Dovydaitytė, Linara

Abstract

Linara Dovydaitytė (Ph.D. in art history) is an associate professor at the Department of Art History and Criticism, Faculty of Arts, and a senior researcher at Vytautas Kavolis Transdisciplinary Research Institute at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. 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), 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), and the article ‘Curating Industrial Memories in a Museum: An Artistic Approach’ in the Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi (2023). 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).