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Study area: Philology<\/strong>
\nStudy programme:\u00a0 Slovak Literature<\/strong>
\nPhD studies are carried out in collaboration with Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava.
\nMore information about doctoral studies at the Slovak Academy of Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in doctoral studies at our institute, we recommend you to contact your chosen supervisor in advance and consult with him\/her about your thesis project.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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List of approved dissertation topics for the academic year 2025\/2026 in the study programme Slovak Literature, field of study Philology (full-time and part-time):<\/strong><\/h3>\n

External educational institution:<\/strong> Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n

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Mgr. Martin Braxatoris, PhD.: Ways of forming collective identities in older Slovak literature\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The thesis will be based on the knowledge of the interrelation between narrative structures and collective identities. It will focus on selected works of early Slovak literature that served to defend and assert national and confessional (or other) collective identities. It will examine literary constructions of the origins, character and mission of a given community. Against the background of contemporary rhetorical theory, genre typology and the poetics of myth, the aim is to identify the literary strategies and practices that were used to defend and prove the legitimacy of the community and to praise its origins, significance and role.<\/p>\n

Form of study: internal\/external
\nAdmission of one applicant<\/p>\n

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Mgr. Lenka Ri\u0161kov\u00e1, PhD.: Images of death in selected texts of old Slovak Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n

The motif of death is one of the dominant elements in the literary production of the older periods of development. Death is one of the most important moments in human existence, both religiously and psychologically, and its literary reflection is therefore a valuable source of knowledge about the way people think in different historical periods and stages of their lives. At the same time, the functional, genre and poetic syncretism of older literary monuments makes it possible to trace different ways of dealing with them, depending on the time of their creation or their attachment to particular aesthetic\/poetic systems, but also on their genre classification, function or authorial intention. The aim of the research is to map the literary representation of this phenomenon and to trace its transformations in the literary-historical development from the earliest times to the beginning of the 19th century.<\/p>\n

Form of study: internal\/external
\nAdmission of one applicant<\/p>\n

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Mgr. Ivana Taranenkov\u00e1, PhD.: Images of Masculine Vitality in Slovak Romantic Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n

The subject of the research will be the concept of vitality in Slovak Romantic literature about contemporary literary representations of masculinity. Based on the analysis of texts by Slovak Romantic authors and their setting in contemporary aesthetic, philosophical and social contexts, the dissertation will examine the relationship between vitality and the ideal of masculinity in Slovak Romanticism. It will also show how these ideas related to conventional\/contemporary norms of masculinity and how they contributed to the literary imagery of Slovak Romanticism. The methodological starting point of the dissertation will be research on Romanticism in the national and international environment, as well as the impulses of gender studies (men\u2019s studies).<\/p>\n

Form of study: internal\/external
\nAdmission of one applicant<\/p>\n

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Mgr. Ivana Taranenkov\u00e1, PhD.: <\/strong>Motherhood in Slovak literature of the 19th century<\/strong><\/p>\n

This thesis will focus on literary representations of motherhood in Slovak literature of the long nineteenth century and explore their engagement with ideological and aesthetic contexts. The methodological starting point will be the analysis of the issue of motherhood in contemporary gender studies, taking into account the contemporary social and historical context. The research focuses on the forms of motherhood in literary texts realized in different literary poetics, their ideological background, as well as the gender perspective applied.<\/p>\n

Form of study: internal\/external
\nAdmission of one applicant<\/p>\n

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Mgr. Michal Habaj, PhD.: \u201cEnfants terribles\u201d of Central European literature. Gejza V\u00e1mo\u0161 as a Type of Central European Writer-Philosopher<\/strong><\/p>\n

The dissertation aims to reconstruct the type of Central European writer-philosopher against the background of the social and political changes of the first decades of the 20th century. The research will focus on the work and personality of Gejza Vamos, which will be traced in the context of Slovak modernism and Central European literature, together with the work of Ladislav Kl\u00edma and Stanis\u0142aw Ignacy Witkiewicz.<\/p>\n

Form of study: internal\/external
\nAdmission of one applicant<\/p>\n

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Mgr. Michal Habaj, PhD.: Woman in Modernism<\/strong><\/p>\n

The thesis will focus on the image of women in Slovak literature of the interwar period, taking into account the cultural, social, ideological, and aesthetic contexts of the time. The research will focus on typological variations and forms of femininity as they are realised in literary texts of different poetics (decadence, secession, expressionism, poetism, proletarian literature, etc.) and ideological currents (nationalism, socialism). The starting point is the assumption that modernity has influenced the shape of traditional images of women and created new images that respond to the changed reality in different ways and depending on different environments.<\/p>\n

Form of study: internal\/external
\nAdmission of one applicant<\/p>\n

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Mgr. Tom\u00e1\u0161 Horv\u00e1th, PhD.: The Representation of Reality in Modernism<\/strong><\/p>\n

The research themes of the dissertation focus on the following areas: 1. the peculiarities of the modeling of the fictional world and the representation of reality in modernist texts (in contrast, for example, to the literary trend of realism); 2. the world as a psychic projection of the subject and the resulting implications for the construction of the fictional world: the persistent and uncertain character of reality, frequent motifs of hallucinations, dreams, penetration into another (sometimes transcendent) reality; 3. the problems of the representation of the literary subject and modernist themes: problems of the individual, mortal love, melancholy. It is also possible to choose a monograph on the work of one author, for example, Ivan Min\u00e1rik, or to analyze selected texts by several authors.<\/p>\n

