Born 27 May 1976 in Panevėžys.
1994-2000 studied Lithuanian Philology at Vilnius University. 1999-2008 worked as a critical editor at "Metai" magazine, 2002-2003 studied Judaica (Yiddish language and literature) at the Centre for Hebrew and Judaic Studies at Oxford University.
In 2006, he defended his doctoral dissertation "Early Literary Modernism in Vilnius (1904-1915)" at Vilnius University, which was awarded the prize of the Young Scientists' Union and the Gerhard Ruef Stiftung as the best dissertation in the Lithuanian humanities and social sciences that year.
Lecturer at the Department of Lithuanian Literature at Vilnius University. Since 2008 - Director of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore.
Since 2006, he has been organising the annual seminar "Islands of Literature" for literature students and teachers, and since 2008 - the Classics Readings at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. He is a member of the Committee for National Culture and Art Prizes, a member of the Commission for the Development of Lithuanian Studies under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, a member of the Commission for the Enhancement of Lithuanian Traditions and Heritage under the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.