PhDr. Vladimir Littva, PhD.
Nanovic Institute Scholar
225 Brownson Hall
574.631.1851

Rev. Vladimir Littva received his PhD in Philosophy from the Catholic University in Lublin, Poland and is head of the Department of Bioethics and Pastoral Medicine at the Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia.  He is currently working on a collection of critical essays in Bioethics and Healthcare ethics as well as a book that will be used in teaching Nursing and Midwifery students at the University.

Fall 2007

Krystyna Mazur
Warsaw Exchange

Krystyna Mazur teaches at the American Studies Center at Warsaw University, Poland. She holds a PhD in English from Cornell University. Her interests are poetry and poetics, gender and queer studies. Her book Poetry and Repetition: Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery was published by Routlege in 2005. She is currently working on a project involving American expatriate women writers. At Notre Dame she taught a course on American poetry after 1945.

Rev. Hendryk Drawnel, SDB
Nanovic Scholar

Rev. Drawnel holds an SSL and an SSD from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, and has studied modern Hebrew at the Jerusalem Ulpan Beth Ha-Amin in Israel, bible studies at the École Biblique et Archéologique Français in Jerusalem, Semitic languages and pseudepigraphic literature at Harvard Divinity School, and teaches in the Institute of Biblical Studies, Department of Theology, University of Lublin, Poland.

Julia Lopez
Curriculum Vitae

Julia Lopez is a professor of labor and social security law in the Pompeu Fabra University Law School in Barcelona, Spain since 1996. She holds a doctorate in law from the Complutense University. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in labor law and in international and European Union social Law. She has been affiliated with the University of Rome, the University of Paris-Nanterre II, the Institute of European Studies of the Free University of Brussels, the University of Naples, and the University of Notre Dame. Her publications include several books and numerous articles on themes including European Union social law, political decentralization and labor policies, family and work, and discrimination. Currently, she is working on European integration, globalization, and social rights; wage and salary flexibility and worker rights; legislation on work and family.

Dalibor Mikulás
Nanovic Scholar
July/August

Dalibor Mikulás is completing a PhD in the Department of English and American Studies, Presov University. His dissertation title is "The Interplay of Linguistic and Extralingustic Factors with Special Emphasis on Borrowings in American English of the 20th Century." He is also the vice-rector for Foriegn Relations and Mobilities, Catholic University of Ruzomberok, Slovakia.

Taras Dobko
Nanovic Scholar
July 2007

Professor Dobko has a PhD and MA from the International Academy of Philosophy, Lichtenstein. He has taught courses in epistemology, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of love since 1998 at the Ukranian Catholic University in Lviv, where he is also the vice-rector for Acadmic Affairs.

Márton Beke
Nanovic Scholar
July 2007

Márton Beke is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Slavic and Central European Studies (Czech Department), Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Hungary and a PhD candidate in aesthetics at Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. The topic of his dissertation is "Structuralism and avant-garde in J. Mukarovský's work."

Kinga Földváry, PhD
Nanovic Scholar
June 2007

Kinga Földváry received her PhD in Renaissance and Baroque English Literature at Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest, and she has been teaching at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Hungary, since 2003. Her research interests include early modern literature and film adaptations of Shakespearean play.