{"id":2,"date":"2009-06-22T13:36:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T10:36:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:04:28","slug":"apie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/apie\/","title":{"rendered":"About – Research Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ROM_Anishinabe<\/a><\/p>\n

Associate Professor, PhD<\/p>\n

E-mail: ruta.slapkauskaite@flf.vu.lt<\/a><\/p>\n

MotherNet Twinning Project: #MotherNetPersonal webpage:\u00a0https:\/\/rutowl.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. <\/i>(Groucho Marx)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Research interests (in no particular order):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Literatures in English: Canadian, Antipodean (i.e. Australian, Tasmanian, and New Zealand), British, Irish, American<\/p>\n

Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities<\/p>\n

Imagetexts\/Iconotexts<\/p>\n

Neo-Victorian literature and culture<\/p>\n

Toys, dolls, machines, and literary practices<\/p>\n

Membership in Associations<\/strong>: ESSE<\/strong> (European Association for the Study of English), CAPS<\/strong> (Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies), CEACS<\/strong> (Central European Association for Canadian Studies), TransCanadian Networks (Spain)<\/p>\n

Centre for Canadian Studies, Stockholm University<\/strong>: board member<\/p>\n

Some of my publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2025. Maternal Inclination and the Politics of Immunity in Emma Donoghue\u2019s The Pull of the Stars. In Lazzari, L. and Po DeLisle, G. (eds.), Unmasking (New) Maternal Realities: Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum in Global Literature, Cinema, and Media<\/em>. London and New York: Springer Nature.<\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2024. Mothering the Anthropocene: Entropic Satire in Richard Flanagan\u2019s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams<\/em>. In Guttman, A. and Austen, V. J. (eds.), Ruptured Commons<\/em>, pp. 182-203. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.<\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2023. Eco-Memory and the Anthropocene Imagination: Ed O\u2019Loughlin\u2019s Minds of Winter<\/em>. In: B\u00e9dard-Goulet, S. & Premat, C. (eds.), Nordic and Baltic Perspectives in Canadian Studies: An Interdisciplinary<\/em> Approach to Northern Spaces Narratives<\/em>, pp. 165\u2013192. Stockholm University Press.\u00a0DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.16993\/bci.f. License: CC BY.<\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2023. \u201cPro Pele Cutem<\/em>: On the Subject(s) of Extraction in Fred Stenson\u2019s The Trade<\/em>\u201d. Canadian Literature. Poetics and Extraction,<\/em> No. 251, pp.13-34.<\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2023. \u201cWaking the Witness and Witnessing the Wake in David Dabydeen\u2019s Turner.<\/em>\u201d In The Hook of Desire \u2013 Slavery and David Dabydeen\u2019s <\/em>Turner edited by Lynne Macedo. Hertford: Hansib Publications, pp. 213-237.<\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2022. \u201cAn Ecology of the Hewn in Susan Vreeland\u2019s The Forest Lover<\/em>.\u201d In The Northern Forest <\/em>edited by Sara B\u00e9dard-Goulet and Daniel Chartier. Tartu and Montr\u00e9al: University of Tartu Press and Imaginaire Nord.<\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R.\u00a02021.<\/span>\u201c<\/span>The He(A)rt of the Witness: Remembering Australian Prisoners of War in Richard Flanagan\u2019s The Narrow Road to the Deep North<\/i>\u201e<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>In\u00a0Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies<\/i>,\u00a030<\/span>\/3, p.\u00a0<\/span>141<\/span>–161<\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2020. \u201eGhost, host, hostage: a poet(h)ics of vulnerability in Emma Donoghue\u2019s The Wonder.<\/em>\u201dThe European Journal of English Studies,\u00a0<\/em>24:3, p. 241-254. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13825577.2020.1876611<\/a><\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2020. \u201eImperial (S)Kin: The Orthography of the Wake in Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black<\/em>.\u201c Studia Anglica Posnaniensia<\/em>\u00a0Vol. 55, No. 2, De Gruyter\/Sciendo.