Renáta Kamenárová is the Director of Slovak Studies Program, the only university program in North America where students can take Slovak language and culture classes and opt to receive a Minor in Slovak Studies. She also teaches Slovak language at the Summer Language Institute at the University of Pittsburgh.
Education & Training
- PhD in Slovak Language, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2006
- MA (combined) in Slovak Language and Literature – History, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2002
- Visiting Researcher, Institute of Slavic Languages and Literature, School of Languages, Literature, and Cultures, University of Regensburg, Germany, Fall term AY 2004-2005
- Visiting Researcher, Institute of Sorbian Studies, School of Philology, University of Leipzig, Germany, AY 2003-2004
- Visiting Scholar, Institute of Polish Philology, School of Humanities, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland, Fall term AY 2000-2001
Courses Taught
- Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced, and 4th year Slovak
- Introduction to Linguistics
- Slovak Morphology
- Dialectology and Slovak Language History
- Historical Grammar of the Slovak Language
- Proto-Slavic and Old Church Slavonic
- Introduction to Slavic Philology
- Czech language for Slovak students
Representative Publications
Textbooks
- (Teacher’s guide, Lead author) Krížom-krážom: Metodická príručka: Slovenčina A1 + učebnica A1. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2018.
- (Textbook, Lead author, Second edition) Krížom-krážom. Slovenčina A1. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2018.
- (Textbook, Lead author, Second edition) Krížom-krážom. Slovenčina A2. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2012.
- (Textbook, Lead author) Krížom-krážom. Slovenčina B1. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2011.
- (Textbook, Author) Krížom-krážom. Slovenčina B2. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2014.
- (Exercise book, Author) Krížom-krážom. Slovenčina A1+A2. Cvičebnica. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2009.
Conference Presentations and Publications
- Problematica dei realia nella didattica della lingua slovacca. In: Castillo Peña, Carmen; San Vicente, Félix (a cura di), La oralidad. Recepción y transmisión, monografico di Orillas. Rivista d'Ispanistica, 5, 2016 http://orillas.cab.unipd.it/orillas/es/05_04kamenarova_astilleros/
- Innovative and Creative Solutions in Educational Programmes of Studia Academica Slovaca. In: The Future of Education. 4th ed. The conference proceedings. Florence: Pixel, 2014 http://conference.pixel-online.net/FOE/files/foe/ed0004/FP/0741-ITL489-FP-FOE4.pdf
- Substantívne vzory a deklinačný systém v slovenčine z lingvodidaktického hľadiska. In: Studia Academica Slovaca. 44. Prednášky 51. letnej školy slovenského jazyka a kultúry. Ed. J. Pekarovičová – M. Vojtech. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského 2015, s. 197-217. http://zborniky.e-slovak.sk/SAS_44_2015.pdf
- Gramatické kategórie maskulín a ich vplyv na vývin západoslovanských jazykov. In: Prirodzený vývin jazyka a jazykové kontakty. Jazykovedné štúdie. 32. Ed. K. Balleková – Ľ. Králik – G. Múcsková. Bratislava: Veda 2015, s. 195-202.
Research Interests
- Slovak studies — Linguistics (Etymology, Historical grammar and Morphology), History, Literature, Culture
- West Slavic Languages and Cultures (Slovak, Czech, Polish, Upper and Lower Sorbian)
- Second Language Acquisition – Methodology and Communicative Language Teaching
- Bilingualism and Minority-Language Children, Development of instructional materials and workshops for Heritage-Language teacher
Research Grants
- Recipient of Hanns-Seidel Foundation Scholarship:
- Visiting Researcher, Institute of Slavic Languages and Literature, School of Languages, Literature, and Cultures, University of Regensburg, Germany, Fall term AY 2004-2005
- Recipient of Foundation for the Sorbian People Scholarships:
- Visiting Researcher, Institute of Sorbian Studies, School of Philology, University of Leipzig, Germany, AY 2003-2004;
- Summer School of Upper Sorbian (Aug 2002) and Summer School of Lower Sorbian (Aug 2004), Sorbian Institute, Bautzen, Germany
- Recipient of Slovak Academic Information Agency (SAIA) Scholarships:
- Visiting Scholar, Institute of Polish Philology, School of Humanities, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland, Fall term AY 2000-2001
- Summer School of Slovene language (July 2007), Centre for Slovene as a Second and Foreign Language, School of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Summer School of Russian Language (July-Aug 2005), Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Moscow, Russia