brudzyński, P. The rise of the affixal reflexive in Baltic and its consequences: Morphology, syntax and semantics. Studies in the Voice Domain in Baltic and Its Neighbours = Baltic Linguistics. 2020, 11: 370–414.

National Research Projects

Lithuanian Accentual System: Origins and Historical Development. Funded by the Research Council of Lithuania. Project coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Rinkevičius. 2018–2021.

Origin and evolution of the acute in Baltic and Slavic. Funded by the Research Council of Lithuania. Project coordinator: Assoc. prof. Dr M. K. Villanueva Svensson. 2020–2022.

The aim of the project is to determine the development of the prosodic system from Indo-European to Balto-Slavic and then to the historical languages, with emphasis on acuteness.

Publishing volumes 54-56 of Baltistica, a journal on Baltic Linguistics. Funded by the Research Council of Lithuania. Project coordinator Prof. Dr Habil. B. Stundžia. 2019–2021. http://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/issue/current.

Topological Spatial Relations in the Baltic Languages. Post-doctoral research grant. Research Council of Lithuania. Dr E. Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė. 2017–2019.

Main publication:

Šķilters, J., Zariņa, L., Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė, E., Bērziņa, N., Apse, L. Topologic and geometric structure of spatial relations in Latvian: an experimental analysis of RCC. Baltic Journal of Modern Computing. 2020, 8(1): 92–125.

Other projects

Baltic Bridges. Funded by the Ministry of Education, Research and Sports of Lithuania. Project coordinator: Dr A. Navickaitė-Klišauskienė. 2020 (the project is postponed due to pandemic).

Optimisation of the Activity of the Lithuanian Department of the First Baltic Centre in India and Lecturership of Lithuanian Language and Culture II. Project coordinator: Dr G. Kavaliūnaitė – Holvoet. 2020.

At the Centre for Baltic Languages and Cultures at Dev Sanskriti University at Haridwar, India, subjects of specifically Lithuanian interest have been taught since 2018 (regional studies, Lithuanian history and culture, practical Lithuanian). In 2020, these subjects were taught by Morta Pilkaitė. During the spring term, she was based at Haridvar, while during the autumn term she taught remotely from Lithuania.

Strengthening the Educational Activities of the Lithuanian Studies Center of the University of Latvia. Project coordinator: Dr E. Kazakėnaitė. 2020 (the project is postponed due to the pandemic).

To Lithuania. Project coordinator: Prof. Dr D. Sinkevičiūtė. 2020.

The aim of the project is to establish a cooperative scholarly network between the University of Cracow and Vilnius University. In 2020, four online workshops were organised where scholars from Vilnius University taught a given topic to Cracow students of Lithuanian and Cracow colleagues interested in the Lithuanian language and culture.

Names with suffix -ij- of Citizens of the Republic of Lithuania: Borrowing and Word-formation Tendencies. Funded by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language. Project coordinator: Prof. Dr D. Sinkevičiūtė. 2018–2020.

The aim of the project is to research Lithuanian borrowed names with the suffix -ij- and their development. In 2020, the origin of some of the names was investigated and their grammatical analysis was performed.

Educational Activities of Latvian Studies. Funded by the Latvian Language Agency. Project coordinator: Dr A. Navickaitė-Klišauskienė. 2020.

The aim of the project is to promote studies of the Latvian language and culture in Vilnius University.

Baltic Academy. Funded by the Latvian Language Agency. Project coordinator: Dr E. Kazakėnaitė. 2020.

The project has been implemented since 2015 and is renewable every year. The aim is to promote the Latvian language and culture in Lithuania among secondary school students. It includes lectures, Latvian language courses and other activities. For more see: https://www.facebook.com/Ba%CC%81lt%C5%B3-akademija-729979840440240

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Latvian language Agency (Latvia)
University of Latvia (Latvia)
State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Jagiellonian University of Krakow (Poland)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Dr G. Kavaliūnaitė-Holvoet –

Prof. Dr B. Jasiūnaitė –

G. Junčytė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr Habil. G. Juzala –

Assoc Prof. Dr B. Kabašinskaitė –

Dr E. Kazakėnaitė –

  • member of DHN (Digital Humanities in the Nordic countries), a branch of EADH (Digital Humanities in the Nordic countries), http://dig-hum-nord.eu/.

Assoc. Prof. Dr G. Miškinienė –

Prof. Dr J. Pakerys –

Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Rinkevičius –

Prof. Dr D. Sinkevičiūtė –

Prof. Dr Habil. B. Stundžia –

Assoc. Prof. Dr M. Villanueva Svensson –

Dr E. Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė –

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES

MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES


DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN PHILOLOGY

5 Universiteto, LT-01513, Vilnius
Tel. 268 7230
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Vaiva Žeimantienė
E-mail:

STAFF

Associate professors: Dr A. Burov, Dr E. Kontutytė, Dr V. Masiulionytė, Dr L. Plaušinaitytė, Dr D. Šileikaitė-Kaishauri, Dr S. Volungevičienė, Dr V. Žeimantienė, Dr D. Babušytė (part-time).
Assistant professors: Dr J. Daunorienė, Dr D. Katinas, Dr V. Katinienė, Dr A. Mionskowski (DAAD).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Contrastive linguistics of German and Lithuanian
Genre analysis, academic discourse
Grammatical, semantic and stylistics particularities of German and Lithuanian and their integration into the teaching process and lexicographic practice
History of the German language
German literature
Literature and epistemology (economics, law, politics)

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Studies in the Societies, Languages and Cultures of Northern and Central Europe. Dr Ieva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė. 2019–2022.

Main publications:

Haß, U., Žeimantienė, V., Kontutytė, E. Hg. 2020. Germanistik für den Beruf. Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien: Peter Lang (Forum Angewandte Linguistik F. A. L. 64).

Katinienė, V. “They” and “I”: Between Fantasy and Reality. Lituanus. 2020, 66(4): 30–40.

Šileikaitė-Kaishauri, D., V. Masiulionytė, V. 2020. Germanistikstudium an der Universität Vilnius und Berufsbilder litauischer Germanist(inn)en. Untersuchung zum beruflichen Verbleib der Absolvent(inn)en 2002–2018. Berlin u. a.: Peter Lang.

Synchronic and Diachronic Research into Phonological, Lexical and Grammatical Systems of the Lithuanian Language. Assoc. Prof. V. Zubaitienė. 2019–2022.

Main publications:

Plaušinaitytė, L. Die Quellen der litauischen Sprichwörter in Constant von Wurzbachs Sammlung Die Sprichwörter der Polen historisch erläutert mit Hinblick auf die eigenthümlichsten der Lithauer… (Wien 1852). In Achthundert Jahre Deutsch-Baltischer Beziehungen. Kulturelle Wechselwirkung im baltischen Sprachraum, hrsg. von H. Bichlmeier und J. Gelumbeckaitė, Hamburg: Baar. 2020, 147–170. (Schriftenreihe der Gesellschaft für Baltische Studien 3).