Form of study: internal\/external
\nAdmission of one applicant<\/p>\n

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Mgr. Karol Csiba, PhD.: The writer\/poet as a public role in the context of the first half of the 20th century<\/strong><\/p>\n

This dissertation aims to examine and analyze the specific form of the writer\/poet\u2019s functioning in different social roles in a selected historical context. The research will focus on a specific Slovak author and his or her work. The assignment is based on the assumption that creators are not only authors of literary texts but also participants in public life and part of cultural and social memory. The material basis of the work will be literary works, cultural and literary periodicals, and autobiographical genres.<\/p>\n

Form of study: internal\/external
\nAdmission of one applicant<\/p>\n

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Doc. Mgr. Vladim\u00edr Barbor\u00edk, CSc.: <\/strong>Normalisation prose \u2013 Prose of the Normalisation Period<\/strong><\/p>\n

The dissertation aims to reflect on the effects of the social changes that took place in Czechoslovakia at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, i.e. to examine the impact of the external social conditions of the following two decades on the genre, poetological, thematic, and motivic, but above all on the ideological and value profile of Slovak prose of the normalization period. The field of research will be defined by prose works accessible in the contemporary public communicative space controlled by official structures.<\/p>\n

Form of study: internal\/external
\nAdmission of one applicant<\/p>\n

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Internal PhD students:<\/p>\n

Mgr. Barbora Zlej\u0161ia<\/strong> (since 2021)\r\nTopic: Lyrick\u00e1 pr\u00f3za \u0160tefana Kr\u010dm\u00e9ryho \/ Lyrical Prose by \u0160tefan Kr\u010dm\u00e9ry\r\nSupervisor: Mgr. Dana Hu\u010dkov\u00e1, CSc.\r\n\r\nMgr. Romana Kali\u0161ov\u00e1<\/strong>\u00a0(since 2022)\r\nTopic: Lyrick\u00fd subjekt v po\u00e9zii slovenskej moderny \/ The Lyrical Subject in the Poetry of Slovak Modernism\r\nSupervisor: Mgr. Dana Hu\u010dkov\u00e1, CSc.<\/pre>\n
\r\nMgr. \u0160imon \u010ci\u017em\u00e1r<\/strong> (since 2023)\r\nTopic: Ir\u00f3nia, par\u00f3dia, grotesknos\u0165: slovensk\u00e1 nekonven\u010dn\u00e1 po\u00e9zia po roku 1989 medzi provok\u00e1ciou a kritikou \/ \r\nIrony, Parody, the Grotesque: Slovak Unconventional Poetry After 1989 Between Provocaton and Criticism\r\nSupervisor: Mgr. Ivana Hostov\u00e1, PhD.\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
Mgr. Olha Norba<\/strong> (since 2023)\r\nTopic: Podoby \u0161edej z\u00f3ny na Slovensku v osemdesiatych rokoch 20. storo\u010dia: medzi ofici\u00e1lnou a neofici\u00e1lnou literat\u00farou \/ \r\nThe Forms of the Grey Zone in Slovakia in the 1980s: Between Official and Unofficial Literature\r\nSupervisor: Mgr. Radoslav Passia, Ph.D.\r\n\r\nMgr. Nina Papcunov\u00e1<\/strong> (since 2024)\r\nTopic: Pr\u00edroda v modernizme \/ Nature in modernism \r\nSupervisor: Mgr. Dana Hu\u010dkov\u00e1, CSc.\r\n\r\nMgr. Martin Pavlov<\/strong> (since 2024)\r\nTopic: Civiliza\u010dn\u00e9 a ekologick\u00e9 t\u00e9my v slovenskej po\u00e9zii sedemdesiatych a osemdesiatych rokov 20. storo\u010dia \/ Civilizational and Ecological Themes in Slovak Poetry of the 1970s and 1980s\r\nSupervisor: Mgr. Radoslav Passia, Ph.D.\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
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External PhD students:<\/p>\n
Mgr. \u013dudmila Hork\u00e1 <\/strong> (since 2018)\r\nTopic:\u00a0Stv<\/span>\u00e1rnenie em\u00f3ci\u00ed v kr\u00e1tkej pr\u00f3ze Mila Urbana \/ The Representation of Emotions in Milo Urban's Short Prose\r\nSupervisor: Mgr. Karol Csiba, PhD.\r\n\r\nMgr. Petra Nagyov\u00e1<\/strong> (since 2020)\r\nTopic: \u017dena v naturizme \/ Woman in Naturism\r\nSupervisor: PhDr. Jana Kuzm\u00edkov\u00e1, CSc.\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
Mgr. Martina P\u00e9terov\u00e1<\/strong> (since 2021)\r\nTopic: Marxistick\u00e9 liter\u00e1rnoteoretick\u00e9 koncepcie v slovenskej literat\u00fare tridsiatych rokov 20. storo\u010dia \/ \r\nMarxist Literary Theoretical Concepts in Slovak Literature of the 1930s\r\nSupervisor: Mgr. Michal Habaj, PhD.<\/pre>\n
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