Staniškytė, Jurgita

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Jurgita Staniškytė, Ph.D., serves as a Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor at the Theatre Studies Department, Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania). She has published numerous scientific and critical articles on contemporary Lithuanian theatre in the context of the processes of Baltic stage art, performative aspects of post-soviet Lithuanian culture, audience development and research. She actively participates in various scholarly and artistic organizations as well as art and research projects. Jurgita Staniškytė served as a member of the Committee of the Social Sciences and Humanities of the Research Council of Lithuania 2013-2018. She has been a Fulbright scholar at the Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston and a visiting scholar at the Illinois University in Chicago and Columbia University, NYC. Jurgita Staniškytė is the Board member of HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) and the Governing Board member of EU Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) on Cultural Heritage and Global Change. She served as a chair of the Board of “Kaunas the European Capital of Culture 2022”. Jurgita Staniškytė has published four books: a monograph “Changing Signs: Lithuanian Theatre between Modernism and Postmodernism” (Vilnius, 2008), collective monographs “Post-Soviet Lithuanian Theatre: History, Memory, Identity” (Vilnius, 2014) and “Communicating Culture: Institutions, Strategies, Audiences” (Kaunas, 2015), “I teatri post-sovietici” (Roma, 2016). Since 2022, she is a member of European Cultural Parliament. In 2022 Jurgita Staniškytė was elected a programme committee member of CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe).