Associate Professor,
holds endowed Chair of Lithuanian Studies
Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street, 1600 University Hall
Chicago, IL 60607-7116

Phone: (312) 996-7856
Fax: (312) 996-0953
E-mail address: kelertas@uic.edu

Education
B.A., English Language and Literature, University of Toronto, 1962
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984
Area of Specialization
Literary Theory
Lithuanian Prose Fiction
Literary Translation
Feminist Literature and Criticism
Current Research
I am working on compiling and editing an anthology of Baltic postcolonialist criticism with contributions both from the West and from the Baltic States.

For The Dictionary of Literary Biography I am finishing a 40 page entry on the Lithuanian-American playwright Kostas Ostrauskas.
I have a contract pending with Northwestern University Press and for the series Europe Unbound to complete a translation of a novel by the Lithuanian prose writer Ricardas Gavelis.
       
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