E-mail address	milan.kendra@unipo.sk
Room No.	399
Consulting hours	termíny konzultácií
Research/art/teacher profile:	VUPCh
Further details:	Erasmus+ coordinator at Institute of Slovak and Media Strudies

 

Assistant Professor, Teacher Training and Educational Science, Philology

 

Higher education and further qualification growth:

• 2017: PhDr. academic degree in study programme Slovak Language and Literature in academic study field 2.1.27 Slovak Language and Literature after defending the rigorosa thesis entitled Slovak Literature of the Period of Realism in Literary Studies and Practice of Interpretation (Prešov: Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov 2017. 123 pp.)
• 2008: PhD. (Doctor of Philosophy) after defending the dissertation entitled On the Concept of Comic in Contemporary Slovak Fiction (Prešov: Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov 2008. 145 pp.)
• 2004 – 2008: the completion of PhD. (doctoral) study programme in academic study field 81-02-9 Literary Studies
• 2004: submitted and defended the diploma thesis On the Category of Comic (in the Fiction by P. Vilikovský) (Prešov: Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov 2004. 112 pp.)
• 1999 – 2004: M. A. degree in academic study field Teacher Training in Academic Subjects (majored in Teacher Training in English and Slovak Language and Literature).

 

Current and previous employment:

• since 2009: Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov (Assistant Professor)
• 2008 – 2009: Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov (Assistant Professor) – part time
• 2004 – 2009: full time secondary school teacher and part time lecturer at training and consulting centre

 

Current and previous membership on committees and editorial boards

• since 2009: Member of Committee for examina rigorosa in study programme Slovak Language and Literature (Study field II. Slovak Literature)
• 2014 – 2020: Chair of Department of Slovak Literature and Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov
• 2013 – 2015: Chair of Advisory Board 2 Slavonic Literatures, Editorial Board of Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov.

 

Research focus:

• Theoretical concepts in literary studies
• Literary representation
• Interpretation and criticism
• 18th and 19th century modern literature
• Realism and fin de siècle period in Slovak literature
• Poetics and axiology of Slovak fiction after 1989
• Communication, semiotic and stylistic aspects of literary texts.

 

Courses taught:

• Lectures and Seminar in Poetics of Literary Work
• Theory of Literature
• Theory of Literary Genres
• Slovak Literature of Realism and Modernism
• World Literature of 18th and 19th Century.

 

Selection of books published:

• Kendra, M. (ed.): K vybraným aspektom slovenskej literatúry po roku 1989 IV. Interkultúrne komunikačné a komparatistické výzvy. Prešov 2022
• Kendra, M. (ed.): K vybraným aspektom slovenskej literatúry po roku 1989 II. Interpretačné a intermediálny výzvy. Prešov 2021
• Kendra, M. – Forgáč, M. (eds.): Poetologické súradnice literárnych fikcií filozofov a filozofiek/Poetological Aspects of Literary Fiction by Philosophers. World Literature Studies 2/2018. Časopis pre výskum svetovej literatúry. Bratislava, Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV 2018
• Kendra, M.: Korelácie témy a jazyka v slovenskom literárnom realizme. Prešov 2017
• Kendra, M.: Kontúry slovenskej prózy obdobia realizmu. Prešov 2013.

 

Grants:

a) Co-investigator/participant

• Dictionary of Literary Works in Slovak Literature after 1989; APVV 18-0043 (2019 – 2022)
• Lexicon of Slovak Literature and Culture 1989 – 2015 (Authors, Works of Art, Processes and Intermedial Overlaps); VEGA 1/0523/18 (2018 – 2021)
• Personalities and Peculiarities in Slovak Literature after 2000 in an Intermedial Context; VEGA 1/0609/13 (2013 – 2015)
• Values and Key Tendencies of Contemporary Slovak Literature (against the background of cultural and social changes after 1989); VEGA 1/0489/10 (2010 – 2011)
• Trends in the Development of Slovak Literature of the 1950s and 1960s; VEGA 1/0499/09 (2009 – 2011).

 

Awards:

• Rector’s Award of the University of Prešov for the scientific output of employees under 40 years of age, for the editorship of the CCC journal World Literature Studies 2/2018, for scientific work in the CCC journal in the group of scientific disciplines – Humanities/Linguistics and Literary Studies (Prešov 2019)
• Award of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov for achievements in scientific research and publishing activities in the category – Assistant Professors (Prešov 2018).

 

Milan Kendra – research outputs until 2021

Milan Kendra – research outputs after 2022

Milan Kendra – citations corresponding to the research outputs