Ieva Stončikaitė
Biographic Data
| ID | 6535182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ieva Stončikaitė |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ieva |
| FAMILY NAME | Stončikaitė |
| SIGNATURE | STONČIKAITĖ I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Lleida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1225-6137 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
García Márquez’s ‘last’ female protagonist
The article focuses on the portrayal of a middle-aged woman, Ana Magdalena Bach, as depicted in Gabriel García Márquez’s posthumously published work Until August (Citation2024). It analyses the complexities of female ageing, with a particular focus on the intersection of ageism and sexism. What makes the examination of García Márquez’s ‘last’ work particularly compelling is that, for the first time in his literary career, he chose to write from a…
Lifelong learning in age-inclusive higher education
Adopting a case study approach within the Inclu-Linguam research project on inclusion, multilingualism, and interculturality in higher education, this article reports on the challenges and opportunities encountered by older learners at a highly internationalized university in Barcelona. At this university, which welcomes older students through an intergenerational life-long learning program, formal instruction is provided in the two official loca…
Beyond stigma and biomedical frameworks
Contemporary biomedical and pathologizing interpretations of dementia negatively affect the quality of care and limit the narrative agency of people living with the condition. Although the progression of dementia involves a decline in memory, communicative clarity, and reasoning, personhood can be conveyed through narratives, social interaction, and embodied communication. In advanced stages of dementia, especially, the body itself becomes a narr…
Reimagining the ‘Lost’ narratives of advanced dementia through literature and critical fabulation
The progression of dementia significantly affects the abilities to communicate needs or experiences, often rendering the inner lives or narratives inaccessible to others. This increases the risk of narratives becoming 'lost' and people living with dementia becoming subject to narrative dispossession. However, even as communicative clarity diminishes, meaningful expressions persist, necessitating empathic and creative approaches to engaging with t…
The ‘inside’ of ageing
This article underlines the potential of autoethnography as interdisciplinary qualitative methodology to improve research and pedagogy in critical geragogy. It argues that autoethnography, broadly expanding and yet still only fairly legitimized approach, can serve as an ageism intervention, an act of activism, and sociocultural critique to raise awareness about gender- and age-based discrimination in an adult educational context. First-person rep…
Venetian travel narratives in Erica Jong’s work
This article focuses on Erica Jong's and her fictional characters' travel experiences in Venice, which is portrayed as a carefree and sensual destination. Jong demonstrates how female solo travelling can help challenge unequal gender roles, explore female sexuality regardless of one's age, and rewrite the narratives of the Grand Tour. However, in her later works, the depiction of Venice transitions from a glorification of its charm to portraying …
Profiguration, Active Ageing, and Creativity
This article is based on qualitative analysis of interviews and focus groups conducted with participants enrolled in the Senior Programme of the University of Lleida, the City Council of Lleida, and care homes, as well as professional workers in the field of gerontology and related areas. It presents the analysis of interviews focused on the participants' life trajectories, ageing, creativity, self-perception, and quality of life. The study aimed…
Roald Dahl's eerie landlady
This article examines Roald Dahl's adult short story 'The Landlady' through the lens of age studies and the horror genre. It explores how different symbolic and gothic textual elements contribute to the narrative of decline and the negative notion of later life. Special attention is given to female aging and dementia, which is presented as a horrifying 'silent killer' embodied in the figure of a witch. In the story, older age is portrayed as a so…
Baby-boomers hitting the road
An increasing growth of older people has caused significant socioeconomic transformations for almost all sectors of society, including the tourism industry. In the last decades, older adults have become an important target group for the leisure tourism market on a global scale. It is estimated that older individuals, especially the representatives of the baby-boom generation, will be responsible for a relatively large share of all holiday spendin…
Literary mentorship on the art of living, aging and dying
This article offers a fresh examination of Mitch Albom's bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie (1997) from a perspective of literary age studies, with a special focus on the concept of later-life mentorship. The classic mentor figure, commonly seen as the archetype of a wise old teacher, is revived through the healing power of an end-of-life narrative. The mentorial relationship between a young man and an old man shows that the personal growth is as an…
On the Hunt for Noble Savages
Casual sexual encounters are closely wedded to leisure travel, and have received a lot of attention in both theoretical and empirical work. However, the relationship between romance tourism and female ageing remains largely under-researched. This article offers critical insights into the interplay of the successful ageing and sexual relationships abroad of older women travellers. It shows that romance tourism has both positive and negative implic…