Zubaitienė, V., Plaušinaitytė, L., Volungevičienė, S., Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė, G., Gudavičienė, E., Pribušauskaitė, J., Plaušinaitis, J. 2020. Akademinių frazių sąvadas [Lithuanian Academic Phrasebank]. Vilnius University.

Zubaitienė V., Gudavičienė, E., Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė, G., Plaušinaitytė, L., Volungevičienė, S. 2020. Studentų darbų fraziškumas [Formulaicity in students’ papers]. Monograph. Vilnius University Press.

Lexicon and Discourse: Semantics, Idiomaticity, Vocabulary. Prof. I.Šeškauskienė. 2019–2022.

Main publication:

Masiulionytė, V. Formeln, Wortspiele, Verse und mehr: Wo Humorforschung Phraseologie trifft. Kalbotyra. 2020, 73: 104–131.

International Research Projects

Projects Supported by the EU Funds

The Baltic Verb: Grams, Categories and Domain. MTEP 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0071. 2018–2021. Funded by the European Social Fund. Participant: Dr V. Žeimantienė.
Project homepage: https://www.flf.vu.lt/mokslas/projektai/esf#the-baltic-verb-grams-categories-domains

Main publication:

Nau, N., Spraunienė, B., Žeimantienė, V. The Passive Family in Baltic. Baltic Linguistics 11: Studies in the Voice Domain in Baltic and Its Neighbours (thematic issue). 2020, 27–128.

Problem Oriented Soft CLIL Approach for LOTE. Erasmus+ project. Project coordinator: Assist. Prof. Dr. D. Katinas. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Šileikaitė-Kaishauri, Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Volungevičienė. 2018–2020. http://www.erasmusplus.sk/index.php?sw=33&menu=14&proj=2018-1-SK01-KA201-046316

International Project Unistart Deutsch@NBL. Coordinator in Lithuania: A. Mionskowski. 2019–2029. Partner at VU: Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Volungevičienė. https://www.unistart-deutsch.sdu.dk/teilnehmende-institutionen/

Digital Ressources of Lithuanian Language: Lithuanian – German – Lithuanian Internet Dictionary (LiVoLi). Foundation for the Promotion of Science of the University of Vilnius. Project coordinator: L. Plaušinaitytė. Participant: Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Volungevičienė. June 2020–May 2023.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Ventspils University of Applied Sciences (Latvia)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Asoc. Prof. Dr D. Babušytė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Burov –

  • member of the Austrian Association for German Studies.

Dr J. Daunorienė –

  • member of the Austrian Association for German Studies;
  • member of Matthias-Kramer-Society (Matthias-Kramer-Gesellschaft).

Dr D. Katinas –

Dr V. Katinienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Kontutytė –

Dr A. Mionskowski –

  • editorial board member of the Journal for Studies in German Language and Literature Schnittstelle Germanistik (Volumes 1–3, 2021–2022);
  • Co-editor of the Journal of the Lithuanian German Language Teachers Association Miteinander (Volumes 59, 60 and 61), https://www.ldv.lt/index.php/ldv/verbandszeitschrift;
  • member of the Hugo von Hofmannsthal Society (Hugo von Hofmannsthal-Gesellschaft);
  • member of the Karl Hofer Society (Karl Hofer Gesellschaft).

Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Plaušinaitytė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Šileikaitė-Kaishauri –

Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Volungevičienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Žeimantienė –

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Burov - coordinator of the KAAD-East-Europe-Programme in Lithuania; board member of the Lithuanian DAAD Club (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), http://www.daad-klubas.lt/.
  • Dr D. Katinas - chairperson of the Lithuanian DAAD Club (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), http://www.daad-klubas.lt/ ; chairperson of the Lithuanian division of German Language Society (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache), https://gfds.de/zweige/zweige-im-in-und-ausland/.
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Kontutytė - member of the Council of the Lithuanian National German Language Olympiad.

MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Plaušinaitytė, L., Pribušauskaitė, J., Volungevičienė, S., Zubaitienė, V. Akademinių frazių sąvadas: pagalba rašantiems baigiamuosius darbus. Gimtoji kalba. 2020, 3: 9–14.
  • Katinas, D., Šileikaitė-Kaishauri, D. PROBSOFTCLIL-Projekt: Nachhaltiger Tourismus, finanzielle Allgemeinbildung und realistische Mathematik im DaF-Unterricht. Miteinander. Informationen des Litauischen Deutschlehrerverbands. 2020, 2(61): 19–21.
  • Masiulionytė, V., Šileikaitė-Kaishauri, D. Germanistik und Deutsch an der Universität Vilnius: Studienmöglichkeiten und Berufsperspektiven. Miteinander. Informationen des Litauischen Deutschlehrerverbands. 2020, 2(61): 28–31.

 

DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN PHILOLOGY

5 Universiteto, 01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7224, 268 7225
E-mails: ,
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Pavel Lavrinec

STAFF

Professors: Dr Habil. E. Lassan (affiliated), Dr A. Lichačiova, Dr G. Michailova.
Associate professors: Dr A. Belovodskaja, Dr D. Beržaitė, Dr L. Garbul, Dr J. Konickaja, Dr P. Lavrinec.
Assistant professor: Dr J.Snežko.
Lecturers: Dr N. Kapočė, R. Čičinskaitė, V. Stankevičiūtė.
Doctoral students: T. Čenys, A. S. Ivinskaja, A. Makarova, A. Samoilenko-Šalkinė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

History of interaction of Russian and Lithuanian literature
Interface of Lithuanian, Russian and other Slavonic literatures and cultures
Styles, genres and methods of interpretation of Russian literature
Russian literary history of the 20th century
Language in the social context
Links between language, culture and identity
The Russian language in Lithuania
Cognitive linguistics and cognitive aspects of the discourse of the Internet
Linguistic semantics and pragmatics
Media linguistics
Acquisition of Russian as L1 and L2
Lithuanian-Slavonic (Russian) contrastive linguistics
Historical lexicology of Russian and Eastern Slavic languages
17th century Polish-Russian linguistic contacts

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Modern Studies of the Russian Language and Literature in the Context of Different Cultures. Assoc. Prof. Dr P. Lavrinec. 2018–2022.

Main publications:

Belovodskaja, A. Дискурсное изучение сетей [Discourse Studies of Networks]. Медиалингвистика славянских стран: монография [Medialinguistics of Slavic Countries: Monograph]. L. Duskaeva, L. Ivanova (Eds). Moscow: Flinta. 2020, 251–286.

Lassan, E. Об истории как тексте, метафорах истории и следствиях из них. Политическая лингвистика. 2020, 5(83): 201–220.

