Daiva Vaitkevičienė-Astramskaitė

Daiva Vaitkevičienė-Astramskaitė (born 1969, Panevėžys District, Lithuania) is Lithuanian folklorist, Senior Researcher, Department of Oral Folklore of the

During 1987-1992 she studied Lithuanistics at the Vilnius University. Since 1991 she works at the Lithuanian Institute of Literature and Folklore. Her main interests are in Lithuanian mythology In 1999 she earned Ph.D. in humanitarian sciences, thesis ''Ugnies raiškos lietuvių ir latvių mitologijoje'' [Fire Expressions in Lithuanian and Latvian Mythology].

Member of the editorial board of '': An International Journal on Charms, Charmers and Charming''.

She also teaches at the Vilnius University and is a member of the editorial team of its journal ''Semiotika''. Provided by Wikipedia