Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
OUR TEAM
Eva Hohn
Doctor assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts, Matej Bel University, member of the Department of European Cultural Studies, member of the Union of Germanists and Teachers of Slovakia and member of the Center for Language and Language Practice (CLLP) of the Faculty of Arts. She conducted research at the University of Vienna (Austria) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany). As co-ordinator of the Socrates project, she has been involved in introducing Internet practice into higher education. In co-operation with the University of Erfurt, she coordinated the Erasmus project and is currently coordinating Erasmus + Teacher and Student Mobility. She is the author of several monographs on Austrian and German literature and cultural identity. Her pedagogical experience relates to the Cultural Identity of Austria; Beginning of German culture in Europe; Identities and cultures of Germany after 1945.
Lead Researcher
Doctor asisstant professor studied Slovak language and literature and history at the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, where she still works as an assistant professor at the Department of Slovak Literature and Literary Science. In scientific, research, pedagogical and publishing activities she focuses on contemporary Slovak literature with emphasis on selected authors and didactics of literature. She is a co-organizer and coordinator of several popularization events aimed at spreading awareness of contemporary Slovak literature and promoting reading literacy. Since 2013, she has been a member of a university team dedicated to the implementation of service learning in higher education.
Zuzana Bariaková
Researcher
Associate professor Jana Javorcikova´s research specialisation includes Cultural Studies and their role in the present-day era and Literary studies with the focus on the issues of literary canon, world literature and interrelations between literature and culture. Javorčíková has published intensively in the field of her specialisations.
Jana Javorčíková
Researcher
Assistant Professor Eva Reichwalderová, Head of the Department of Romance Studies, specializes in literature of Spanish-speaking countries, teaching Spanish as a foreign language, translation and interpretation. Her research specialization is related mostly to audiovisual translation, relationship between literature and film, literature space in Spanish narrative and teaching of interpretation. She is the author of a monograph about picaresque novel. At present she collaborates in a project mapping the way how ideology in the 20th century Czechoslovakia determined the way Spanish intellectuals were presented in the Czech and Slovak mass media and a project focusing on the process of internationalization at European universities.
Eva Reichwalderová
Researcher