In the current project Anna explores the conventions of academic writing in Lithuanian by focusing on structural features, strategies of argumentation and author stance attested in various academic genres (research articles, reviews, reports).

Anna’s research interests include evidentiality, epistemic modality, evaluation, stance, corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics, academic discourse and media discourse. In 2013 she defended her PhD thesis The Expression and Contents of Non-Morphological Evidentiality in Lithuanian: The Case of Neuter Adjectives and Adverbs at Vilnius University. She has participated in national projects related to stance, modality, evidentiality, discourse markers (i.e. Lithuanian academic discourse: Investigating author stance in Lithuanian academic discourse; Realizations of modality and evidentiality in Lithuanian; Discourse markers in Lithuanian: a synchronic and diachronic study . In 2012 – 2013 she was on a research stay in Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Institute of Linguistics, Department of Baltic Languages), and in 2014 – 2015 she was on a study visit as a postdoc researcher at the University of Vienna (Department of English and American Studies). Anna is a member of such international associations as SLE, ESSE and IPrA.