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job offer: language school and education agency teacher

Language school and education agency teacher - individual or group tutoring, various topics, salary to be agreed on, contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (for more see the attachement)
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job offer: English language teacher at an alternative school

Alternative school teaching - 3years old to 7 years old (max. 6), English for kids, Škola U potůčku, https://skolaupotucku.cz/kontakt/, salary to be agreed on, contact: Dr. Peldová (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) 
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job offer: individual tutoring

Individual tutoring - 5th grader, face-to-face, Hluboká u Liberce, math, Czech - entrance exams preparation, salary to be agreed, contact: Dr. Peldová (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)  
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Two Culture Talks by Judit Pieldner

The English Department is proud to invite you to

two public lectures

by

Judit Pieldner, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Human Sciences
Faculty of Economics, Socio-Human Sciences and Engineering
Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

 

Literature on Screen: An Introduction to Film Adaptations through Shakespeare's Hamlet

November 26, 2024, 8.50 am, P002

This presentation proposes to familiarize the audience with the relationship between literature and film. It will survey the major theories of screen adaptation. Various adaptation typologies will be exemplified through screen adaptations of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

 

Postcolonial Rewritings of the Classics

November 28, 2024, 6.00 pm, P005

This presentation provides an introduction to strategies of rewriting, why writers resort to this practice in contemporary literature, what changes are effected and how they reinterpret the original works. The theory of rewriting will be discussed especially in connection with postcolonialism, exploring how colonial patterns are shifted by their critical treatment and by giving voice to the Other.

 

Judit Pieldner is associate professor at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania. Her research interests are related to intermediality, remediation, experimental cinema and screen adaptation. She is executive editor of the journal Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica. Her latest volume entitled Adaptation, Remediation and Intermediality: Forms of In-Betweenness in Cinema was published by Cluj University Press (2020).

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Júlia Vallasek: A Culture Talk and a Roundtable

The English Department is proud to invite you to

two public lectures

by

Júlia Vallasek, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Journalism and Digital Media
Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences
Babeş-Bolyai University

 

"They Are Warriors Too": Media Representation of Disabled and Injured Soldiers in World War I

November 26, 2024, 12.30 pm, P103

This lecture is based on dr. Vallasek's research of the contemporary newspaper coverage of the First World War, discussing the representation of disabled and injured soldiers in the daily press.

 

The Art and Craft of Literary Translation: An Informal Discussion (with dr. Maxmilian Rhys)

November 28, 2024, 12.30 pm, H35

An informal, informative discussion on the beauties, challenges and intricacies of being a literary translator

 

Júlia Vallasek is translator, literary historian, and associate professor at the Department of Journalism and Digital Media of Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. She has translated the works of such figures as Jane Austen, Mircea Eliade or Julian Barnes. Her research interests include 20th-century Transylvanian literature, the history of 20th-century journalism in Transylvania, as well as contemporary English literature and Jane Austen.

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News from teachers

  • Anna Světlíková: office hours canceled Oct 1

    Světlíková
    I am sorry, I need to cancel my office hours but can be reached via e-mail. 

  • job offer

    Koutská
    Základní škola, Vybíralova 964/8 Praha 9 - Černý Most přijme UČITELE AJ (1. a 2. stupeň)Nástup: 25. 8. 2025Možnost plného i částečného úvazkuBližší informace Vám rádi poskytnemeprostřednictvím:e- mailu: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.: 724 957 016

  • May 25 - Office Hours Cancelled (dr. Vernyik)

    Vernyik

    Dear Students,

    I am not going to be in my office on Thursday, May 25, thus my regular office hours must be cancelled. You can see me on Monday, or drop me a line if it is urgent.

    All the best,
    Zénó Vernyik

  • Anna Světlíková's office hours canceled on May 10 and 17

    Světlíková
    Dear students, my office hours are canceled on May 10 and May 17 but I can be reached via e-mail. I apologize for the inconvenience. 

  • Office Hours Cancelled on March 23 (dr. Vernyik)

    Vernyik

    Dear Students,

    I am away at a conference on March 23 and March 24, and thus my usual Thursday office hours are cancelled. If your matter is urgent, contact me in e-mail, otherwise, I am happy to see you next week.

    All the best,
    Zénó Vernyik

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