Jurga Jonutytė works as a senior researcher at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. She has been teaching philosophy at VMU for 15 years (subjects such as Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Culture, Ecosophy and Theories of Memory). As a researcher Jurga Jonutytė works on oral narratives (individual life stories or memory narratives), analyzing them from the perspectives of phenomenology, post-phenomenology and post-structuralism. She is an author of the monograph Changes in the Concept of Tradition (2011) and a co-author of several collective monographs. She also works as a professional hand weaver.