Born on 18 March 1940 in Kaunas.
He attended Biržai 2nd Secondary School, graduated from Vilnius University in 1962 with a degree in Lithuanian Studies. 1962-1965 - internship at Riga University. In 1966-1972 he was a junior research fellow at the Institute of Lithuanian Language and Literature. From 1972 he worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Lithuanian Studies of the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute, from 1989 to 1991 he was the head of the Department of Lithuanian and Foreign Literature, and from 1991 to 1996 he was the head of the Department of Universal Literature. Doctor of Philology in 1986. Since 1992, he has also been a lecturer at Vilnius University, Head of the Department of Literary Theory (since 2002 - Theory and History of Literature) from 1998-2005, Head of the A.J. Greimas Centre for Semiotic Studies in 2007-2008, and currently a professor emeritus.