\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/repozytorium.amu.edu.pl\/bitstream\/10593\/26124\/1\/SAP%2055s2%20%282020%29%2023%20\u0160lapkauskait\u0117.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2020. \u201ePrecariousness, kinship, and care: Becoming human in Claire Cameron’s The Last Neanderthal<\/em>‘\u201c. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature<\/em>, Sage.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0021989420967984<\/a><\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2019. \u201eOut of the Closet, into the World: The Power of Puppets in Jessie Burton\u2019s The Miniaturist<\/em>.\u201c Literat\u016bra,<\/em> 61(4).<\/a><\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2019. \u201eAn Arc of Itinerant Tropes: Beyond Kin and Kind in Andre Alexis’ Fifteen Dogs<\/em>. Eds. Maria and Martin Loschnigg,\u00a0The Anglo-Canadian Novel in the Twenty-first Century: Interpretations<\/em>. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, p. 11-19. https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anglo-Canadian-Novel-Twenty-First-Century-Interpretations\/dp\/3825346404\/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=The+Anglo-Canadian+Novel+in+the+Twenty-first+Century%3A+Interpretations.+Heidelberg%3A+Universitatsverlag+Winter&qid=1580932439&sr=8-1-fkmr1<\/a><\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2018. \u201eLike being trapped in a drum\u201c: The Poetics of Resonance in Frances Itani’s Deafening<\/em>. Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies<\/em>, 27\/3, pages 201-232, University of Warsaw.\u00a0http:\/\/www.anglica.ia.uw.edu.pl\/images\/pdf\/27-3-SI-articles\/Anglica-27-3-10-Slapkauskaite.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2018. \u201eMaterial Reflections: The Scope of Memory in Peter Carey\u2019s Oscar and Lucinda<\/em>\u201e. In History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Literature and Culture<\/em>. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.<\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2017. The Material of Memory in Helen Humphreys’ The Lost Garden<\/em>. TransCanadiana. Polish Journal of Canadian Studies\/Revue Polonaise d\u2019\u00c9tudes Canadiennes<\/em>. Vol. 2., University of Poznan, pages 238-253. http:\/\/www.ptbk.org.pl\/userfiles\/file\/TransCanadiana\/Transcanadiana_9_2017.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2016. Reciprocity and Re-enchantment in Charles Simic\u2019s Dime Store Alchemy. The Art of Joseph Cornell<\/em>. Human in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspective. Comparative Studies <\/em>Vol. VII (3), pages 167-179.<\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2015. Et in Arcadia Ego: Memory, Mystery, and Mourning in J.L. Carr\u2019s A Month in the Country<\/em>. Re-Imagining the First World War: New Perspectives in Anglophone Literature and Culture<\/em>. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.<\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2014. Intermedial Translation: The Gyrating Gaze in David Dabydeen\u2019s Turner<\/em>. European Journal of English Studies<\/em>, Volume: 18, Issue: 03, pages 316\u00a0\u2013\u00a0329, December.<\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2012. \u2018An Oscilloscopic Machine\u2019: the Lens, the Image and the Canvas in Michael Ondaatje\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Running in the Family<\/em>. Otherness: Essays and Studies,<\/em> 3.1<\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2012. The Social, the Spectral and the Specular in Michael Ondaatje\u2019s Running in the Family<\/em>. Rudaityte, R. (ed.) Literature and Society<\/em>. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.<\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2011. Story of Identity, Identity of Story: Hiromi Goto\u2019s Chorus of Mushrooms<\/em>. Sojka, Eugenia and Tomasz Sikora (eds.) Embracing Otherness. Canadian Minority Discourses in Transcultural Perspectives<\/em>. Torun: Wydanwnictvo Adam Marszalek.<\/p>\n

\u0160lapkauskait\u0117, R. 2011. Bears, Bodies, and Boundaries: Douglas Glover\u2019s Elle: a novel<\/em>. Habegger-Conti, Jena (ed.) Transnational Literature<\/em>, Vol. 4 no. 1.<\/p>\n

Some of my other publications may be accessed online:\u00a0https:\/\/vu-lt.academia.edu\/RutaSlapkauskaite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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