Department of Foreign Language, Literary and Translation Studies
Assoc. prof. dr. Vilma Bijeikienė
Head of the Department
Research interests: applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, language policy, multilingualism and the development of multilingual competences, English for specific and academic purposes, CLIL and language-sensitive teaching
CRIS
vilma.bijeikiene@vdu.lt
Prof. dr. Aurelija Leonavičienė
Research interests: translation theory and critics, contrastive linguistics, text linguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics
CRIS
aurelija.leonaviciene@vdu.lt
Prof. habil. dr. Milda Julija Danytė
Research interests: Lithuanian history of emigrants, culture, literature, problems of identity, works of Žemaitė, feminism, genres of popular literature, detective novels in a comparative context of various countries, children and teenager literature in English language, problems of literary translations
milda.danyte@vdu.lt
Prof. dr. Ingrida Eglė Žindžiuvienė
Research interests: contemporary literature in English, comparative literature, USA and European studies, cultural studies, English language teaching methodology
CRIS
ingrida.zindziuviene@vdu.lt
Prof. dr. Jūratė Ruzaitė
Research interests: discourse analysis, language and ideology, corpus linguistics, hate speech, vague language
CRIS
jurate.ruzaite@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Audronė Raškauskienė
Research interests: gothic literature, women’s literature, comparative literature, autobiographical literature, academic writing, culturology, intercultural communication
CRIS
audrone.raskauskiene@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Irena Ragaišienė
Research interests: contemporary English literature and literary criticism, popular literature, comparative literature, gender studies, ecocriticism, literary translation, intercultural communication
CRIS
irena.ragaisiene@vdu.lt
Prof. Dr. Rūta Eidukevičienė
Research interests: contemporary German literature and literary criticism, comparative literature, connection between literature and culture, business language research
CRIS
ruta.eidukeviciene@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Moreno Bonda
Research interests: the history of 17th-century ideas, Lithuanian historiography, cultural connections between Italy and Lithuania, Italian language philology
CRIS
moreno.bonda@vdu.lt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stefano Lanza
Research interests: lexicology, language relations, etymology, Lithuanian language philology
CRIS
stefano.lanza@vdu.lt
Dr. Jurgita Macijauskaitė-Bonda
Research interests: translation studies, translation of cultural meanings, folklore, children’s culture
CRIS
jurgita.macijauskaite-bonda@vdu.lt
Dr. Maria Jose de Urraza
Research interests: educology and educational anthropology
CRIS
maria.deurraza@vdu.lt
Dr. Alessandro Poroli
Research interests: organizational social responsibility communication practices, initiatives of organizational, employee and community engagement and participation, participatory and communicative constitutive dynamics of organizations and organizing, methods for teaching Italian as a foreign language
CV
alessandro.poroli@vdu.lt
Dr. Giedrė Pranaitytė
Research interests: cultural diplomacy, public diplomacy, French foreign policy, translation and politics, the analysis of cultural phenomena
CRIS
giedre.pranaityte@vdu.lt
Dr. Inga Litvinavičienė
Research interests: French literature, translation theories
CRIS
inga.litvinaviciene@vdu.lt
Dr. Judita Giparaitė
Research interests: grammar, corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics
CRIS
judita.giparaite@vdu.lt
BENJAMIN HAUSNER
DAAD lecturer
Research interests: language contact, linguistic varieties, dialectology
benjamin.maximilian.hausner@vdu.lt
Paul Lynchak-Oppermann
DAAD assistant
Research interests: validity of language tests, language testing, CEFR, cognitive linguistics
CV
paul.lynchak-oppermann@vdu.lt
Malachi Black
Fulbright Scholar, Associate Professor at the University of San Diego
Olivia Fritsch
Specialist of teaching French as a foreign language
