Born in 1956 in Vilnius, Lithuania, to a Lithuanian language teacher and a PhD in chemistry. Started his education at Jonas Jablonskis School in Marijampolė, from1966 he studied at 21 and 15 secondary schools in Vilnius. From 1974 to 1979, she studied Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University.From 1980 to 1984, she worked as an assistant at the Lithuanian Literature Department of Vilnius University, and wrote her dissertation on the aesthetic views of Lithuanian neo-romantics under Donatas Saukas. From 1984 to 1994 she worked as an editor at the publishing house "Vaga", and from 1992 to 1994 she worked at the Little Studio of LRT Katalikų Radijas. Since 1994 she has been working at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore in the Department of Contemporary Literature. In 1998 she finished writing and defended her doctoral dissertation in the humanities and published the book Neoromanticism out of Longing: Aesthetic Views of Lithuanian Neoromantics. 1998 Doctor of Humanities. Since 1999 lecturer at Vilnius Pedagogical University, since 2004 associate professor. She has taught courses in the history and theory of literature at Vytautas Magnus University and Klaipėda University as an associate professor and professor. In 2004, together with her colleagues, she founded the LLLA (Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association) and served on its board for fifteen years. She held fellowships at Oxford and Seattle Universities. His main interests are literary hermeneutics, comparative studies and deconstruction. Together with colleagues, she has compiled and published a series of educational books on 20th century literary theory (2006-2011), the textbook of which was awarded the Prize of the Ministry of Education and Science. Author of articles in the Lithuanian Encyclopaedia.