Michailova, G. О некоторых особенностях репрезентации Осипа Мандельштама в воспоминаниях Анны Ахматовой [On Some Features of Osip Mandelstam’s Representation in the Memories by Anna Akhmatova]. Literatūra: Rusistica Vilnensis. 2020, 62(2): 138–153.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Catholic University in Ružomberok (Slovakia)
East Slavonic Institute, Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland)
European University Viadrina, Frankfurt am Oder (Germany)
Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw (Poland)
Institute of Russian and Eastern Studies, University of Gdańsk (Poland)
Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation)
Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V. P. Astaf’ev (Russian Federation)
Ljubljana University (Slovenia)
Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian Federation)
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Saint Petersburg State University (Russian Federation)
Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don (Russian Federation)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Belovodskaja –

Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Beržaitė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Comparative Literature.

Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Garbul –

  • member of the International Association of Belarusian Studies.

Assoc. Prof. Dr J. Konickaja –

Affil. Prof. Dr Habil. E. Lassan –

Prof. A. Lichačiova –

Prof. G. Michailova –

Assoc. Prof. P. Lavrinec –

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Belovodskaja, A. Этика комического в развлекательных сетевых комьюнити [The ethics of the comic content in humorous online communities]. Science Media International Forum (SMIF-2020), St. Petersburg, 9–12 November 2020. https://smif.spbu.ru/about/programma.html.
  • Garbul, L. О лексических заимствованиях из письменности Великого княжества Литовского в русском приказном языке XVII века [On lexical borrowings from the writing of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Russian clerical language of the 17th century]. At the 2nd International Scientific Congress of Belarusian Culture [ІІ Международный научный конгресс белорусской культуры]. Online conference (Zoom platform). State Scientific Institution Center for the Belarusian culture, language and literature researches of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Minsk. 10 September 2020.
  • Lichačiova, A. Linguistic attitudes of new Russian-speaking immigrants and prospects for the Russian language in Lithuania. Horizons of modern Russian studies, Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Moscow. 30–31 January 2020. http://www.pushkin.institute/science/konferencii/gorizontyrusistiki/Gorizonty_rusistiki_2020_programma_konferencii.pdf .
  • Michailova, G. Ivan Bunin’s story “The Gentleman from San Francisco”: how the title conveys layers of meaning. 16th International Scientific Conference “Languages and cultures in the modern world. I. A. Bunin: Russian and National Literatures”. Online conference (Zoom platform). Russian New University, Moscow City University (MGPU), Paneuropean University “Apeiron”, Yerevan State University of Languages and Social Sciences. Moscow, 26 September 2020.

MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

 

CENTRE FOR GENERAL LINGUISTICS

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel.: 268 7235
e-mail:
Head – Prof. Habil. Dr Axel Holvoet

STAFF

Professor: Dr Habil. A. Holvoet.
Assistant professor: Dr V. Panov
Researchers: Dr P. Arkadiev, Dr P. Brudzyński, Dr A. Daugavet, Dr G. Kavaliūnaitė-Holvoet, Dr K. Kozhanov, Dr L. Lindström, Dr N. Nau, Dr B. Spraunienė, Dr V.Žeimantienė.
Post-doctoral fellow: Dr A. Cremers
Doctoral students: A. Laugalienė, D. K. Kapkanaitė, R.Trakymaitė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Grammatical structure of languages, viewed in a cross-linguistic or areal-typological context
Its interaction with the lexicon and with discourse pragmatics
Baltic languages in their interaction with the neighbouring Slavonic and Finnic languages and the languages of Eurasia
Grammatical voice
Case and grammatical relations
Mood and modality
Tense and aspect
Inflectional classes
Discourse particles

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Grammar and Semantics. Prof. Dr Habil. A. Holvoet. 2019–2021.

Main publications:

Holvoet, A. The Middle Voice in Baltic [= Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic]. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2020, 5: xvii, 250 p.

Holvoet, A. The dual nature of irrealis in complementation. Studies in Language. 2020, 44.1: 166–191.

Holvoet, A. Sources and pathways for non-directive imperatives. Linguistics. 2020, 58.2: 333–362.

International Research Projects

Post-doctoral internship European Union Social Fund (No 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-02-0010). Dr V. Panov.

Main publications:

Panov, V. The marking of uncontroversial information in Europe: presenting the enimitive. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. 2020, 52(1): 1–44.

Panov, V. Final particles in Asia: Establishing an areal feature. Linguistic Typology. 2020, 24(1): 13–70.

Panov, V. Exploring the asymmetric coding of autobenefactive in Lithuanian and Beyond. Studies in the Voice Domain in Baltic and Its Neighbours = Baltic Linguistics. 2020, 11: 343–371.

The Baltic Verb: Grams, Categories and Domains. European Union Social Fund (No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0071). Prof. Dr Habil. A. Holvoet. https://www.flf.vu.lt/mokslas/projektai/esf#the-baltic-verb-grams-categories-domains .

Main publications:

Holvoet, A. The voice domain in Baltic and its neighbours: An introduction. Studies in the Voice Domain in Baltic and Its Neighbours = Baltic Linguistics. 2020, 11: 7–25.

Holvoet, A. Lithuanian intensive causatives and their history. Studies in the Voice Domain in Baltic and Its Neighbours = Baltic Linguistics. 2020, 11: 415–437.

Holvoet, A., Daugavet, A. Antipassive reflexive constructions in Latvian: A corpus-based analysis. Studies in the Voice Domain in Baltic and Its Neighbours = Baltic Linguistics. 2020, 11: 241–290.

Holvoet, A., Daugavet, A. The facilitative middle in Baltic and North Slavonic: An overview of its variation. Studies in the Voice Domain in Baltic and Its Neighbours =Baltic Linguistics. 2020, 11: 291–342.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

University of Stockholm, Institutionen för lingvistik (Sweden)
Tartu University, Institute for Estonian and General Linguistics (Estonia)
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Institute of Linguistics (Poland)
Warsaw University, Faculty of Polish Studies, Chair of General and Baltic Linguistics (Poland)
Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic Studies & Institute of Linguistics (Russian Federation)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr Habil. A. Holvoet –

  • main organiser of the 17th Salos Summer School of Linguistics (Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Septima Decima). Salos Manor (Rokiškis reagon), 26 July–01 August 2020, http://www.academiasalensis.org/en/;
  • organiser of the workshop New Spotlights on the TAME Domain in Baltic and Its Neighbours, Vilnius University, in the framework of the project The Baltic Verb: Grams, Categories and Domains, 23–24 October 2020, https://www.flf.vu.lt/en/faculty/news/4365-bkkiworkshop;
  • member of Academia Europaea;
  • member of Societas Linguistica Europaea;
  • managing editor of the international journal Baltic Linguistics (Warsaw University), https://www.journals.polon.uw.edu.pl/index.php/bl;
  • editorial board member of the journals Linguistica; Copernicana (Toruń), Balto-slavjanskie issledovanija (Moscow).

Dr P. Arkadiev –

  • member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE);
  • member of Association of Linguistic Typology.