A Creative Writing Workshop on Sexuality and Ageing
Negative stereotypes about old age abound in our present-day society, which often considers older people as sexually incapable or even asexual. On the other hand, active ageing ideologies foster the practice of sex in later life as a sign of healthy and active ageing. The aim of this pilot case study was to examine the impact that poetry on sexuality, ageing and creativity had on older individuals. In total eight participants, aged 49–76, partici…
To lift or not to lift? The dilemma of an aging face in Erica Jong's later works
Critical Approaches to Ageing Body Politics in the Works of Erica Jong
The ways we read our bodies and bodily transformations are deeply inscribed in cultural meanings that vary across different historical times and societies. Even if the desire to achieve culturally imposed beauty standards and ideals is relevant to all age groups, anxieties about bodily decline become more pronounced as we approach the final stages of our lives. Physical changes are never just manifestations of cellular and organic loss, but can a…
Ageing, Creativity, and Memory
Taking a life-course perspective, this article considers the intersections of creativity, memory, and ageing in Erica Jong’s middle and later works, and explores underlying changes in the author’s self-perception as a writer. It demonstrates the substitution of Jong’s initial “fear of writing” by increased self-knowledge, courage to speak her mind, and gradual capacity to ignore negative criticism in later years. Although her later life works and…
No, My Husband Isn’t Dead, [But] One Has to Re-Invent Sexuality’
New biomedicalized forms of longevity, anti-aging ideals, and the focus on successful aging have permeated the current sociocultural and political climate, and will affect the future of aging. This article examines changing attitudes towards sexual practices and the perception of sexuality in later years, as exemplified in Erica Jong’s middle and late life works and interviews. Instead of succumbing to anti-aging culture and biomedicalization of …
Baby-boomers hitting the road
An increasing growth of older people has caused significant socioeconomic transformations for almost all sectors of society, including the tourism industry. In the last decades, older adults have become an important target group for the leisure tourism market on a global scale. It is estimated that older individuals, especially the representatives of the baby-boom generation, will be responsible for a relatively large share of all holiday spendin…
To lift or not to lift? The dilemma of an aging face in Erica Jong's later works
No, My Husband Isn’t Dead, [But] One Has to Re-Invent Sexuality’
New biomedicalized forms of longevity, anti-aging ideals, and the focus on successful aging have permeated the current sociocultural and political climate, and will affect the future of aging. This article examines changing attitudes towards sexual practices and the perception of sexuality in later years, as exemplified in Erica Jong’s middle and late life works and interviews. Instead of succumbing to anti-aging culture and biomedicalization of …
Roald Dahl's eerie landlady
This article examines Roald Dahl's adult short story 'The Landlady' through the lens of age studies and the horror genre. It explores how different symbolic and gothic textual elements contribute to the narrative of decline and the negative notion of later life. Special attention is given to female aging and dementia, which is presented as a horrifying 'silent killer' embodied in the figure of a witch. In the story, older age is portrayed as a so…
No, My Husband Isn’t Dead, [But] One Has to Re-Invent Sexuality’
New biomedicalized forms of longevity, anti-aging ideals, and the focus on successful aging have permeated the current sociocultural and political climate, and will affect the future of aging. This article examines changing attitudes towards sexual practices and the perception of sexuality in later years, as exemplified in Erica Jong’s middle and late life works and interviews. Instead of succumbing to anti-aging culture and biomedicalization of …
Ageing, Creativity, and Memory
Taking a life-course perspective, this article considers the intersections of creativity, memory, and ageing in Erica Jong’s middle and later works, and explores underlying changes in the author’s self-perception as a writer. It demonstrates the substitution of Jong’s initial “fear of writing” by increased self-knowledge, courage to speak her mind, and gradual capacity to ignore negative criticism in later years. Although her later life works and…
Critical Approaches to Ageing Body Politics in the Works of Erica Jong
The ways we read our bodies and bodily transformations are deeply inscribed in cultural meanings that vary across different historical times and societies. Even if the desire to achieve culturally imposed beauty standards and ideals is relevant to all age groups, anxieties about bodily decline become more pronounced as we approach the final stages of our lives. Physical changes are never just manifestations of cellular and organic loss, but can a…
On the Hunt for Noble Savages
Casual sexual encounters are closely wedded to leisure travel, and have received a lot of attention in both theoretical and empirical work. However, the relationship between romance tourism and female ageing remains largely under-researched. This article offers critical insights into the interplay of the successful ageing and sexual relationships abroad of older women travellers. It shows that romance tourism has both positive and negative implic…
