Dr Jurgita Macijauskaitė-Bonda is a Lithuanian folklore researcher. Her academic interests include children’s folklore, the image of the child in folklore, folkloric intertexts, and translation. She has published a monograph “Vaikas lietuvių pasakose ir sakmėse” (“The Child in Lithuanian Folk Tales and Legends”, 2015) and is a co-author of the book “Šiuolaikinis moksleivių folkloras” (“Contemporary Schoolchildren’s Folklore”, Anglickienė et al., 2013). She has also participated in different folklore research and digitization projects. Currently Macijauskaitė-Bonda works as a lecturer at the Department of Foreign Language, Literary, and Translation Studies at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.
