Asta Plechavičiūtė
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In 2001, she obtained a master’s degree in Lithuanian Literature (Children’s Literature) from Vilnius University (the graduate thesis “The fairy tales by Salomėja Nėris”; supervisor Assoc. Prof. Kęstutis Urba.
Currently she is involved in the study “Periodical publications for children and young people during the Soviet period: between ideology and aesthetics”, the purpose of which is to investigate the role of the ideological narrative in periodical publications and the share of artistic expression and literary text in periodicals (newspapers and magazines), their focus on popularising the writers’ creative work and the share of ideologically engaged creative art in them.