doc. Mgr. Janka Kaščáková, PhD.
Where to find me
Department of English Language and Literature
Hrabovská cesta 1B
03401 Ružomberok
Office: 324
Phone:
+421918 722 053
Email: janka.kascakova@ku.sk
Consulting hours
| Monday | 15:30 - 17:00 |
Professional characteristics
Education:
2019 Associate Professorship (Readership) in English literature, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
2007 PhD. in English Literature, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
1998 Master’s Degree in English Language and Literature and French Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Prešov University in Prešov, Slovakia
Research interests:
19th and early 20th century English literature, modernism in English literature, modernist short story, Katherine Mansfield, Regency and Victorian literature, Jane Austen, fantasy literature, J.R.R. Tolkien, history of the British Isles and English literature
Work experience:
2020 – present Associate Professor (Reader), Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
2000 – 2019 Assistant professor / Senior Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
2006-2013 Head of the Department of English Language and Literature, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
2008-2011 Vice-Dean for International Relations and Academic Mobility, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
2012, 2013, 2016, 2018 Visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
Professional memberships:
Vice-president of the Katherine Mansfield Society (New Zealand)
Member of the Slovak Association for the Study of English (Member of the European Society for the Study of English, ESSE)
Member of the editorial board of Eger Journal of English Studies (Hungary)
Publications
Selected publications:
Books
Katherine Mansfieldová – Medzi dvoma svetmi. [Katherine Mansfield: Between Two Worlds] Ružomberok: Verbum, 2015, 154 pp.
Katherine Mansfield: Nerozvážna cesta a iné poviedky [An Indiscreet Journey and Other Stories]; transl. Janka Kaščáková. Ružomberok: Verbum, 2013, 220 pp.
Edited Volumes
Katherine Mansfield: International Approaches. Eds. Janka Kascakova, Gerri Kimber, Władysław Witalisz. New York and London: Routledge, 2022.
Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe: Connections and Influences. Eds. Janka Kascakova, Gerri Kimber. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Does It Really Mean That: Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous. Eds. Kathleen Dubs, Janka Kaščáková. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.
Middle-earth and Beyond: Essays on the World of J.R.R. Tolkien Eds. Kathleen Dubs, Janka Kaščáková. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
Articles and Book Chapters
"Compassion and Moral Responsibility: Emma and 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel'", in Janka Kascakova, Gerri Kimber and Władysław Witalisz (eds.), Katherine Mansfield: International Approaches, New York and London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 101-114.
"Kezia a ‘ninseck’, Kezia the Bee", in Gerri Kimber and Todd Martin (eds.), Katherine Mansfield and Children, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
“’Eating the banks away’: The Conflict between the Traditional and the Modernist in Katherine Mansfield’s New Zealand Stories”, in: in esse: English Studies in Albania: Journal of the Albanian Society for the Study of English (ASSE), Vol. 10, No. 1 (2019), pp. 18-31.
“Katherine Mansfield’s Children at Play“, in Joyce E. Kelley (ed.), Children’s Play in Literature: Investigating the Strengths and the Subversions of the Playing Child, series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present, New York: Routledge 2019, pp. 124-142.
“Death by Ink: Symbolism of Ink in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘The Fly’”, in Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson (eds.), Re-forming World Literature: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story, Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2018, pp. 287-304.
“Modernism vs. Modernity: Katherine Mansfield as Critic”, Brno Studies in English. Vol. 42, No. 2 (2016), pp. 5-19.
“‘For all Parisians are more than half–‘ Stereotypes and Physical Love in Katherine Mansfield’s Writing”, in Claire Davison and Gerri Kimber (eds.), Katherine Mansfield’s French Lives, Leiden, Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 2016, pp. 81-91.
“‘Ginger Whiskers’ and ‘Glad-Eyes’: Translations of Katherine Mansfield Stories into Slovak and Czech”, Katherine Mansfield Studies, Vol. 7, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015, pp. 31-46.
‘”My dear, incomparable, priceless, Kateřina Mansfieldová” – The Reception and Translations of Katherine Mansfield in (the former) Czechoslovakia’, in Janka Kascakova and Gerri Kimber (eds.), Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe: Connections and Influences, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 40-55.
“Katherine Mansfield: How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped“, in The Explicator. Vol. 72, No. 2 (2014), pp. 118-121.
“The greatest of all garden parties” – the Great War, Memory and Myth in Katherine Mansfield’s Critical Writing”, in American and British Studies Annual. Vol. 6 (2013), pp. 88-99.
‘“Ironing-because-its-Tuesday” – Significant Presences and Absences in Katherine Mansfield’s “How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped”,’ in Nóra Séllei and Katarina Labudova (eds.), Presences and Absences: Transdisciplinary Essays, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 171-186.
“The Uncomfortable Hero: J.R.R. Tolkien’s and Peter Jackson’s Aragorn in Dialogue with Éowyn and Arwen. In Valentina Marinescu and Silvia Branea (eds.), Fiction in the media or media in the fiction, Bucharest: Editura Universitatii Bucuresti (University of Bucharest Publishing House), 2012, pp. 68-78.
“‘Blue with Cold’: Coldness in the Works of Katherine Mansfield”. In Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber, Susan Reid (eds.) Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism, London: Continuum, 2011, pp. 188-201.
“’It Snowed Food and Rained Drink’ in the Lord of the Rings”. In Kathleen Dubs, Janka Kaščáková (eds.), Middle-earth and Beyond: Essays on the World of J.R.R. Tolkien. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, pp. 91-104.
“Meeting of the Traditional and the Modern: Jane Austen´s Emma and Katherine Mansfield´s ‘A Cup of Tea’”, in American and British Studies Annual. Vol. 3 (2010), pp. 51-60.
“Speaking Silence in ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel“, The AnaChronisT. Volume 15 (2010), pp. 93-103.
“Katherine Mansfieldová: The Reception of Katherine Mansfield in the Countries of Former Czechoslovakia”, Katherine Mansfield Studies, Edinburgh University Press, 2009, pp. 53-67.
“’My Flowerless Ones’: Representations of Unmarried Women in the Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield”, Brno Studies in English, Volume 35, No. 1, (2009), pp. 137-145.