Department of Foreign Language, Literary and Translation Studies
Prof. dr. Aurelija Leonavičienė
Head of the Department
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
Assoc. 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
Kristina Aurylaitė
Research interests: contemporary dramaturgy, theories of dramaturgy, literature and culture of Canada and South Africa, ethnic minority literature, studies of postcolonialism and multiculturalism, visual aspects in contemporary literature, narratology, cinematic and digital narratives
CRIS
kristina.aurylaite@vdu.lt
