peter f. 'rius jílek online

Welcome to my site

I deal with literature as a reviewer and also in a scholarly way. Currently, I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Slovak Literature and Literary Studies of the Institute of Slovak and Media Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov and analyzes gender and sexual configurations in the Slovak literature. The subject of my research within rigorosa (PhDr.) thesis is J. C. Hronsky's mythopoetics. Besides the literary field, I deal with applied linguistics in the context of Slovak as a foreign language. I study international relations at the University of Central Europe too.

Since 2012, I work at the Department of Slovak Language and Literature of the Institute of West Slavic Languages and Literatures of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of University of Zagreb, except 2016-2018, and give practical language seminars, also lectures on literature of the twentieth century, morphology, lexicology and phraseology. I am also a chief of the Lectorate of Slovak language and Culture of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic in Croatia.

• After completing cum laude a master's degree in linguistics and literary studies specialized on Slovak philology at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava in 2008, I was teaching methodology, general theory and interpretation of Slovak literature of the twentieth century and contemporary writers at the Department of Slovak Literature and Literary Studies until 2012.

• Since 2008, I also give lectures on Slovak literature for foreign students at the specialised department of the faculty Studia Academica Slovaca - the Centre for Slovak as a Foreign Language, where I have worked mostly as a teacher of intensive summer and all-year extensive courses, also give lectures for future teachers of Slovak as a foreign language.

• From 2008 to 2010, I was teaching Slovak at the Department of Languages of the Faculty of Pharmacy.

• From 2010 to 2012 I gave lectures on poetics, rhetorics and stylistics at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts.

• In 2012, I was teaching Slovak language and literature as well as geography at private primary Galileo School.

• From 2016 to 2017, I was working at the Unit of Language and Preparatory Studies of the Centre of Continuing Education at Comenius University as a teacher of Slovak as a foreign language and as a representative of the university as an affiliate of the Association of Language Testers in Europe. I was also a main ALTE agenda coordinator in the institute.

• In 2017 I also led seminars of Slovak as a foreign language with a focus on political science at the Faculty of International Relations of the University of Economics.

• Between 2017-2018, I was working as a teacher of Slovak as a foreign language for medical purposes at the Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Medicine of the Slovak Medical University in Bratislava.

I write mainly literary reviews. My contributions have been published in several periodicals, including op-ends for the Slovak edition of Le Monde diplomatique. From 2008 to 2013, I was the editor-in-chief of the Slovak section of the Czech magazine iLiteratura.

For publishing houses KK Bagala and Absynt, I edited books, also translated Lauren Oliver's novel Pandemonium from English to Slovak.

I served as a judge in the literary contempetition Cena cien, and writing contests Cena Fantázie and Zrkadlenia.

I hosted and moderated cultural events with representants of Slovak literary life like Koloman Kertész Bagala, Balla, Peter Balko, Agda Bavi Pain, Ján Púček, Verona Šikulová, Ivan Štrpka, Tomáš Ulej, Marek Vadas or Zuzana Šmatláková.

I wrote poems and sleeve notes to the booklet of the album I Always Tell You... by jazz quartet arranged by musician and producer Milo Suchomel, with whom I worked as a PR consultant and co-writer of a script of the first Gypsy Jazz Festival.

From 2013 to 2015, I was one of the main organizers of the biggest Croatian festival of contemporary Slovak art, Days of Slovak Culture.

From 2013 to 2016, I was a member of the presidency of the Society of Croatian-Slovak Friendship.