Ieva Bisigirskait. is a Research Fellow and a Lecturer at Vilnius University. Her research focuses on the intersection of feminist sociolinguistics, critical motherhood studies, nationalism, and maternal activism, as well as queer onomastics within post-socialist contexts. She earned her doctorate in Gender Studies and Eastern European Studies from the University of Zurich (2020) with her dissertation “Choosing a surname of her own: non(neo)-traditional femininities in contemporary Lithuania.”