Paulius V. Subačius, born in 1968, studied Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University. He worked as a lecturer from 1992, and is currently professor of the Theory of Literature at Vilnius University and member of the University Council.

He is a full member of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Sciences, member of the European Society for Textual Scholarship. Author/editor of sixteen books in fields of literature, history, textual scholarship, religion, and academic politics. Among them – the first Guide on Textual Criticism in Lithuanian and several critical editions, printed and digital, of diaries, letters, sermons and poetry of Lithuanian authors.

Subačius published some articles in English in Variants, Editio, Textual Cultures, Filologia XXI. His most recent publication is Twenty-five Years of Religious Freedom, 2016.