Dovydaitytė, Linara

Linara Dovydaitytė (Ph.D. in art history) is an associate professor in the Department of Art History and Criticism at the Faculty of Arts, Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, and a research fellow in Museum Studies at the Institute of Cultural Research, Tartu University, Estonia. Her current research interests include memory culture and museum studies, nuclear aesthetics in art, and representations of industrial heritage in contemporary culture. Her recent publications include the co-authored monograph ‘Learning the Nuclear: Educational Tourism in (Post)Industrial Sites’ (Peter Lang, 2021), the chapter ‘Assembling the Nuclear, Decolonizing the Heritage’ in the book ‘Discovering the New Place of Learning’ (Peter Lang, 2022), and the contribution to the special issue of the Journal of Baltic Studies ‘(Re)Imagining the nuclear in Lithuania following the shutdown of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant’ (2022). Since 2021 she is involved in two international research projects: 'Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations of Nuclear Cultural Heritage (NuSPACES)’ (https://nuspaces.eu/, funded in the framework of JPI) and ‘MNEMUS: Practices and Challenges of Mnemonic Pluralism in Baltic History Museums’ (https://mnemus.ut.ee/project, funded by the Estonian Research Council).