Dr. Ieva Stončikaitė is Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer

Department of Humanities, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

Ph.D. Cultural and Literary Gerontology, University of Lleida, Spain

Ieva Stončikaitė holds a PhD in Cultural & Literary Gerontology and English Studies. She is currently a Postdoc and English literature lecturer at the Dept. of Humanities at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF, Barcelona). Ieva is also a member of the research group CELCA (University of Lleida, Spain).

Her areas of academic focus include literary and cultural representations of ageing, medical humanities, dementia and care, age-friendly higher education, travel writing, and leisure tourism.

Her publications include:Venetian Travel Narratives in Erica Jong’s Work; Baby-boomers Hitting the Road: The Paradoxes of the Senior Leisure Tourism; and On the Hunt for Noble Savages: Romance Tourism and Ageing Femininities.