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)

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

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Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany)

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

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Stockholm University (Sweden)

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

 

Frederik Heinrich Bissinger

Ph.D., Lecturer

Research areas: Multilingualism, Language Policies, Language Teaching and Learning, Language Acquisition and Maintaining 

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University of Tartu (Estonia)

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

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Former SoMu teachers

Laura Čubajevaitė

Ph.D., Lecturer

Research areas: Lithuanian as a foreign language teaching, language and identity, multilingualism

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