CENTRE FOR POLISH STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel.: 268 72 37, 268 72 36
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Miroslav Davlevič
e-mail:

STAFF

Professor: Dr K. Rutkovska.
Associate professors: Dr M. Davlevič, Dr V. Ušinskienė, Dr I. Fedorovič.
Assistant professors: Dr T. Dalecka, Dr R. Jakubėnas.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Polish linguistics and literature
History of interaction of Polish and Lithuanian literatures and cultures
Textual poetics and its relations to philosophical, aesthetical, sociological systems
Polish language in Lithuania
Polish manuscript tradition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Acquisition of Polish L1 and L2
Bilingualism and multilingualism in Lithuania
Sociolinguistics
Ethno-linguistics
Etymology
Lexicography
Translation

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects supported by the University Budget

Studies in the Societies, Languages and Cultures of Northern and Central Europe. Dr Ieva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė. 2019–2022.

Main publications:

Fedorovič, I., Geben, K. Idiolekt Wojciecha Piotrowicza: Słownictwo prozy autobiograficznej [The Idiolect of Wojciech Piotrowicz. A Vocabulary of Autobiographical Prose]. Slavistica Vilnensis. 2020, 65(1): 87–102.

Rutkovska, K. Švc. Mergelės Marijos kulto atspindžiai Konstantino Sirvydo „Punktuose sakymu” [Reflections of the Cult of the Holy Virgin Mary in Konstantinas Sirvydas’s Punktai sakymų]. Senoji Lietuvos literatūra. 2020. 49: 1–29, http://www.llti.lt/lt/senoji_LT_literatura.

Ušinskienė, V. Semantics of Lithuanian Baltas and Polish Biały: An Attempt at a Contrastive Analysis. Slavistica Vilnensis. 2020, 65(1): 59–71, https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/slavisticavilnensis/article/view/18465/18923.

International Projects

Textological Research of Ancient Writings: Manuscript Poetic Works of Francisek D. Kniaznin. Prof. Dr K. Rutkovska. No 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-19-0206.

The aim of the project is to set up a new research toolkit on the basis of new editorial methods, elaborating the first modern edition of Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin’s lyrical poems.The project fits in a larger undertaking aimed at the preparation of all works by Kniaźnin (12 books of lyrical poems) on the basis of the manuscript, in order to publish them as part of the Biblioteka Pisarzy Polskiego Oświecenia [Library of the Writers of Polish Enlightenment] series.

Tłumacze arcydzieł literatury w odrodzonej Rzeczpospolitej. Cyfrowy słownik biobibliograficzny [Translators of literary masterpieces in the Reborn Poland. Digital Bibliographic Dictionary] (No 0425/NPRH7/H30/86/2019) 2019–2024. Participants: Dr I. Fedorovič and Dr T. Dalecka

National Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Linguistic Painting of GOD in Jacob Vujek’s Little Postilla (1590) and Mikalojus Daukša’s Postilla (1599) [Kalbinis DIEVO paveikslas Jokūbo Vujeko "Mažojoje postilėje"(1590) ir Mikalojaus Daukšos "Postilėje" (1599)] (No 09.3.3.-LMT-K-712-22-0018). EU Social Fund. Prof. Dr K. Rutkovska. 2020–2021.

The aim of the project is to explore the principles of God's conceptualization in Jacob Vujek's Little Postilla (1590), originally written in Polish, and translated into Lithuanian by Mikalojus Daukša in 1599.

Other projects

Values in Lithuanian and Polish Worldview 2 [Vertybės lenkų ir lietuvių pasaulėvaizdyje II. Liaudiškasis, tautinis, daugiatautis ir daugiakultūris paveldas] (01-009-01-02-14). Prof. Dr K. Rutkovska. Lithuanian Council for Culture. International Seminar on Cognitive Ethnolinguistics. Vilnius University, 23–24 September 2020. In cooperation with the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin.

Main publication:

Rutkovska, K., Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska, S. (Eds). 2020. Vertybės lietuvių ir lenkų kalbų pasaulėvaizdyje (Wartości w językowym obrazie świata litwinów i polaków) [Values in Lithuanian and Polish Worldview 1]. Vilnius University Press.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Warsaw University (Poland)
Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland)
Jagiellonian University (Poland)
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin (Poland)
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń (Poland)
Humboldt Universitӓt zu Berlin (Germany)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. M. Davlevič –

Assoc. Prof. I. Fedorovič –

Assist. R. Jakubėnas –

Prof. K. Rutkovska –

Assoc. Prof. V. Ušinskienė–

MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES


CENTRE FOR SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7235, 268 7234
e-mails: ,
Head – Assist. Prof. Dr Giedrius Tamaševičius

STAFF

Professors: Dr S. Pivoras (part-time), Dr L. Vaicekauskienė.
Associate professors: Dr E. Sausverde, Dr I. Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė.
Assistant professors: Dr R. Baranauskienė, Dr R. Čičirkaitė (part-time, Dr A. Mendelytė, Dr B. Spraunienė, Dr G. Tamaševičius, Dr V. Vukotič (part-time), J. Kumetaitienė (part-time).
Teaching assistants: A. Laugalienė, E. Jankauskaitė, D. Urbonaitė (all part-time).
Lecturers: Dr N. Bulla, V. Groven, J. Riseth, M. Hjortfors, S. S. Ojaniemi, E. Slott, A. Braškytė, R. Rudienė, R. Dambrauskaitė-Muralienė, E. Išganaitytė, K. Karčiauskienė, E. Kmitaitė, J. Petronytė, A. Petrauskaitė; M. Schultz Rasmussen (all part-time).
Doctoral students: D. Pinkevičienė, R. Palubinskienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Contrastive, General, Scandinavian and Finno-Ugrian linguistics
Language contacts
Lexicography
Sociolinguistics and language ideologies
Grammar of Modern Scandinavian and Lithuanian languages
Studies in modern Scandinavian literature
Old Norse studies
Film studies
Lithuanian-Scandinavian historical and cultural contacts

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Studies in the Societies, Languages and Cultures of Northern and Central Europe. Dr Ieva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė. 2019–2022.

Main publications:

Mendelytė, A. Mapping film-world relations to reality: a new conceptual cartography. The Real of Reality: Philosophy of Film and the Contemporary Realist Turn. Christine Reeh-Peters, Stefan Schmidt, Peter Weibel (Eds.). Leiden, Boston: Brill. 2020.

Sausverde, Ē. A Case of teaching modern Latvian. Baltu filoloģija. 2020, 29(1): 135–140.

Projects Supported by the EU Funds

Grammar and Semantics. Prof. Dr Axel Holvoet.

The Baltic Verb: Grams, Categories and Domain. European Social Fund. MTEP 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0071. Prof. Dr A. Holvoet. January 2018–December 2021. Participants: Dr B. Spraunienė and A. Laugalienė. https://www.flf.vu.lt/mokslas/projektai/esf#the-baltic-verb-grams-categories-domains

Main publications:

Nau, N., Spraunienė, B., Žeimantienė, V. The Passive Family in Baltic. Baltic Linguistics 11: Studies in the Voice Domain in Baltic and Its Neighbours (thematic issue). 2020, 27–128.

