Researchers

Dr. philol., University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities, Head of Department of Latvian and Baltic Studies
Research interests: gastropoetics, historical novel, story of Latvian literature (1920-1956), modern prose
List of works: literatura.lv
E-mail: ieva.kalnina@lu.lv

Dr. philol., Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia, senior researcher; University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities, professor
Research interests: German Baltic culture and literature, gastropoetics, history of Latvian literature (16th–18th)
List of works: Google Scholar, Researchgate
E-mail: mara.grudule@lu.lv

Mg. philol., University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities, lector, researcher
Research interests: history of literature, gender studies, semiotics, gastropoetics
List of works: Academia, Researchgate
E-mail: sigita.kusnere@lu.lv

Dr. philol., University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities, professor and senior researcher
Research interests: comparative literature, Neo-Latin literature and humanism, migration and intercultural literature in a broad diachronic, synchronous and thematic paradigm, including gastropoetics
List of works: Researchgate
E-mail: ojars.lams@lu.lv

Dr. art., University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities, senior researcher; RISEBA docent
Research interests: Latvian food culture, history of cookbooks, Soviet cuisine, culinary heritage
List of works: Google Scholar
E-mail: astra.spalvena@gmail.com

Dr. phil., Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, senior researcher
Research interests: imagology, postcolonialism, comparative literature, literary Baltic studies, migration studies, gastropoetics
List of works: litbalt.weebly.com
E-mail: laura@llti.lt

Mg. soc., University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities, research assistant
Research interests: Culinary code in Latvia during the 1980s and 1990s, photography, ethnography, small villages, social anthropology
E-mail: elinakursite@gmail.com

Dr. phil., University of Bonn, Department of Philosophy, Antique and Medieval Philosophy Section, researcher
Research interests: Jewish Thought, Jewish (Yiddish) literature, and Jewish art in (and from) Baltics
E-mail: ileitane@uni-bonn.de

Dr. philol., University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, docent
Research interests: folklore studies, Jewish studies, gastropoetics, ethnography, cultural anthropology
List of works: Academia
E-mail: svetlana.pogodina@edu.lu.lv

Mg. philol., University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities, researcher
Research interests: Neo-Latinity, gastropoetics, translation studies, reception of antiquity, Latvian literature
List of works: Researchgate
E-mail: martins.laizans@lu.lv

Mg. paed., Mg. cib. hyg., Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Faculty of Food Technology, lector
Research interests: catering service in Latvia, "green" buckwheat, research of the Latvian national cuisine, including research of the cookbooks
List of works: ptf.llu.lv
E-mail: gita.krumina@llu.lv

Dr. philol., Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia, researcher
Research interests: history of Latvian liteature, history of Latvian poetry, literary theory, comparative literature, gastropetics
List of works: Google Scholar
E-mail: ieva2002@inbox.lv

Mg. philol., University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities, researcher
Research interests: theory and history of the novel, narratology, semiotics, history of reading
List of works: Google Scholar
E-mail: arturs.skutelis@lu.lv