The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (Lithuania)
Dr. Viktorija Jonkutė is a researcher at the Lithuanian Literature and Folklore Institute. She completed her joint doctoral studies in Literature at the Lithuanian Literature and Folklore Institute and Vilnius University, and in 2020 defended her PhD thesis on collective memory in the Lithuanian and Latvian press during the Revival period at the end of the 20th century. On the basis of this thesis she prepared and published a monograph (2024). She has held research fellowships at the University of Latvia and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has contributed to several documentary films and joint Lithuanian-Latvian cultural and scientific projects. V. Jonkutė is a member of the Memory Studies Association (The Netherlands) and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (USA). Read more: litbalt.weebly.com