Department of Lithuanian Studies
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Laura Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė
Head of the Department
Research interests: corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, natural morphology, first and second language acquisition, language impairment
CRIS
laura.kamandulyte-merfeldiene@vdu.lt
Prof. habil. dr. Rūta Petrauskaitė
Research interests: lexicology, semantics, lexicography, linguistics of texts and corpora, computer linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics
CRIS
ruta.petrauskaite@vdu.lt
Prof. dr. Asta Kazlauskienė
Research interests: Lithuanian speech: acoustic features of sounds, phonotactics, accentuation, prosody, applied phonetics and phonology
CRIS
asta.kazlauskiene@vdu.lt
Prof. dr. Dalia Kuizinienė
Research interests: diasporic literature, literary criticism, popular culture
CRIS
dalia.kuiziniene@vdu.lt
Prof. dr. Ineta Dabašinskienė
Research interests: psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, grammar, multilingualism and language policy, spoken language, pragmatics and analysis of conversations
CRIS
ineta.dabasinskiene@vdu.lt
Prof. dr. Irena Buckley
Research interests: Lithuanian literature of the 19th century, rhetoric and communication, mythopoetic discourses, old Lithuanian literature
CRIS
irena.buckley@vdu.lt
Prof. dr. Regina Rinkauskienė
Research interests: dialectology, morphology, history of language, ancient writings
CRIS
regina.rinkauskiene@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andrius Utka
Research interests: corpus linguistics, computer linguistics, automatic morphological analysis, automated translation, machine translation
CRIS
andrius.utka@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aurelija Mykolaitytė
Research interests: Lithuanian language and literature of 20th – 21st centuries, contemporary dramaturgy and theatre, Lithuanian language stylistics, contexts of world literature
CRIS
aurelija.mykolaityte@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erika Rimkutė
Research interests: corpus linguistics, computer linguistics, automatic morphological analysis and synthesis, automatic syntactic analysis, language culture, multiword expressions, morphemics
CRIS
erika.rimkute@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gitana Vanagaitė
Research interests: autobiography, value theory, 20th century modern Lithuanian and Italian literature, sociology of literature, narratology
CRIS
gitana.vanagaite@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Indrė Žakevičienė
Research interests: comparative literary studies, ecocriticism, ecopsychology
CRIS
indre.zakeviciene@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ingrida Balčiūnienė
Research interests: psycholinguistics, language acquisition, child language, specific (primary) language impairment, discourse acquisition
CRIS
ingrida.balciuniene@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jurga Trimonytė-Bikelienė
Research interests: lexicon of Lithuanian language
CRIS
jurga.trimonyte-bikeliene@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jurgita Vaičenonienė
Research interests: digital humanities, translation studies, corpus linguistics
CRIS
jurgita.vaicenoniene@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Laimutė Bučienė
Research interests: syntax, semantics of syntactic units, functional grammar, language standardization and use, cognitive linguistics
CRIS
laimute.buciene@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Loreta Udrienė
Research interests: children’s literature, Lithuanian children’s poetry, children’s book illustrations, folklore
CRIS
loreta.udriene@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vijolė Višomirskytė
Research interests: interfaces of literary texts and cultural processes, literary strategies of the post-Soviet period, modern and postmodern poetry, narratology, comparative research between Lithuanian and foreign literature, literary representations of Kaunas, ecocriticism
CRIS
vijole.visomirskyte@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Žydronė Kolevinskienė
Research interests: feminist criticism, literature and culture of Lithuanian diaspora, contemporary Lithuanian literature, literature teaching methodology
CRIS
zydrone.kolevinskiene@vdu.lt
Dr. Agnė Bielinskienė
Research interests: corpus linguistics, syntax, semantics, terminology
CRIS
agne.bielinskiene@vdu.lt
Dr. Danguolė Kalinauskaitė
Research interests: corpus linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, text linguistics, research on short text genres (forms of minimalist communication), discourse analysis, language and culture, editing
CRIS
danguole.kalinauskaite@vdu.lt
Dr. Eglė Krivickaitė-Leišienė
Research interests: psycholinguistics, children’s language and child-directed speech, first language acquisition, specific language disorders, bilingualism and multilingualism, sociolinguistics
CRIS
egle.krivickaite@vdu.lt
Dr. Eugenija Valienė
Research interests: contemporary Lithuanian literature and literary criticism, sociology of literature, press research
CRIS
eugenija.valiene@vdu.lt