A Creative Writing Workshop on Sexuality and Ageing
Negative stereotypes about old age abound in our present-day society, which often considers older people as sexually incapable or even asexual. On the other hand, active ageing ideologies foster the practice of sex in later life as a sign of healthy and active ageing. The aim of this pilot case study was to examine the impact that poetry on sexuality, ageing and creativity had on older individuals. In total eight participants, aged 49–76, partici…
To lift or not to lift? The dilemma of an aging face in Erica Jong's later works
Baby-boomers hitting the road
An increasing growth of older people has caused significant socioeconomic transformations for almost all sectors of society, including the tourism industry. In the last decades, older adults have become an important target group for the leisure tourism market on a global scale. It is estimated that older individuals, especially the representatives of the baby-boom generation, will be responsible for a relatively large share of all holiday spendin…
Literary mentorship on the art of living, aging and dying
This article offers a fresh examination of Mitch Albom's bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie (1997) from a perspective of literary age studies, with a special focus on the concept of later-life mentorship. The classic mentor figure, commonly seen as the archetype of a wise old teacher, is revived through the healing power of an end-of-life narrative. The mentorial relationship between a young man and an old man shows that the personal growth is as an…
Profiguration, Active Ageing, and Creativity
This article is based on qualitative analysis of interviews and focus groups conducted with participants enrolled in the Senior Programme of the University of Lleida, the City Council of Lleida, and care homes, as well as professional workers in the field of gerontology and related areas. It presents the analysis of interviews focused on the participants' life trajectories, ageing, creativity, self-perception, and quality of life. The study aimed…
Roald Dahl's eerie landlady
This article examines Roald Dahl's adult short story 'The Landlady' through the lens of age studies and the horror genre. It explores how different symbolic and gothic textual elements contribute to the narrative of decline and the negative notion of later life. Special attention is given to female aging and dementia, which is presented as a horrifying 'silent killer' embodied in the figure of a witch. In the story, older age is portrayed as a so…
The ‘inside’ of ageing
This article underlines the potential of autoethnography as interdisciplinary qualitative methodology to improve research and pedagogy in critical geragogy. It argues that autoethnography, broadly expanding and yet still only fairly legitimized approach, can serve as an ageism intervention, an act of activism, and sociocultural critique to raise awareness about gender- and age-based discrimination in an adult educational context. First-person rep…
Venetian travel narratives in Erica Jong’s work
This article focuses on Erica Jong's and her fictional characters' travel experiences in Venice, which is portrayed as a carefree and sensual destination. Jong demonstrates how female solo travelling can help challenge unequal gender roles, explore female sexuality regardless of one's age, and rewrite the narratives of the Grand Tour. However, in her later works, the depiction of Venice transitions from a glorification of its charm to portraying …
Reimagining the ‘Lost’ narratives of advanced dementia through literature and critical fabulation
The progression of dementia significantly affects the abilities to communicate needs or experiences, often rendering the inner lives or narratives inaccessible to others. This increases the risk of narratives becoming 'lost' and people living with dementia becoming subject to narrative dispossession. However, even as communicative clarity diminishes, meaningful expressions persist, necessitating empathic and creative approaches to engaging with t…
García Márquez’s ‘last’ female protagonist
The article focuses on the portrayal of a middle-aged woman, Ana Magdalena Bach, as depicted in Gabriel García Márquez’s posthumously published work Until August (Citation2024). It analyses the complexities of female ageing, with a particular focus on the intersection of ageism and sexism. What makes the examination of García Márquez’s ‘last’ work particularly compelling is that, for the first time in his literary career, he chose to write from a…
Lifelong learning in age-inclusive higher education
Adopting a case study approach within the Inclu-Linguam research project on inclusion, multilingualism, and interculturality in higher education, this article reports on the challenges and opportunities encountered by older learners at a highly internationalized university in Barcelona. At this university, which welcomes older students through an intergenerational life-long learning program, formal instruction is provided in the two official loca…
Beyond stigma and biomedical frameworks
Contemporary biomedical and pathologizing interpretations of dementia negatively affect the quality of care and limit the narrative agency of people living with the condition. Although the progression of dementia involves a decline in memory, communicative clarity, and reasoning, personhood can be conveyed through narratives, social interaction, and embodied communication. In advanced stages of dementia, especially, the body itself becomes a narr…
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Art (10 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Literature (8 works) · Narrative (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works)