Davide Castiglione
President of LAUTE
Davide Castiglione is Associate Professor of Stylistics in the Department of English Philology at Vilnius University. He teaches courses at the intersection of linguistics and literature, including stylistics, introduction to psycholinguistics, creative writing, lexicology, and twentieth-century Anglo-American poetry. His research expertise is in the stylistics and poetics of poetry, and draws on applied linguistics, literary theory, cognitive sciences, semiotics, and reader-response studies. He is the author of Difficulty in Poetry: A Stylistic Model (Palgrave, 2019) and of a number of articles and book chapters. He has also published three poetry collections in Italian. More information is available on his website: www.davidecastiglione.com
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Grant Rosson
Treasurer of LAUTE
Grant Rosson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Philology at Vilnius University. He teaches courses on the literature of English-speaking countries from the 18th century to the present, American culture and society, and authorship studies. His research interests include literary history, travel writing, and geographic thought. More information is available on his website: www.grantrosson.com
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Rūta Burbaitė
Secretary of LAUTE
Rūta Burbaitė is a lecturer at the Faculty of Philology and the head of the Translation Group at Vilnius University. She teaches academic writing, reading, translation, and editing modules to English Philology students. Her primary interests lie in translation theory and its practical applications, with a particular focus on literary translation.
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Audronė Raškauskienė
Advisor of LAUTE
Audronė Raškauskienė, Associate Professor at Vytautas Magnus University, Department of Foreign Language, Literary and Translation Studies in Kaunas, Lithuania, is the author and co-author of numerous scientific articles and books. She has actively participated in a range of international conferences, showcasing her research in literary studies, intercultural communication, and ESP. Audronė Raškauskienė received her doctoral degree from the University of Warsaw, Poland, and studied Gestalt therapy at the Pacific Gestalt Institute in Los Angeles, California.
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Justina Urbonaitė
Advisor of LAUTE
Justina Urbonaitė is an Associate Professor at Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology. Her research focuses on cognitive linguistics, contemporary metaphor research, (critical) discourse analysis, legal discourse, and translation. She is a member of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA), the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM), the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association (LITAKA), and the Lithuanian Association of University Teachers of English (LAUTE).
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