Dr. Renata ŠUKAITYTĖ

Since 2021 researcher at Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Department of Contemporary Lithuanian Culture.
E-mail: renata_sukaityte@yahoo.com

Education

1999 – 2001 MA in Cultural Studies (Film Studies), Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz (Lodz, Poland).

1995 – 1999 BA in Art Studies, Faculty of Arts, Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania).

Doctorate and postdoctoral fellowship

2008 obtained PhD (Humanities, Art Studies) at Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of Arts. Title of the dissertation: Media Art in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the Second Part of the 20th Century –21st Century: Institutional and Artistic Development. Supervisor – prof. dr. Ryszard. W. Kluszczynski (University of Lodz, Poland), research consultant dr. Audronė Žukauskaitė (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute).

2011–2012 - Postdoctoral fellowship at Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, research topic Small Cinema in Global Context:  Filmmaking of Šarūnas Bartas (research adviser dr. Audronė Žukauskaitė).

Membership in professional organisations

She is a member of European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) and Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), as well Lithuanian Filmmakers Union.

Current research interests include Lithuanian and Baltic political and social theme films from the 1990 to the present; neoliberal transformation in Lithuanian and Eastern European cinema and audiovisual culture; film as a form of national and transnational collective memory.

Main publications

Monographs

R. Šukaitytė. Politics, Memory and Individuali in Šarūnas Bartas Films [Politika, atmintis ir individas Šarūno Barto filmuose] (work in progress)

A. Mikonis-Railienė (ed.), R. Šukaitytė (ed.), Martišius M., Stonytė R. Political Breakthrough on Screen: (Post) Communist Transformation in Lithuanian Documentary Cinema and Video Chronicle [Politinis lūžis ekrane: (po)komunistinė transformacija Lietuvos dokumentiniame kine, videokronikoje ir televizijoje], Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2020. ISBN 978-609-07-0362-5, 1-374.

Edited books:

R. Šukaitytė (ed.); K. Kirtiklis (ed.). Socialinės tikrovės meditacija: kultūra, politika, visuomenė. Vilnius:  VU leidykla, 2018. ISBN 9786094599316

R.Šukaitytė (ed.). Kinas ir filosofija. Athena. Filosofijos studijos, Nr. 9. Vilnius: LKTI, 2014. ISSN 1822-5047.   

R.Šukaitytė (ed.); Ch. Hales (ed.), The Garden of Digital Delights: Rethinking Cross-media Practices in Contemporary Art and Culture, Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis. Vilnius: VDA leidykla, 2012, Vol 67. ISBN 978-609-447-070-7.

R.Šukaitytė (ed.). Baltic Cinemas After 90’s: Shifting (Hi)Stories and (Id)Entities. Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, Vilnius: VDA leidykla, 2010, Vol 56. ISBN 978-9955-854-85-2.

Selected refereed articles and book chapters:

Šukaitytė, R. Karo Ukrainoje įrodymai Šarūno Barto filme „Šerkšnas“ (2017), Meno istorijos studijos, t. 10, sudaryt. Lina Balaišytė, Gabija Surdokaitė-Vitienė, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2021. ISSN 2783-6193, p. 261-290.

Šukaitytė, R. Contemporary Lithuanian Documentary Cinema: A Critical Overview of Main Film Directions, Apertúra (Film–Visuality–Theory). Contemporary Documentary in Central and Eastern Europe, sudarytojai L. Stőhr and E. Török, Szeged: Pompeji Alapítvány,  Fall 2021, ISSN 1787-7245.
Interaktyvus: https://www.apertura.hu/2021/osz/sukaityte-contemporary-lithuanian-documentary-cinema-a-critical-overview-of-main-film-directions/

E. Mazierska,; R. Šukaitytė. Representation of poverty in Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian documentary films of the postcommunist period. Studies in Eastern European cinema. Taylor&Francis. 2020, Vol. 11, iss. 1, p. 67–81.

R. Šukaitytė. Šaltasis karas, Sovietų Sąjungos griūtis ir Baltijos šalių nepriklausomybė Jaak Kilmi „Disko ir atominis karas“ ir Jono Meko „Lietuva ir SSRS žlugimas“ filmuose. Socialinės tikrovės mediacija: kultūra, politika ir visuomenė. Sudarė Renata Šukaitytė, Kęstas Kirtiklis. VU leidykla, 2018, p. 105–129.

R. Šukaitytė. Desires and Memories of a Small Man. The Documentaries of Lithuanian Filmmaker Audrius Stonys. European Visions: Small Cinemas in Transition. Editors J. Blankenship, T. Nagl, Transcript-Verlag, 2015, p. 100–114.

R. Šukaitytė. Lithuania Redirected: The New Connections, Businesses and Lifestyles on the National Screen. East West and Center. Reframing post-1989 European Cinema. Editors M. Gott and T.Herzog, Edinburgh University Press, 2015, p. 175–190.

R. Šukaitytė. The Apparitions of a Day Gone by and a Stasis of the Present in films by Šarūnas Bartas. Small Cinemas in Global Markets: Genres, Identities, Narratives. Editor L. Giukin, J. Falkowska, Lexington Books, 2015, p. 107–120.

R. Šukaitytė. Practice-based Film Education in Lithuania: Main Actors and Sites of Struggles. The Education of the Filmmaker: Views from Around the World. Editor M. Hjort, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, p. 25–44.

Ancillary activities (selected)

Member of editorial boards

Since 2014 –  member of editorial board of Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Taylor & Francis group.

Since 2013 – present, member of editorial board Baltic Screen Media Review, Baltic Film and Media School, Tallinn University.

Expert work (most recent)

2021-2022 – member of the review panel of the Call Transformations: Social and Cultural Dynamics in the Digital Age, CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe), co-created by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) and NORFACE (New opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe) networks,

Since 2019 – expert of Research Council of Lithuania

2018-2016 – expert of Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (Vilnius, Lithuania)