Lindström, L., Nau, N., Spraunienė, B., Laugalienė, A. Impersonal constructions with personal reference. Referents of deleted actors in Baltic and Estonian. Baltic Linguistics 11: Studies in the Voice Domain in Baltic and Its Neighbours (thematic issue). 2020, 129–213.

Other projects

Lithuanian Exile in Iceland: Explorations of Teodoras Bieliackinas’ (1907–1947) Creative Legacy. Dr I. Steponaviūtė-Aleksiejūnienė. National Lithuanian Studies Development Programme for 2016–2024.

The aim of the project is to study Bieliackinas’ legacy (manuscripts, typescripts, other documents) and publish them in 2021.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

The Office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Lithuania
Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education (DIKU)
The Swedish Institute (SI) (Sweded)
Ministry of Higher Education and Science (UFM) (Denmark)
Finnish National Agency for Education (Finland)
Departments of Scandinavian (Nordic) Studies and related studies at (but not limited to):
Copenhagen University, Stockholm University, Oslo University, Bergen University, Aarhus University, Budapest University, Prague University, Humboldt Universitӓt zu Berlin, Poznan University, Gdansk University

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Dr R. Baranauskienė –

Dr A. Mendelytė –

  • member of Örebro University researchers’ network “Film och visuell kommunikation”.

Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Sausverde –

Dr B. Spraunienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr I. Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė –

  • editor-in-Chief of the editorial board of Scandinavistica Vilnensis series, https://www.journals.vu.lt/scandinavistica;
  • President of International Association for Scandinavian Studies (IASS), https://csspublications.net/iass-home;
  • member of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies (SASS), https://scandinavianstudy.org/;
  • participant in the international researchers’ network New Geographies of Scandinavian Studies, funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research;
  • board member of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM).

Dr G. Tamaševičius –

  • member of the Association of Applied Linguistics of Lithuania (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt;
  • member of the international research network Standard Language Ideology in Contemporary Europe (SLICE), http://lanchart.hum.ku.dk/research/slice/.

Prof. Dr L. Vaicekauskienė –

  • advisory board member for international database Lituanistika at the Research Council of Lithuania;
  • board member of the Association of Applied Linguistics of Lithuania (LITAKA), http://litaka.lt/en/;
  • editorial board member of the journal Taikomoji kalbotyra, www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt;
  • member of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), http://www.eataw.eu/home.html;
  • member of the International Association for World Englishes(IAWE), http://www.iaweworks.org/;
  • member of an international research network Standard Language Ideology in Contemporary Europe (SLICE), http://lanchart.hum.ku.dk/research/slice/.

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Assoc. Prof. Erika Sausverde - member of the Board of Sweden-Lithuania Cooperation Fund, https://swelitfund.org/;
  • Prof. Loreta Vaicekauskienė - member of the executive group for National Lithuanian Studies Development Programme for 2016–2024.

MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Prof. Loreta Vaicekauskienė delivered a series of lectures „Is it possible to play with language? Really so!" [„Ar su kalba galima žaisti? Tikrai taip!“] for teachers and school students in different schools: Vilnius International Meridian School, 6th grade, 21 September 2020; Klaipėda Vydūnas High school, 8th grade; Kėdainiai language school, 10th grade, 15 Decmeber 2020
  • Prof. Loreta Vaicekauskienė participated at the final session discussion at Conference Signals 2020, 25 November 2020, organised by Lithuanian Supreme Audit Institution, http://www.signals.lt/programa
  • Prof. Loreta Vaicekauskienė gave an interview to Darius Ivancov, podcast Postmodernas #4 Are we really not able to talk? [Ar mes tikrai nemokame kalbėti?], 28 May 2020
  • Prof. Loreta Vaicekauskienė gave an interview to Marius Gailius „Žinių radijas“ [Knowledge radio] programme „Dienos klausimas“ [Question of the Day], 17 July 2020, https://www.ziniuradijas.lt/laidos/dienos-klausimas/ar-viesajame-paslaugu-sektoriuje-privaloma-svari-lietuviu-kalba?soundtrack=1

 

INSTITUTE FOR LITERARY, CULTURAL AND TRANSLATION STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT–01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 72 45
E-mail:
Director – Prof. Dr Nijolė Maskaliūnienė

DEPARTMENT OF LITHUANIAN LITERATURE

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 5 268 72 16
E-mail:
Head – Prof. Dr Brigita Speičytė

STAFF

Professors: Dr V. Daujotytė-Pakerienė (emerita), Dr D. Pociūtė, Dr B. Speičytė.
Associate professors: Dr D. Čiočytė, Dr D. Kuolys, Dr M. Kvietkauskas, Dr A. Peluritytė-Tikuišienė, Dr R. Tamošaitis, Dr R. Tūtlytė.
Assistant professors: Dr N. Klišienė, Dr S. Matulevičienė (part-time).
Doctoral students: E. Buožytė, A. Ambrazaitė, M. Andrulytė, G. Petuchovaitė-Majauskė, A.Strelcova-Kelpšė.

RESEARCH PROJECTS CONDUCTED IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Lithuanian Literature and Intercultural Research. Prof. B. Speičytė. 2019–2022.

Members of the Department carried out research in contemporary, modern and early modern Lithuanian literature and published 8 articles, 2 academic reviews, 2 publications of the academic sources, issued volume 61(1) of the journal Literatūra [Literature], dealing with literary theology, literary and religious culture and the literary expressions of cultural memory. In 2020, members of the Department delivered 8 presentations at the national and international conferences and seminars in Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and the United Kingdom, and 2 local presentations in academic seminars and dicussions of the Faculty of Philology (Vilnius University).

Main publications:

Peluritytė, A. History in Contemporary Lithuanian Literature. Current State of Literary Theory, Research and Criticism in (Non-Centric) National Cultures. Interlitteraria, University of Tartu Press. 2020, 25(2): 394–407.

Speičytė, B. Kultura pamięci: Pan Tadeusz Adama Mickiewicza [The Culture of Memory: Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz]. Światowa historia literatury polskiej: Interpretacje, Magdalena Popiel, Tomasz Bilczewski, Stanley Bill, eds. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. 2020, 179–198.

Kvietkauskas, M. Rezistencinė Vilniaus geto poezija: Avromo Suckeverio Dešimt eilėraščių [Resistance Poetry of the Vilna Ghetto: Ten Poems by Avrom Sutzkever]. Avrom Sutzkever. Dešimt eilėraščių/ Ten Poems/ Tsen Lider, Vilnius: Lietuvos Nacionalinė Martyno Mažvydo biblioteka. 2020, 47–74.

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Niccolò Buccella: prisoner of the inquisition, the ruler’s medic. Heterodoxy and medicine in the second half of the 16th c. Poland and Lithuania. (No. P-MIP-20-52). Prof. Dr D. Pociūtė. From March 2020.

