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Holocaust memory and testimony in Lithuania
Articles
- “The Topography of Transgression: Non-Jewish Testimony to Plunder during the Holocaust in the Lithuanian Provinces,” S:I.M.O.N. – Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation 12, no. 4 (2025): 4–22.
- “Sąsiedzkie spojrzenie na Sąsiadów. Debaty w Litwie na temat Holokaustu” [Neighbors Look to Neighbors: Debates over the Holocaust in Lithuania], with Stanislovas Stasiulis, Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały 21 (2025): 56–69; English version in Holocaust Studies and Materials (2026).
- “The Gaze of the Implicated Subject,” East European Politics and Societies 37, no. 2 (2023).
- “Agonistic Homecomings: Holocaust Postmemory, Perspective and Locality,” Memory Studies 15, no. 3 (2022).
- “Local Testimony and the (Un)Silencing of Sexual Violence in Lithuania under German Occupation during WWII,” Humanities 10 (2021).
- “Genealogical Writing and Memory of the Holocaust in Lithuania,” East European Jewish Affairs 51, no. 3 (2021).
- “Revisiting the TV-Series ‘Holocaust’ Thirty Years On,” Cultures of History Forum (2019).
- “Between the Public and the Personal: A New Stage of Holocaust Memory in Lithuania,” Cultures of History Forum (2018).
Book chapters
• “Testimony to Sexual Violence After Liberation in the Holocaust Memoirs of Sara/Hannah Rigler and Primo Levi,” in Shattered Liberation: Sexualized Violence Against Holocaust Survivors, 1943–1946, ed. Nina Paulovicova, Anna Cichopek-Gajraj and Joanna Beata Michlic (Purdue University Press, 2025), 355–372.- “The Habitus of Holocaust Remembrance during the Thaw in Soviet Lithuania,” in Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered, ed. Bradley Woodworth, Violeta Davoliūtė and Darius Staliūnas (Amsterdam University Press / CEU Press, 2026), 327–352.
Book reviews
- Review of Making Justice Visible: War Crimes Trials, Media and Memory after World War II, ed. Ruth Leiserowitz, Gintarė Malinauskaitė, and Hektoras Vitkus. Lithuanian Historical Studies 28 (2024): 261–265.
- Review of Neapykantos ribos: antisemitizmas Lietuvoje 1944–1990 metais, by Justas Stončius. The Yearbook of Lithuanian History 2 (2024).
- Review of Mediated Memories: Narratives and Iconographies of the Holocaust in Lithuania, by Gintarė Malinauskaitė. Lithuanian Historical Studies 25 (2021): 259–264.
- Review of Holocaust Education in Lithuania. Community, Conflict, and the Making of Civil Society, by Christine Beresniova. Anthropology of East Europe Review 37, no. 1 (2020): 55–58.
Soviet deportations, displacement, and exile narratives
Monographs & edited volumes
• Narratives of Exile and Identity: Soviet Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States, edited with Tomas Balkelis (CEU Press, 2018).
• Population Displacement in Lithuania in the Twentieth Century: Experiences, Identities and Legacies, edited with Tomas Balkelis (Brill, 2016).- Maps of Memory: Trauma, Identity and Exile in Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States, edited with Tomas Balkelis (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, 2012).
Book chapters
- “We Are All Deportees” (CEU Press, 2018).
- “A ‘Forgotten’ History of Soviet Deportation” (Brill, 2016).
- “Testimony of Child Survivors of the Gulag,” in Children and Migration: From Experience to Agency, ed. Jacqueline Knörr (Transcript, 2005).
Dissertation
- Testimony: From the Poetics of Place to the Politics of Memory, PhD dissertation (University of Toronto, 2004).
Articles
- “L’imbrication des expériences historiques. La mémoire de la déportation des Juifs lituaniens par les Soviétiques” [The Entanglement of Historical Experiences: The Memory of the Soviet Deportation of Lithuanian Jews], Ethnologie française 48, no. 2 (2018): 209–224.
- “Multidirectional Memory and the Deportation of Lithuanian Jews,” Ethnicity Studies 2 (2015).
- “Lithuania and the New West–East Migration,” OIKOS: Lithuanian Migration & Diaspora Studies 6, no. 2 (2008): 73–80.
- “Challenges of Trauma: Migration, Integration and the Role of Cultural Competence,” OIKOS: Lithuanian Migration & Diaspora Studies 5, no. 1 (2008): 41–48.
