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| Anna T. Litovikina |
On the 22nd of March at 3.00 p.m. at the American Corner in Wrocław Anna T. Litovikina gave a lecture about "Proverbial Changes".
On that day our invited guests included dr Piotr Chruszczewski from the Institute of English Studies (University of Wrocław) and prof. dr hab. Stanisław Prędota from PAN (Polish Academy of Science).
With some of the present students from Wrocław University we discussed the diversifications of American proverbs and their change.
A native of Russia and graduate of the Faculty of Humanities, Moscow State Lomonosov University (1985), prof Litovikina now lives in Hungary. After earning a Ph.D. in Folklore (1994), she became a professor
(1997) at IIIyes Gyula College of Education University of Pécs (Szekszard), where she has taught many courses in linguistics and folklore, as well as in the English and Russian languages.
Anna T. Litovkina has also taught courses on Anglo-American Proverbs and American Wit and Humor at various Hungarian universities, e.g., Janus Pannonius University (Pecs), Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest), and University of Veszprem.
She is the author of nine books and more than sixty articles on American, Hungarian and Russian proverbs. She has published three books in co-authorship with Professor Wolfgang Mieder, two of which are collections of proverb transformations:
Twisted Wisdom: Modern Anti-Proverbs (1999), Old Proverbs Never Die, They Just Diversify: A Collection of Anti-Proverbs (2006). She has been awarded a Fulbright research grant which enabled
her to conduct research at the University of California at Berkeley (Department of Anthropology) during the academic year 1998/99.
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Prof dr hab. Stanisław Prędota, Anna T. Litovikina, dr Piotr Chruszczewski |
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