Main publication:

Pociūtė, D. Nuo medicus philosophus prie medicus religiosus, arba kodėl Vilniaus jėzuitų akademijoje nebuvo medicinos studijų [From Medicus Philosophus to Medicus Religiosus, or why medical education was not installed at the Vilnius Jesuit Academy]. Problemos. Priedas. 2020, 120–129.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius (Lithuania)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland)
University of Bologna (Italy)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. V. Daujotytė (emerita) –

  • member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences;
  • member of the Lithuanian Writers Union;
  • editorial board member of the journal Literatūra (Literature).

Prof. Dr D. Pociūtė –

  • editor-in-chief of the publication series Monumenta Reformationis Lithuanicae;
  • editorial board member of the journal Literatūra (Literature);
  • member of the association Lituanistų sambūris (Assembly of Lithuanian Philologists).

Prof. Dr B. Speičytė –

  • editorial board member of the journal Colloquia (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore);
  • editorial board member of the journal Literatūra (Vilnius University);
  • editorial board member of the journal Wielogłos (Jagiellonian University in Kraków), https://www.ejournals.eu/Wieloglos/menu/260/;
  • member of the association Lituanistų sambūris (Assembly of Lithuanian Philologists);
  • member of organising committee of the national conference Trys laisvės dešimtmečiai: literatūra, kritika, skaitytojas [Three Decades of Freedom: Literature, Literary Criticism and the Reader] (Vilnius University).

Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Kuolys –

  • editorial board member of the journal Senoji Lietuvos literatūra (Early Modern Lithuanian Literature);
  • member of the academic council of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences;
  • member of the executive committee of the association Lituanistų sambūris (Assembly of Lithuanian Philologists);
  • programme committee member of the annual conference of the Santara-Šviesa Association;
  • member of organising committee of the national conference Trys laisvės dešimtmečiai: literatūra, kritika, skaitytojas [Three Decades of Freedom: Literature, Literary Criticism and the Reader] (Vilnius University).

Assoc. Prof. Dr M. Kvietkauskas –

  • editorial board member of the journal Acta Baltico-slavica, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw;
  • member of the academic council of the Czeslaw Milosz Research Center, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland;
  • member of the Lithuanian Writers Union.

Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Peluritytė-Tikuišienė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association;
  • member of the Lithuanian Writers Union;
  • advisory board member of the journal Studia Rossica Posnaniensia;
  • member of the organising committee of the national conference Trys laisvės dešimtmečiai: literatūra, kritika, skaitytojas [Three Decades of Freedom: Literature, Literary Criticism and the Reader] (Vilnius University).

Assoc. Prof. Dr R. Tamošaitis –

  • editorial board member of the literary journal of the Lithuanian literature and criticism Metai (Years);
  • member of Lithuanian Writers Union;
  • member of the association Lituanistų sambūris (Assembly of Lithuanian Philologists);
  • member of the organising committee of the national conference Trys laisvės dešimtmečiai: literatūra, kritika, skaitytojas [Three Decades of Freedom: Literature, Literary Criticism and the Reader] (Vilnius University).

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Kvietkauskas, M. Restoring the Collage of the Jewish Vilna. Embracing Its Jewish Legacy: Has Lithuania Reached a Milestone? The 9th Litvak Days in London (organised by the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the United Kingdom and University College London). London, 28 May 2020.
  • Kvietkauskas, M. Local Addresses in Holocaust Diaries: Reconstructing the Lifeworld of Young Jewish Diarists in Vilnius (keynote paper). Genealogies of Memory 2020: The Holocaust between Global and Local Perspectives. European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS), Jagiellonian University in Kraków. November 2020 (online).

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Čiočytė - expert of the Lithuanian Culture Council; expert of the Research Council of Lithuania.
  • Assist. Prof. Dr N. Klišienė - expert of the Lithuanian Culture Council; jury member of the 21st international university theatre forum Vivat, Theatrum, vivat! Vilnius, September 20–26, 2020
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Kuolys - member of the Education Council of Lithuania under the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania; coordination team member of research dissemination events “Lithuanian Studies Days” (VU FLF October 15–December 4, 2020)
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Peluritytė-Tikuišienė - jury member of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folkore prof. Algis Kalėda`s Prize (for research and translation); jury member of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore prof. Vytautas Kubilius` Prize (for research and criticism); member of the jury of the European Union Prize for Literature; expert of the National Culture and Art Prize
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr R. Tamošaitis - expert of the Lithuanian Culture Council; member of the Lithuanian Language and Literature Contest Commission; member and chairman of the evaluation commission of the Lithuanian Student Young Philologists Contest; diploma examiner and Second Native Speaker, IBIS – International Baccalaureate, Cardiff, Wells, UK; member of the Children's Literature Prize Commission at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports; lecturer at the National Student Academy
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr R. Tūtlytė - member of the committee for assessment and competition of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore; jury member of Justinas Marcinkevičius’ Prize for Literature of the Lithuanian Academy of Science and of prof. Algis Kalėda’s Prize (for research and translation) of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES


DEPARTMENT OF TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 72 45
E-mail:
www.vsk.flf.vu.lt
Head – Prof. Dr Nijolė Maskaliūnienė

STAFF

Professors: Dr N. Burkšaitienė, Dr J. Grigaliūnienė, Dr N. Maskaliūnienė.
Associate professor: Dr L. Černiuvienė.
Assistant professors: Dr D. Mankauskienė, Dr R. Užgiris.
Lecturers: Dr R. Klioštoraitytė, A. Dailidėnaitė (part-time), R. Darbutaitė (part-time), Ž. Pekūnas, N. Terleckaitė (part-time). A. Zolubienė, D. Valentinavičienė.
Senior researcher: Dr A. Ratkus.
Doctoral student: I. Tatolytė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Translation Studies
Theory and practice of translation
Literary translation
The (Gothic) Bible translation
Interpreting
Corpus studies for translation purposes
Theory and practice of lexicography and terminology
Integration of research results into the teaching process
Translator/interpreter training

RESEARCH PROJECTS CONDUCTED IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Meta-Cognitive Investigation of Translation as Bilingual Communication. Prof. Dr N. Maskaliūnienė. 2019–2022.

In 2020, the academic staff of the Department wrote articles, participated at conferences on literary translation, translation theory and translation training methodology. The Department issues the journal Vertimo studijos/ Translation Studies. In 2020, its volume 13 was published containing 8 research articles on different aspects of Translation Studies. https://www.journals.vu.lt/vertimo-studijos/issue/current.

Main publications:

Burkšaitienė, N. Self-assessment of ESP oral performance: A tool for learning and fostering learner awareness. Journal of Education, Culture and Society. 2020, 11(1): 146–162.

Garbatovič, B., Grigaliūnienė, J. Phrasal verbs in learner English: a corpus-based study of Lithuanian and Polish learners of English. Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture. 2020, 10: 36–53.

Carsten, S., Ciobanu, D. Mankauskiene, D. The challenge of evaluating open interpreter training resources: case of ORCIT. Interpreter and Translator Trainer. 2020. Published online: 23 Dec 2020.

Studies in the Bible Translation. Dr A. Ratkus.

