Assistant Professor at the Institute for Literary, Cultural and Translation Studies of Vilnius University / Researcher at Institute of English, Romance and Classical Studies
Her main research fields are Classical Reception, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies and Motherhood—specifically in non-motherhood and uncommon motherhood models in classical reception. She is a fellow of GIRLC, Research Group in Classical Literatures Reception, at University of Valencia (Spain) and a fellow of WISPS, Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
Maria has published the following articles:
- El mito del sacrificio de Ifigenia en el film Sophie’s Choice: la dicotomía moral de una madre en el contexto del Holocausto
- Le cinesi de Manuel García y Metastasio en el siglo XXI: el mito de Andrómaca como paradigma de viuda y madre virtuosa en una ópera de salón neoclásica y orientalizante’
