Faculty
The teaching staff involves high-level academics with professional experience in the research of the modern European multilingualism. All program instructors have international teaching experience, actively participate in staff mobility programs; besides English, they speak on average two or three other foreign languages.
Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania) | |
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Jurgita Vaičenonienė Ph. D., Assoc. Prof. Research areas: translation studies, corpus linguistics, digital humanities |
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Nemira Mačianskienė Ph. D., Professor Research areas: language policy, applied linguistics, multilingualism and plurilingualism, teaching English as a foreign language, learner strategies, teaching and learning in multicultural and multilingual higher education learning space, translation and interpretation, intercultural communication |
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Auksė Balčytienė Ph. D., Professor Research areas: journalism culture, media literacy and policy, political communication, democratisation |
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Angelica Peccini MA Research areas: identity, multilingualism, language acquisition and teaching |
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Aurelija Kolpakovienė-Daukšaitė Ph. D., Lecturer |
Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany) | |
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Tuija Kapanen MA, Finnish teacher |
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Nora Kruse Ph. D. |
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Anneli Sarhimaa Ph.D., Professor Research areas: empirical and contact linguistics, areal linguistics and sociolinguistics (focus on the Circum-Baltic area), European, Nordic and Baltic language policies |
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AurelijaTamošiūnaitė Ph.D., Lecturer Research areas: historical and contemporary sociolinguistics, standard language histories, language ideologies, heritage language research |
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Sarmite Trupa Ph.D., Lecturer Research areas: systemic functional grammar analysis, minority languages, sociolinguistics with the focus on the Baltic States |
Stockholm University (Sweden) | |
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Pēteris Vanags Ph.D., Professor Research areas: Baltic philology, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics, language contact in the Baltic region |
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Lilita Zalkalns Ph.D., Lecturer Research areas: Cold War history, functional grammar, language learning
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Frederik Heinrich Bissinger Ph.D., Lecturer Research areas: Multilingualism, Language Policies, Language Teaching and Learning, Language Acquisition and Maintaining |
University of Tartu (Estonia) | |
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Madis Arukask Ph.D., Associate Professor Research areas: cross- cultural studies, traditional genres of Finnic people |
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Katrin Jänese Estonian as a foreign language teacher |
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Birute Klaas-Lang Ph.D., Professor Research areas: language typology, syntax, language planning, Estonian as a foreign language teaching |
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Heli Noor Estonian as a foreign language teacher |
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Piret Toomet Teacher of Estonian language and culture |
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Kerttu Rozenvalde Ph.D., Lecturer Research areas: Language Policy, Estonian as a Second Language |
Former SoMu teachers
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Laura Čubajevaitė Ph.D., Lecturer Research areas: Lithuanian as a foreign language teaching, language and identity, multilingualism |