The researcher investigates the structure and properties of Gothic, which come from the Gothic translation of the New Testament from Greek. A comparison of the Gothic Bible and different versions of the Greek New Testament gives a taxonomy of structural and linguistic differences. Studies in the Gothic Bible translation have already yielded a number of valuable findings.

Main publication:

Ratkus, A. The non-existence of the middle voice in Gothic: In search of a mirage. Transactions of the Philological Society. 2020, 118(2): 263–303.

International Projects

Prof. Jonė Grigaliūnienė participated in the project for the creation the Lithuanian element of The International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE), a corpus of essay writing by upper intermediate and advanced learners. The Lithuanian component of the corpus is a result of 10 years of collaborative work that was completed in 2020. Licences give access to the ICLEv3 web interface and a copy of the ICLE handbook published by Louvain University Press contains a detailed description of the corpus, an overview of the ELT situation in the countries of origin of the learners and a user’s guide to the web interface. A demo of the interface is available at https://corpora.uclouvain.be/cecl/icle/trial/.

Main publication:

Grigaliūnienė, J. The Status of English in Lithuania. International Corpus of Learner English (version 3), Granger S., M. Dupont, F. Meunier, H. Nacts, M. Paquot (eds). Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain. 2020, 217–223.

Machine Translation in the Lithuanian Translation Market: Postediting (1-11-2020–30-4-2021). Researcher: MA student Karolina Levanaitė, supervisor: Prof. Dr Nijolė Maskaliūnienė. [09.3.3.-LMT-K-712 Development of research competence of scientists, other researchers and students through practical research activities].

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

University of Leeds, Centre of Translation and Interpreting Studies (United Kingdom)
University College London (United Kingdom)
ISIT, Paris (France)
University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
University of Louvain (Belgium)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
University of Latvia (Latvia)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr N. Burkšaitienė –

Prof. Dr J. Grigaliūnienė –

Prof. Dr N. Maskaliūnienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Černiuvienė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators, www.llvs.lt/.

Dr R. Klioštoraitytė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators, www.llvs.lt/.

Dr A. Ratkus –

Dr D. Mankauskienė–

  • member of the European Society of Translation Studies, www.est-translation.org.

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Burkšaitienė, N. Understanding university students’ self-assessment of their ESP project work. 7th Education Culture Society Conference, University of Wroclaw, Poland, 11–12 September 2020. http://variograf.uni.wroc.pl/conference/ecs2020/
  • [invited lecture] Ratkus, A. Lexical variation and its implications: the case of the Gothic Bible. 10 November 2020, Department of German and Russian, Brigham Young University (USA).
  • [invited lecture] Ratkus, A. The age-old problem of Germanic “definite” adjectives: the counter-evidence of variation in Gothic and later Germanic. 26 November 2020, Faculty of Philology, University of Krakow (Poland).

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Assoc.Prof. L. Černiuvienė - expert member of the panel for the evaluation of film translations in the „Cinema Spring“ festival 2020; expert member of the panel for the Heronymus prize for best translators organised by Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators.
  • Dr R. Klioštoraitytė - expert of the Lithuanian Culture Council; expert member of the panel for the evaluation of film translations in the „Cinema Spring“ festival 2020; expert member of the panel for the Heronymus prize for best translators organised by Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators.
  • Prof. N. Maskaliūnienė - member of the Commission for the preparation of the Lithuanian Style Guide for translators at EU institutions (under the State Lithuanian Language Commission); member of a group of experts (chaired by I. Šeškauskienė) to draft a national regulation of study programmes in translation by the Lithuanian Centre for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

 

A. J. GREIMAS CENTRE FOR SEMIOTICS AND LITERARY THEORY

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7161
E-mail:
Head – Prof. Dr Irina Melnikova

STAFF

Professors: Dr Habil. K. Nastopka (emeritus), Dr A. Sverdiolas (emeritus), Dr P. V. Subačius, Dr I. Melnikova.
Associate professors: Dr B. Meržvinskytė, Dr N. Keršytė, Dr J. Levina.
Assistant professors: Dr J. Katkuvienė, Dr P. Jevsejevas.
Doctoral students: A. Kundrotaitė, A. Sireikis, A. Oržekauskienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Textual poetics and its relation to philosophical, aesthetic, sociological systems
Semiotic and hermeneutic text analysis
Terminology of literary criticism
Theory of the text, textual scholarship
Intertextuality, intermediality

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Semiotics and Humanities. Prof. Dr A. Sverdiolas. 2019–2022.

Development of methodological framework in contemporary theory of literature, art studies, philosophy and semiotics, aspectual analysis of literary texts and other types of discourses. The academic staff of A. J. Greimas Centre carried out research in semiotics, textual scholarship and intermediality. The staff members published a book and 7 research articles, prepared 1 publication of academic sources, edited the new volume (No 15) of the journal Semiotika, presented 2 papers at the international conferences.

Main publications:

Jevsejevas, P. Interlude. Loving nature. Actes Sémiotiques. 2020, 123, https://www.unilim.fr/actes-semiotiques/6437.

Melnikova, I. Nostalgia, adaptation and (textual) identity: Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Desire Trilogy’. Adaptation. 2020, 13(3): 378–396.

Melnikova, I. Intermedial references and signification: perception vs conception. Semiotica. 2020, 236(1/4): 231–250.

Nastopka, K. Įsiklausymai (straipsnių rinkinys) [Attentive listening: a collection of papers], Vilnius: LLTI Press. 2020.

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Microhistory of "The Voices of Spring": Genetic Reconstruction of Modernization of Lithuanian Texts (S-MOD-17-7). Prof. P. V. Subačius.

The project targets at a paradoxical gap: although much has been written about Maironis, critics usually heed to the final result of his work only. The author’s decision to re‐edit the sole collection of the verses The Voices of Spring go with the methodology of genetic criticism in the best way. The project aims to carry out a genetic reconstruction, to present the facsimiles, to publish the XML-encoded versions and commentaries employing a single critical archive, i.e. a comprehensive digital platform, synthesising academic and popular discourse functions.

Main publication:

Subačius, P. V. (editor-in-chief), Venckienė, J., Slavinska, M., Gervytė, D. Maironis. Pavasario balsai: Skaitmeninis archyvas ir gentinis kritinis leidimas (Maironis. The Voices of Spring: A Digital Archive and a Scholarly Edition). Vilnius University Press. 2020.

Research Council of Lithuania. Semiotic Analysis of poetic text: Works of Giedrė Kazlauskaitė. (1-11-2020–30-4-2021). Researcher: MA student K. Sadauskaitė. Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr J. Katkuvienė. [09.3.3.-LMT-K-712 Development of research competence of scientists, other researchers and students through practical research activities].

Research Council of Lithuania. Analysis of Lithuanian Song Festival (1-11-2020–30-4-2021). Researcher: MA student R. Stakauskaitė. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr N. Keršytė. [09.3.3-LMT-K-712 Development of research competence of scientists, other researchers and students through practical research activities].

