Peter Petro
PETRO, Peter, Professor (on Sabbatical till Sepember 2008)
MA (Brit.Col. 1972), Ph.D. (Alberta 1978)
Office: Buchanan Tower 212
Tel.: 604-822-6431
E-mail: petro(at)interchange.ubc.ca
Courses:
* Slavic Studies 307
* Russian 206
* Russian 207
* Russian 306
Born in Slovakia, Peter Petro began his studies at the Comenius University in Bratislava with a double major: English and Spanish. He came to Vancouver and continued his studies at the University of British Columbia in Russian and Spanish (B.A., 1970) and in Russian literature (M.A., 1972). He then moved to the University of Alberta to study comparative literature, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1978.
In 1977 he was appointed to teach Russian language and literature in the Department of Slavonic Studies, U.B.C, and is currently coordinator of the Russian program (in the Department of Germanic Studies), and Chair of the Program in Modern European Studies. He has taught Russian language at all levels, undergraduate courses inRussian literature and in Slavic literatures in translation as well asgraduate seminars in Russian and comparative literature.
Dr.Petro's research has recently focused primarily on Slovak literature,but he has also published extensively on Russian, Czech, Polish andcomparative literature. In addition to over sixty articles andtranslations, his publications include four books: Modern Satire: Four Studies (1982), which deals with the works of modern Czech, English, Russian and American authors; History of Slovak Literature (1995); a translation of the prize-winning novel by Milan Simecka, The Year of the Frog (1993); and an edition of critical articles on Milan Kundera, Critical Essays on Milan Kundera (New York: G.K Hall Ltd., 1999). His translation of Alexej Fulmek's Dispatches from the Home Front appeared in 2000.
Dr. Petro is member of the editorial boards of Slovakia and Most, and of the advisory board of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal, accessible at http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/.