- “Deportee Testimonies and Lithuanian History,” Journal of Baltic Studies 36, no. 1 (2005): 51–68.
- “Varlam Shalamov and the Art of Memory,” Canadian Slavonic Papers 46, no. 4 (2004): 1–23.
Soviet Lithuania: Sovietization, modernity, and late socialism
Monographs & edited volumes
• The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War (Routledge, 2014).
Articles
- “The Rustic Turn during Late Socialism and the Popular Movement against Soviet Rule,” with Odeta Rudling, Canadian Slavonic Papers 65, no. 1 (2023).
- “State of the Art in Studies of Late Socialism in the Baltic States,” Sovijus 8, no. 1 (2020).
- “The Sovietization of Lithuania after WWII: Modernization, Transculturation and the Lettered City,” Journal of Baltic Studies 47, no. 1 (2016).
- “Post-war Reconstruction and the Imperial Sublime in Vilnius during Late Stalinism,” Ab Imperio 2014, no. 1 (2014).
Book chapters
- “From the Long Thaw to the Long Perestroika: Justinas Marcinkevičius, Algirdas Brazauskas, and the Defense of the Post-Soviet Village,” in The Long Perestroika from Below, ed. Juliane Fürst et al. (CEU Press, forthcoming).
Book reviews
- Review of Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union, by Una Bergmane. H-Diplo / Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum, Roundtable Review (15 April 2024).
- Review of Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography, by Polly Jones. Lithuanian Historical Studies 24 (2020): 256–261.
- Review of Baltic Socialism Remembered: Memory and Life Story since 1989, ed. Ene Kõresaar. Journal of Baltic Studies 50, no. 4 (2019): 558–559.
- Review of The Literary Field under Communist Rule, ed. Aušra Jurgutienė and Dalia Satkauskytė. Lithuanian Historical Studies 23 (2019): 244–246.
- Review of The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists, by Tarik Cyril Amar. Journal of Baltic Studies 48, no. 3 (2017): 391–393.
- Review of Vilnius Between Nations: 1795–2000, by Theodore R. Weeks. Journal of Modern History 89, no. 3 (2017): 740–742.
- Review of Children of Rus: Right Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation, by Faith Hillis. Transitions Online (2014).
- Review of Vilnius: City of Strangers, by Laimonas Briedis. Journal of Baltic Studies 40, no. 1 (2009): 340–342.
Film and the screen memory of war
Monographs & edited volumes
• Everyday Representations of War in Late Modernity, with Nerijus Milerius, Lukas Brašiškis, and Agnė Narušytė (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Articles
- “Guardians of the Archive and the Memory of War in Soviet Films after the Thaw,” Journal of Modern European History 24, no. 3 (2026): 383–402.
- “Screening the Holocaust Perpetrator in Lithuania: Purple Smoke (2019) and Izaokas (2019),” Slavic and East European Journal 67, no. 3 (2023): 363–379.
- “The Aesthetics of Justice: Recognition and the Holocaust in Soviet Films of the Thaw,” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 15, no. 2 (2021): 104–121.
- “Cold War Cinema and the Traumatic Turn in Europe: Fact (1980) as a Soviet Mirror of the Holocaust Film,” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 14, no. 1 (2020): 57–71.
- Two articles on Marytė, with Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (2016) and Politologija (2018).
- “The Popular Movement and Postmodernism: Reflections on the Cinema of Sąjūdis,” Athena: Philosophical Studies 3 (2007): 124–134.
Book chapters
- “The Ethnographic Moment of Lithuanian Poetic Documentary: Last Summer of a Homestead (1971) by Robertas Verba,” in The Art of Witnessing: Documentary Literature, Film, and Theater in Eastern Europe and the Baltics, ed. Johanna Lindbladh and Anja Tippner (Amsterdam University Press / CEU Press, 2026), 113–133.
- “Representations of Historical Trauma in the Cinema of Late Twentieth-Century France and Lithuania” (Riga, 2015).
Memory politics and public history
Monographs & edited volumes
• Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered, edited with Bradley Woodworth and Darius Staliūnas (Amsterdam University Press / CEU Press, 2026); series Crisis, Conflict and Security in Central and Eastern Europe; open access.- From Memory Activism to Public History: Commemorating Turning Points in Central and Eastern Europe, edited with Barbara Törnquist-Plewa and Dovilė Budrytė (De Gruyter, Media and Cultural Memory, open access, forthcoming).
