Gintarė Bernotienė studied Lithuanian Literature at the University of Vytautas Magnus in Kaunas and obtained PhD in Lithuanian Literature (2002) from the University of Vytautas Magnus and the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (Lithuania).
She is a senior researcher, literary critic, academic staff member at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Department of Contemporary Lithuanian Literature, Vilnius, Lithuania (since 2006), member of Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association and managing editor of the academic journal Colloquia (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, since 2010).
Her research interests include contemporary Lithuanian poetry, comparative literature, poetry translations, memory studies, Soviet literature, visual art. She published monographs Menų sąveikos ieškojimai: Judita Vaičiūnaitė ir Leonardas Gutauskas (Searching for the Interrelations between Arts: On the basis of Judita Vaičiūnaitė and Leonardas Gutauskas poetry, 2002) and Apie žodžių sandūros tikslumą: Juditos Vaičiūnaitės lyrikos vertimai ir vertinimai (About the Exact Confluence of Words: Translations and Evaluations of Judita Vaičiūnaitė’s Poetry, 2016), edited Judita Vaičiūnaitė’s Oeuvre (3 vol., 2005-2008; introduction, comments).
