Education: 

• Oct 2022-Present: PhD in Political Science | Vilnius University, Lithuania. Dissertation project: “Aesthetics of Protest in Vilnius: Artistic Responses to the Russian War on Ukraine”
  EDUCATION
• Sept 2020–Jan 2022: MA in Politics and Media |Vilnius University, Lithuania. Master’s thesis “Contemporary Poetry as Activism: Poetry Readings in Žemaitė Square as a Collective Feminist Strategy” was awarded as the best thesis in the program in 2022.
• Sept 2017–Jul 2019: MA in Literature, Culture, Media | Lund University, Sweden
• Sept 2013–Jun 2017: BA in Scandinavian Studies | Vilnius University, Lithuania. Spent two semesters at Stockholm University in Sweden as an exchange student. Graduated cum laude. 

Teaching & Research Experience: 

• Feb 2024–Present: Lecturer | Vilnius University, Institute of International relations and Political Science. Teaching Feminist theory class, planning and leading student discussions in seminars and grading student assignments.
• Feb 2023–Present: Lecturer | Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology. Teaching a section on visual arts in the course Gender in culture, planning and leading student discussions in seminars, grading student assignments.
• Jan 2023–Feb 2024: Junior Researcher | International Project CIRCLE. Assisting in conducting qualitative research on circular businesses in Lithuania, conducting interviews, assisting in writing reports and research papers

Šakelaitė, I. (2024) “Emancipatory Poetry: The Žemaitė Square Readings as Feminist Artivism” , Colloquia, 52, pp. 114–130. doi:10.51554/Coll.23.52.07.

Mincyte, D., Bartkienė, A., Bikauskaitė, R., Piroschka Otte, P., Šakelaitė, I. (2025) “What does it mean to care in industrial agriculture?” , Agric Hum Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-025-10709-0.