- The Routledge Handbook of Memory in Post-Socialist Europe, edited with Dovilė Budrytė (Routledge, forthcoming).
Special issues (guest-edited)
- “Slow Memory: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe,” with Barbara Törnquist-Plewa and Monika Vrzgulová, Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology 72, no. 4 (2024).
- “Memory Activism between Values and Interests: Monuments, Museums and Institutions,” with Thomas Cauvin and Dovilė Budrytė, Politologija 112 (2023).
Articles
- “From Monologue to Dialogue? Museums, Memory, and Identity in the Vilnius Region,” with Neringa Latvytė, Ignė Rasickaitė, and Rūta Vyšniauskaitė, Lituanus 72, no. 1 (2026).
- “Continuity or Change? The Russo-Ukrainian War and Decolonization of Memory in Lithuania,” with Dovilė Budrytė, Global Studies Quarterly 5, no. 4 (2025).
- “Decolonisation in Lithuania? Revisiting the Concept of Cultural Resistance under Foreign Rule since 1990,” kunsttexte.de 1 (2024).
- “The Baltic Model of Civic-Patriotic History,” Journal of Genocide Research 24, no. 2 (2022).
- “Pluralisierung unter Schmerzen. Litauens Umgang mit der Vergangenheit” [Painful Pluralisation: Lithuania’s Handling of the Past], Osteuropa 68, no. 6 (2018).
- “The Prague Declaration of 2008 and its Repercussions in Lithuania: Historical Justice and Reconciliation,” Lituanus 57, no. 3 (2011): 49–62.
Book chapters
- Woodworth, Bradley, Violeta Davoliūtė and Darius Staliūnas, “Introduction,” in Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered, ed. Bradley Woodworth, Violeta Davoliūtė and Darius Staliūnas (Amsterdam University Press / CEU Press, 2026).
- “Introduction: Memory as a Field of Struggle,” with Dovilė Budrytė, in The Routledge Handbook of Memory in Post-Socialist Europe, ed. Dovilė Budrytė and Violeta Davoliūtė (Routledge, forthcoming).
- “Confronting the Legacy of Soviet Collaboration in the Baltic States,” with Eneken Laanes, in The Routledge Handbook of Memory in Post-Socialist Europe, ed. Dovilė Budrytė and Violeta Davoliūtė (Routledge, forthcoming).
- “The Securitization of Memory and the Practice of Public History in the Baltic States,” in Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis, ed. Erica Resende, Dovilė Budrytė and Douglas Becker (Routledge, 2025), 52–70.
- “Lithuania. Fractured and Contested Memory Regimes” (Elanders, 2020).
- “Legislated History in Post-Communist Lithuania,” with Tomas Balkelis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
- “Entangled History, History Education, and Affective Communities in Lithuania,” with Dovilė Budrytė (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Short pieces
- “Glorification, Whitewashing, Erasure: The Populist Challenge to Dealing with the Past in Lithuania,” Global Learning Hub for Transitional Justice and Reconciliation, Berghof Foundation (2025).
- “The Russia–Ukraine War and Historical Memory in the Global South(s),” with Dovilė Budrytė, Lawfare, 30 December 2024.
- “Lithuania’s Postcolonial Iconoclasm,” Cultures of History Forum (2023).
- “The Pop-Cultural Lineage of Russia’s Anti-Fascist Discourse,” Cultures of History Forum (2022).
- “Heroes, Villains and Matters of State: The Partisan and Popular Memory in Lithuania Today,” Cultures of History Forum (2017).
- “Two Speed Memory and Ownership of the Past,” Transitions Online (2016).
Book reviews
- Review of Different Shades of the Past: History as an Instrument of Contemporary International Conflicts, ed. Mateusz Kamionka and Przemysław Łukasik. Journal of Baltic Studies 55, no. 3 (2024): 698–700.
- Review of Lviv and Wrocław, Cities in Parallel? Myth, Memory, and Migration, c. 1890–Present, ed. Jan Fellerer and Robert Pyrah. American Historical Review 128, no. 1 (2023): 434–436.
- Review of Transitional and Retrospective Justice in the Baltic States, by Eva-Clarita Pettai and Vello Pettai. Journal of Baltic Studies 47, no. 3 (2016): 426–428.
- Review of No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders, by Ellen Mickiewicz. Transitions Online (2016).
Translation
- Edward W. Said, Orientalizmas [Orientalism], Lithuanian translation (Vilnius: Apostrofa, 2005).