Research Council of Lithuania. Pandemic Narrative in Lithuanian Mass Media (1-11-2020–30-4-2021). Researcher: MA student I. Skikaitė. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr N. Keršytė. [09.3.3-LMT-K-712 Development of research competence of scientists, other researchers and students through practical research activities].

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Melnikova, I. On intrmedial references to Music in film. International e-conference Transmedial Turn? Potentials, Problems and Point to Consider. 8–11 December 2020, University of Tartu, Estonia, https://transmedia.ut.ee/programme.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius (Lithuania)
Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania)
Centre de recherches politiques (France)
Ohio University (USA)
University of Tartu (Estonia)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assist. Prof. Dr P. Jevsejevas –

  • member of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies.

Assist. Prof. Dr J. Katkuvienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr N. Keršytė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr J. Levina –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association for Phenomenology;
  • member of the International James Joyce Foundation.

Prof. Dr I. Melnikova –

Assoc. Prof. Dr B. Meržvinskytė –

Prof. Dr Habil. K. Nastopka –

Prof. Dr P. V. Subačius –

  • board member of the LCAS;
  • member of The European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS), The Society for Textual Scholarship (STS), Commission Internationale d'Histoire et d'etudes du Christianisme (CIHEC), The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE);
  • editorial board member of the journals LCAS Annuals, Studies in Church History, Fontes Historiae Lituaniae.

Prof. Dr A. Sverdiolas –

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Prof. Dr P. V. Subačius - board member of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute; expert of the Research Council of Lithuania; expert of the Research Database Lituanistika; expert of the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO (Memory of the World); member of the mixed bilateral Government and Church commission for implementation of International Agreements; member of the Permanent bilateral Government and Church commission to solve the issues of cultural heritage; member of the Bilateral Government and Church commission to solve the issues of education.
  • Prof. Dr I. Melnikova - expert of the Estonian Research Council.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • P. Jevsejevas – two lectures on semiotics to the students of VU TSPMI and Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts (September 2020); a talk with Delfi journalist and in the radio podcast on the book Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes, which he translated into Lithuanian (29 July 2020); a paper in Literatūra ir menas (No 3 (3697), 2020).
  • J. Katkuvienė – a talk in the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Moscow during the opening of the exibition The World through the Eyes of a Semiotician, devoted to A. J. Greimas, moderated the presentation of Greimas’ book About Everything and Nothing [Apie viską ir nieką] (March 2020); two semiotic research dissemination papers in Semiotika (2020, No 15) and Metai (2020, No 12).
  • N. Keršytė – an on-line lecture on translation of philosophical texts (November 2020).
  • J. Levina – participation in the presentation of Greimas’ book About Everything and Nothing [Apie viską ir nieką] (March 2020); four research dissemination papers in the periodicals Metai (2020, No. 10), Šiaurės Atėnai (24 July 2020), bernardinai.lt (27 March 2020) and Literatūra ir menas (2020, No. 5 (3699).
  • P. V. Subačius – four research dissemination talks (in January, February, October 2020), including the talk at Vilnius book fair 2020 and the e-lecture for teachers; four papers in the periodicals Naujasis Židinys-Aidai (2020 No 1; No 7), Spectrum (2020 No 5), bernardinai.lt (25 November 2020); participation in nine radio podcasts with commentaries on literature, education and religion.

RESEARCH GROUP FOR STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7216
E-mail:
Head – Dr Aistė Kučinskienė

STAFF

Associate professors: Dr I. Vidugirytė-Pakerienė.
Assistant professors: Dr A. Kučinskienė, Dr D. Kuzminskaitė, Dr M. Sebastià-Sáez.
Lecturer: C. J. Calvente.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

History of the Spanish and Latin American literatures
Comparative literature
Translation studies

In 2018, a group of young researchers joined efforts to investigate a number of problems of comparative literature and Translation Studies from the point of view of Lithuanian literature reaching out to other literary traditions and the effects of other cultures and literatures on expanding horizons to Lithuania. In 2020, they continued work expanding their field of research not only in Spanish, but also in literature of other countries, primarily Lithuanian and Russian.

Main publications:

Kuzminskaitė, D. Semánticas de la vanguardia en la poesía de Amanda Berenguer. Guaraguao. Barcelona: CECAL. 2020, 24(63): 35–53.

[compiled book] Narro Á., Sebastià Sáez, M. (compilers). 2020. Somnis, insomnis i entresons a les literatures antigues i la seua recepció, Rhemata: Reus.

Sebastià Sáez, M. Expurgación y censura en los textos clásicos en la Compañía de Jesús, Aurea Curiositas. Curiosidad y censura en la Edad Moderna, compiled by Simona Georgescu, Sorina-Dora Simion & Mihail Enăchescu, Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press. 2020, 85–96. https://www.academia.edu/43407424/Expurgación_y_censura_de_los_textos_clásicos_en_la_Compañía_de_Jesús.

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Sebastià Sáez, M. El mito de Ifigenia como elemento de perversidad en el cuento contemporáneo Le crime du comte Neville de Amélie Nothomb. Internacional research conference El mal a les literatures clàssiques i la seua recepció. University of Valencia. 15–16 October 2020.
  • Sebastià Sáez, M. La Revolución Francesa a través del epistolario personal del humanista valenciano Manuel Lassala Sangermán. Guerras poetizadas y escritura polémica en la Edad Moderna. Universiy of Bucharest. 10–12 September 2020.
  • Vidugirytė, I. Carnival sources of the comic in the play Išvarymas (Expulsion) by Marius Ivaškevičius and Oskaras Koršunovas. 32nd readings of Purishev: The poetics of the comic in world literature, a conference in commemoration of the 550th anniversary of Erasmus von Rotterdam. Moscow State Pedagogical University, Institute of World Literature. Moscow, 10 April 2020.

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Asist. Prof. Dr A. Kučinskienė –

  • member of the Association of Lithuanian Comparative Literature, http://www.llla.lt;
  • member of the organising committee and moderator of the academic summer seminar Literatūros salos 2020 [Literature islands 2020] (22 July 2020).

Asist. Prof. Dr D. Kuzminskaitė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr I. Vidugirytė –

Assist. Prof. Dr M. Sebastià-Sáez –

  • fellow of Research Center SEMS (Spanish Early Modern Studies) under direction of Dr Silvia Stefan, University of Bucharest (Romania);
  • fellow of Research Group GIRLC (Grup d’Investigació en la Recepció de les Literatures Clàssiques) under direction of Prof. Jordi Redondo, University of Valencia (Spain).

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES

Assist. Prof. Dr A. Kučinskienė - expert member of the Translation promotion programme of the Lithuanian Culture Institute; chair of the Literature Council of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania; advisor to the advertising agency Multimediamark when designing the exposition at the Maironis Lithuanian Literature History Museum, namely, the hall devoted to Lithuanian literature of the interwar period (June–August 2020); jury member of the 51st Lithuanian Student Young Philologists Contest (Literature and Criticism section), organised by the non-formal education centre of Lithuania, 2–4 April 2020.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES