History

The Department of Germanic Philology was established in the 1990s. Until then the department was known as The Department of Foreign Languages. It carried out the programme of the English Language and Literature atKaunas Faculty of Humanities; foreign languages such as English, German and French were taught to students of other specialities. In the 1990s The Department of Russian Language and Literature was reorganised into The Department of Foreign Languages and thus the teaching of foreign languages to the students of other programmes was entrusted to the newly established department. This division was the beginning of The Department of Germanic Philology which prepares specialists of philology.

The former heads of the Department of Germanic Philology were: Assoc. Prof. Juozas Vilutis Assoc. Prof. Vincas Pukelis, Assoc. Prof. Irena Jurkėnienė, Assoc. Prof. Audronė Krasnauskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jūratė Patašiūtė, Prof. Dr. Jadvyga Krūminienė. Until 2010, the Head of the Department was Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautė Pasvenskienė. Since September 2010, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Danguolė Satkauskaitė is the Head of the Department.

The premises of the department have changed several times. In the spring of 2013, the department moved to a loft located in the central building where the modern interior goes hand-in-hand with the old one and create a comfortable environment.

Due to financial support of the Kaunas Faculty of Humanities and the EU Structural Funds, the students of the newly established study programme Audiovisual Translation were equipped with the most modern language teaching and audiovisual translation laboratory, as well as a recording studio.

In 2014 the second audiovisual translation laboratory was prepared.

The first audiovisual translation specialists graduated from the university in the spring of 2016. The same year the Audiovisual Translation master study program was established. 

Study programmes

Bachelor studies: Audiovisual translation

Master studies: Linguistics (English, German)

Audiovisual Translation

Personnel

Pavardė,Vardas	Pareigos	Telefonas	El. paštas
Abraitienė Lina	PhD student, lect.	8 37 422604
Alosevičienė Eglė	Associate Professor, Dr.	8 37 422604
Astrauskienė Jurgita	PhD student, lect.	8 37 422604
Buivytė Giedrė	Doctoral student	8 37 422604
Bartkuvienė Inga	Lecturer, Dr.	8 37 422604
Drossiger Hans-Harry	Professor (HP), Dr.	8 37 422604
Jankauskas Gediminas	Lecturer	8 37 422604
Hofmanaitė Dovilė	Temp. Administrator	8 37 422477
Kerevičienė Jurgita	Associate Professor, Dr.	8 37 422604
Koverienė Indrė	Lecturer, Dr.	8 37 422604
Krūminienė Jadvyga	Professor, Dr.	8 37 750914
Kuzmickienė Alina	Lecturer	8 37 422604
Lukševičiūtė Agnė	Administrator	8 37 422477
Mačiulskienė Rita	Lecturer	8 37 422604
Niedzviegienė Laura	Lecturer, Dr.	8 37 422604
Pasvenskienė Vytautė	Professor, Dr.	8 37 422604
Rumšienė Goda	Associate Professor, Dr.	8 37 422344
Satkauskaitė Danguolė	Head of the Department, Professor, Dr.	8 37 422604 8 37 422477
Solomonik-Pankrašova Tatjana	Professor, Dr.	8 37 422604
Šidiškytė Daiva	Doctoral student	8 37 422604
Šležaitė Indrė	Lecturer, Dr.	8 37 422344
Ulvydienė Loreta	Professor, Dr.	8 37 422604
Urbonienė Miglė	Lecturer	8 37 422604
Vaitkevičius Irmantas	Lecturer	8 37 422604

Science

RESEARCH AREAS OF THE DEPARTMENT

The Department of Germanic Philology conducts academic research according to Vilnius University long-term scientific research and experimental (social, cultural) development programme “Poetics, rhetoric, and linguistics: fundamental and applied artistic and non-artistic text research”.  

Titles, duration and aims of the scientific research conducted by the department:

1. “The Applied Aspects of the Linguistic and Interdisciplinary Language Research Aspects” (01/01/2013 –31/12/2017):

• to investigate the methods, aspects and problems of audiovisual translation;
• to discuss the problems of translation and intercultural communication;
• to explore the English and German languages and compare them with the Lithuanian language from the semantic, pragmatic, cognitive and etymological point of view.

2. “The Correlation between Text and Context” (01/01/2013 –31/12/2017):

• to investigate poetics and rhetoric of the fictional texts and public discourse, taking into consideration social, cultural, genre and other aspects, as well as the correlation between text and context.

The academic research of the department scholars and PhD students is carried out from a number of perspectives – linguistics, literature, cultural and translation studies. The linguists set out the aim to investigate the English and German languages and compare them with the Lithuanian language from the semantic, pragmatic, cognitive and etymological point of view. Literature scholars investigate the poetics and rhetoric of fictional texts and public discourse, taking into account social, cultural, genre and other aspects, as well as the mutual correlation between text and context. Scholars of cultural studies research the relation between worldview and language in order to perceive the ancient Indo-European mythological image system in the ancient Germanic – Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic literature and to perform the reconstruction of myth and ritual.Translation research is first of all orientated towards audiovisual translation, its aspects, problems that arise and their solutions. Furthermore, translation and intercultural communication aspects are analysed.

SCHOLARS

The scholars of the department Prof. Dr. (HP) Hans Harry Droessiger, Prof. Dr. Jadvyga Krūminienė, Prof. Dr. Tatjana Solomonik-Pankrašova, Prof. Dr. Loreta Ulvydienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautė Pasvenskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Danguolė Satkauskaitė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jurgita Kerevičienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Goda Rumšienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eglė Alosevičienė and other members of the faculty participate in international academic projects on the popularisation of science and language studies, supervise PhD students, present their research results in international academic conferences and seminars, publish academic articles in prestigious journals, write scientific monographs, textbooks, as well ascourse and practice books.

RESEARCH PECULIARITIES

Linguistics: Prof. Dr. (HP) Hans Harry Droessiger, Prof. Dr. Danguolė Satkauskaitė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jurgita Kerevičienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Goda Rumšienė.

Literature studies: Prof. Dr. Jadvyga Krūminienė, Prof. Dr. Loreta Ulvydienė, Dr. Indrė Šležaitė, Dr. Inga Bartkuvienė

Cultural studies: Prof. Dr. Tatjana Solomonik-Pankrašova.

Translation studies: Prof. Dr. (HP) Hans Harry Droessiger, Prof. Dr. Jadvyga Krūminienė, Prof. Dr. Loreta Ulvydienė, Prof. Dr. Vytautė Pasvenskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eglė Alosevičienė, Prof. Dr. Danguolė Satkauskaitė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Goda Rumšienė

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS

Doctoral Dissertations maintained at the Department of Germanic Philology since 2009:

Surname, name of PhD student	Dissertation title	Scientific advisor	Date of defence
Year 2015
INDRĖ KOVERIENĖ	Dubbing as an Audiovisual Translation Mode: English and Lithuanina Phonemic Inventories in the Context of Visual Phonetics	Prof. Dr. VYTAUTĖ PASVENSKIENĖ	21/12/2015
Year 2014
AUDRONĖ GEDŽIŪTĖ	Female projection in the mythopoetics of death as reflected in celtic mythical stories, folktales and late medieval literature	Prof. Dr. JADVYGA KRŪMINIENĖ	30/05/2014
Year 2013
JŪRATĖ MAKSVYTYTĖ	Übersetzungsstrategien bei der Wiedergabe deutscher Realienbezeichnungen ins Litauische (Translation Strategies to Convey the Realia Names from German into Lithuanian)	Prof. Dr. HANS HARRY DROESSIGER	18/12/2013
LAURA NIEDZVIEGIENĖ	Zu metaphorisch-metonymischen Konzeptualisierungen von Emotionen in der Lyrik von Else Lasker-Schüler und von Salomėja Nėris (On the Metaphoric and Metonymic Conceptualisation of Emotions in the Lyrics of Else Lasker-Schüler and Salomėja Nėris)	Prof. Dr. HANSHARRYDROESSIGER	17/10/2013
LIUDMILAKRAVCOVA	Картина мира в зеркале существительных со значением лица в современном русском языке (по данным толкового словаря русского языка начала XXI века. Актуальная лексика). (Personal Nouns Nominating Persons as a Reflection of Worldview in Contemporary Russian (on the Basis of the 21st Century Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language. Actual Lexis))	Prof. Dr. Habil. ELEONORA LASSAN	20/09/2013
Year 2012
DAINORA MAUMEVIČIENĖ	Translation Strategies in Software Localisation	Prof. Dr. TATJANA SOLOMONIK-PANKRAŠOVA	20/12/2012
LAIMA KUPRIENĖ	Organization and Structure of the Conversation (On the Basis of the Examples taken from Contemporary German Children’s Literature)	Prof. Dr. Habil. ALOYZAS GUDAVIČIUS	31/05/2012
Year 2011
INGA BARTKUVIENĖ	Kalbos refleksijos Paulio Celano  kūryboje (Reflections of Language in Works of Paul Celan)	Prof. Dr. JADVYGA BAJARŪNIENĖ	23/12/2011
ARMANDAS RUMŠAS	Development of Pragmatic Presuppositions in Fictional Texts	Assoc. Prof. Dr. TATJANA SOLOMONIK-PANKRAŠOVA	21/12/2011
Year 2009
INDRĖ ŠLEŽAITĖ	Language as Experience of James Joyce’s World (Based on the Short Story Collection Dubliners and the Novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)	Prof. Dr. IZOLDA GABRIELĖ GENIUŠIENĖ	25/09/2009
SAULĖ PETRONIENĖ	The Meaning of Lithuanian Past Tenses and their Equivalents in English	Prof. Dr. Habil. ALDONA PAULAUSKIENĖ	22/05/2009
RAMUNĖ KASPERAVIČIENĖ	The Category of Number in Lithuanian and English	Prof. Dr. Habil. ALDONA PAULAUSKIENĖ	29/1/2009

SCIENTIFIC EVENTS

“Texts and Contexts”

From 2003 to 2013 The Department of Germanic Philology along with The Department of Lithuanian Philology, Centre for Socio-Cultural Research, Minsk State Linguistic University and the branches of “European American Studies” association in Byelorussia and Poland branches organised the international scientific conference “Texts and Contexts”:

• 2003 − “Texts and Contexts: the Formation of Meaning”
• 2004− “Texts and Contexts: the Movement of Language”
• 2005 − “Texts and Contexts: Spectrum of Transformations”
• 2008 −“Texts and Contexts: Interactive Perspectives”
• 2010 − “Texts and Contexts: Collisionsand Collusions”
• 2013 - "Texts and Contexts"

Articles based on the conference presentations are published in the periodical academic journal entitled “Texts and Contexts“.

“TELL ME: Thought Elaboration: Linguistics, Literature, Media Expression” (http://www.tellme.khf.vu.lt/lt/, facebook https://www.facebook.com/TELLME.KHF.VU/)

On April 11 – 12, 2013, the postgraduate students of The Department of Germanic Philology initiated the launch of the international interdisciplinary academic conference “Thought Elaboration: Linguistics, Literature Media Expression: TELL ME 2013”. The spectrum of the conference presentations is definitely wide ranging: from linguistics, translation studies, to the new media in the context of the language of art. In addition to traditional academic presentations, great attention is also given to practical reports, interactive pursuits in project work presentations. The programme also comprises the review of students’ audiovisual works.

 

 

 

 

 

Articles based on the conference presentations were published in the periodical academic journal entitled “TELL ME: Thought Elaboration: Linguistics, Literature, Media Expression”:

2013 m. „Tarp eilučių: lingvistikos, literatūrologijos, medijų erdvė: TELL ME“;

2014 m. „Tarp eilučių: lingvistikos, literatūrologijos, medijų erdvė: TELL ME“;

2015 m. „Tarp eilučių: lingvistikos, literatūrologijos, medijų erdvė: TELL ME“.

 

Semester projects

The second and third year students of the batchelor study program  Audiovisual Translation prepare and defend their semester projects about subtitling, voice-over, dubbing, audio description and subtitling for the deaf and hard-of- hearing.  Thesis committee usualy involves representatives of social partners of the department. 

Projects

Name of staff member	Title of the project	Execution period	Notes
Department of Germanic Philology	The project “Improvement of Study Quality, Increasing Internationalisation”, administered by the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Lithuania and financed by the measure VP1-2.2-ŠMM-07-K. The project of VU Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, Department of Germanic Philology aimed at creating a new Bachelor study programme “Audiovisual translation”.	2010−2012
Loreta Ulvydienė	AHRC network project (Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK) “Key Cultural Texts in Translation”, hosted by University of Leicester, UK, Coordinator Professor Kirsten Malmkjaer, working with the Intercultural Studies Group, University of Terragona, Spain, and the European Society for Translation Studies on project DGT-2012-TLL, a research project on translation in language learning for the Directorate General for Translation of the European Commission (see http://isg.urv.es/publicity/isg/projects/2012_DGT/tll.html.  http://isg.urv.es/publicity/isg/projects/2012_DGT/tll.html  http://isg.urv.es/publicity/isg/projects/2012_DGT/tll.html.  http://isg.urv.es/publicity/isg/projects/2012_DGT/tll.html	2013−2014	Project partner
Loreta Ulvydienė	Project “The Development of Moral Competence in Leadership and Management” funded by Nordplus Higher Education Programme	2013−2014	Project partner
Jadvyga Krūminienė	Latvijas Republika Izglītības un zinātnes ministrija RĒZEKNES AUGSTSKOLA, Latvijas–Lietuvas pārrobežu sadarbības programma 2007–2013 gadam LLIII-207 “Development of Research Infrastructure for Education in the Humanities in Eastern Latvia, Lithuania”. Reģ. No. LV 90000011588.	2007−2013	Expertise of the Joint Interdisciplinary Doctoral Study Programme in Baltistics
Jadvyga Krūminienė	Project oc-2011-2-10557 COST New Action: BEhavINg coGnitive Systems: Believable, Autonomous, Adaptive, Context Aware (BEINGS).	2011	Prepared and presented, yet rejected
Jadvyga Krūminienė	Erasmus international scientific project “The Baltic Sea: The Neighbourhood of Cultures, the Borderlines of Arts: Wyspianski/ Čiurlionis”.	February 2009 – December 2009	Coordinator partner in the international inter-university project together with Jesuit University of Philosophy and Education IGNATIANUM, Poland

The students of the Department of Germanic Philology take an active in project-based activities. In the spring of 2013, they together with the students of the Department of Cultural Management participated in the project “Theatre Online”. See media reviews about the project:

• Bernardinai
• Kur stoti
• Kauno diena
• 15min
• diena.lt,

Publications

MONOGRAPHS

• Drößiger, H.-H. (2006). Metaphorik in der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Funktional-kommunikative Aspekte. Hamburg: Dr. Kovač. – ISBN 3-8300-2226-3
• Drößiger, H.-H. (2007). Metaphorik und Metonymie im Deutschen. Untersuchungen zum Diskurspotenzial semantisch-kognitiver Räume. Hamburg: Dr. Kovač. – ISBN 3-8300-2227-1
• Drößiger, H.-H. (2015): Realienbezeichnungen in den Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm. Intrakulturelle und interkulturelle Aspekte. - Hamburg: Dr. Kovač. – ISBN 978-3-8300-7787-9

SELECTED SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

• Krūminienė, J. (Ed.). (2008). Texts and Contexts: Spectrum of Transformations. Selected Scientific Papers, Vol. 1—2, Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 314 p. – ISBN 9789955330875
• Krūminienė, J. (Ed.). (2013). Texts and Contexts: Collisions and Collusions.Selected Scientific Papers,Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 212 p. – ISSN 2351-4736. http://www.khf.vu.lt/dokumentai/failai/katedru/germanu/vukhf_texts_and_contexts.pdf

