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About me

I am a senior research fellow currently working on a project “After Utopia: World Literature and the Future of Eastern Europe” (2024-2029). I also act as the Principal Investigator of the team project on “Utopia and Eastern European Literature after 1989” (2024-2028). The overarching ambition of these two projects is to deprovincialise the study of literatures of Eastern Europe by (a) mapping anew the existing geographies of comparison, (b) by developing a world-systems theory of literary semi-peripheries, and (c) by revising the current understanding of the novel as a globally-dominant genre. These three larger theoretical goals are framed by the thematic focus on the contemporary Utopian imagination in the region.

My current research interests and teaching areas include narratology, theories of comparative and world literature, utopia, and Ukrainian fiction. I am an elected member of the AILC/ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory and a founding member of the Young Network TransEurope, amongst other professional engagements. 

About me

I am a postdoctoral research fellow in the team project on “Utopia and Eastern European Literature after 1989” (2024-2028). My research examines reflections of Europeanism and models of cultural identity openness in Lithuanian literature after 1990, linking them to discourses of utopian thinking and the reception of world literature.

I also work as a part-time research fellow at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore in Lithuania. 

My current research interests include reception theory, comparative literature, culture and identity studies, the campus novel, PhD identity, publishing, Soviet literature, and contemporary Lithuanian literature. I am currently President of Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Comparative Literature/Société Européenne de Littérature Comparée ESCL/SELC.

About me

I am Doctoral Researcher in the team project “Utopia and Eastern European Literature after 1989” (2024-2028; Research Council of Finland). My research interests span across comparative literature and cultural studies, utopian studies, European studies, time studies, literature of exile, and ethics. 

My current research project takes on an interdisciplinary approach to examine contemporary Bulgarian and Serbian utopian/dystopian writing. It discusses the Southeast European utopia in the context of world literature and especially in comparison to the Western literary utopia. I also look at the relationship between utopia and the concept of nationhood in Bulgaria and Serbia, postmodernist trends in the Balkan literary utopia, and what work is produced in utopian and cultural studies when reading Balkan utopias and dystopias against the established Western canon of utopian literature.