Associate Professor at the Center of Scandinavian Studies, Vilnius University
Atėnė Mendelytė (PhD, Lund University) is a film scholar and Associate Professor at the Center of Scandinavian Studies, Vilnius University. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in film, media, and visual studies. Mendelytė has published numerous articles and anthology chapters on a variety of subjects ranging from Victorian post-mortem photography to Deleuzian film-philosophy in relation to Samuel Beckett’s television plays. Her research primarily focuses on investigating theoretical and philosophical questions in connection to various forms of art (film, photography, theatre, music, and literature) and as part of the MotherNet project she is currently investigating aesthetic mediations of subjectivity in relation to motherhood.
Atėnė had published the following articles:
Mendelytė, A. (2024). The motherly gaze in Aslaug Holm’s Brothers (Brødre, 2015). Studies in European Cinema. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2024.2319406
Atėnė Mendelytė. (2023). Thought Experiments in Video Games: Exploring the (Un)Ethics of Motherhood in Frictional Games’ Amnesia: Rebirth. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231153715
Atene Mendelyte (2022) Creative and crime scene photography: staged patricide and matricide as screen memories in Aida Chehrehgosha’s To Mom, Dad and My Two Brothers, photographies, 15:2, 167-186, DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2022.2060291