METHODOLOGICAL GUIDES

Alosevičienė, E.(2009). Grundlagen der Phonetik und Phonologie. Vilnius:Vilnius University Press, 46 p. – ISBN 978-9955-33-413-2. ftp://ftp.vukhf.lt/Metodiniai/Germanu%20filologijos%20katedra/ALOSEVICIENE_METODINE.rtf

Deltuvienė D., Katinienė N., Mačiulskienė R. (2008). Metodiniai nurodymai studentų akademiniams darbams. A Methodological Guide. Kaunas: Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, 42 p. – ISBN 978-9955-33-352-4

Kerevičienė, J. (2009). Glossary of Cognitive Terms. ftp://ftp.vukhf.lt/Metodiniai/Germanu%20filologijos%20katedra/

Krūminienė, J. (2007). Modes of Intricate Literary Expression: Reading Perspectives. Kaunas:  Vilnius University Press, 77 p. – ISBN 97899553301890508.

Pasvenskienė, V. (Ed.) (2008). English Intonation in Use. A Workbook. Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 56 p.– ISBN 978-9955-33-047-9 eBook (Adobe Reader). ftp://ftp.vukhf.lt/destytojai/pasvenskiene

Pasvenskienė, V. (Ed.) (2008). New Collections: Talking and Writing about Fiction. A Workbook. 2nd edition. Vilnius: Vilnius University Press. – ISBN 978-9955-33-046-2 eBook (Adobe Reader). 296 p. ftp://ftp.vukhf.lt/destytojai/pasvenskiene

Rumšienė, G. (2009). Word Formation Patterns in Internet English: Neologism Glossary. A Methodological Guide for University Students. Kaunas, 55 p. – ISBN 978-9955-33-409-5; ftp://ftp.vukhf.lt/Metodiniai/Germanu%20filologijos%20katedra/metodine_rumsiene_galutine.doc

Satkauskaitė, D. (2006). Übersetzungsübungen zu wirtschaftsthemen für germanistikstudenten. A Mehodological Guide. Kaunas. 48 p. – ISBN 9986-19-916-6

Satkauskaitė, D. (2011). Lingvistinė pragmatika. A Mehodological Guide. Vilnius: Vilnius University Press. 95 p. – ISBN 978-9955-634-12-6.

Solomonik-Pankrašova, T. (2009). A Supplementary Gothic-Lithuanian Glossary (to the Fragments of the Gothic Translation of the Bible). Kaunas, 59 p. – ISBN 978-9955-33-408-8

Solomonik-Pankrašova, T. (2009). King Alfred’s Psalms: A Translator’s Problems. Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 133 p. – ISBN 978-9955-33-405-7.

Ulvydienė, L. (2008), Text Analysis: Prose and Verse. Vilnius, 101 p. – ISBN 9986-19-911-5.

Ulvydienė, L. (2009), Fields of Reading. Vilnius, 109 p. – ISBN 9986-19-908-5.

Ulvydienė, L. (2011), Translation and Interpretation. Vilnius, 86 p. – ISBN 978-9955-634-09-6.

Partnership

International relations:

• The Hebrew University of Jesrusalem, Israel
• London Middlesex University, UK
• European Humanities University (EHU), Department of American Culture, Minsk, Belarus
• EAAS (European Association of American Studies)
• Minsk State Linguistic University, Department of World Literature, Minsk, Belarus
• Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland
• Jaén University, Spain
• European Commission Competence Centre Group Euroscript Baltija
• Lessius Hogeschool, Belgium
• The Language Centre of the University of Vienna (Sprachenzentrum der Universität Wien), Austria
• Professional Services Fitted to Your Business S.A., Luxembourg
• Formação Língua e Estudos Porugueses, Portugal
• Inspectoratul Scolar Judetean Mehedinti, Romania
• Združená stredná škola vo Svite, Slovakia
• Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Logroño, Spain
• Nottingham Trent University, UK
• Heidelberg Ruprecht-Karls University, Institute for General and Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies
• European Commission Directorate-General for Translation