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Anna T. Litovkina | |
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| Born | 29 July 1963 Russia |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
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| Occupation(s) | Linguist, Folklorist, Author, Researcher, Psychologist, Coach |
| Known for | Expert on proverbs and humor |
Anna T. Litovkina (born July 29, 1963) is a Russian-born Hungarian linguist, a psychologist and a coach[ definition needed ].
Originally from Russia, Litovkina lives in Hungary and is currently Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia. Previously she has been employed by University of Pécs (Szekszárd, Hungary), János Kodolányi University College (Székesfehérvár, Hungary), University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow (Rzeszow, Poland), Tischner European University (Cracow, Poland), and a number of other European universities and colleges.
Litovkina holds a PhD in ethnography from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She is also a habilitated doctor in linguistics, a psychologist and a coach[ clarification needed ]. She has taught a great variety of courses on linguistics, folklore, cultural studies, theory of communication at various Hungarian, Slovak, Polish and Kazakh universities. She has also had series of workshops on goal-setting, procrastination, habits, motivation and time-management.[ citation needed ]
Litovkina has done research at the University of California, Berkeley (with Fulbright Scholarship), and at Oxford University Press. She has lectured at E.A. Buketov Karaganda State University (Kazakhstan); University of Florence (Italy); University of Vic (Spain); Partium Christian University (Romania); Artesis University College Antwerpen (Belgium); Oriel College, Oxford University (UK); University of Edinburgh (UK); University of Sheffield (UK); University of Houston (USA); University of Vermont (USA); Purdue University (USA) and many other universities abroad.
She has been the organizer and the chair of program committee of five Hungarian national interdisciplinary humor conferences and of two international symposia on humor. Beyond more than one hundred scholarly articles, she is the author or co-author of fifteen books. She is the co-editor of eleven volumes. She is well known for her work on anti-proverbs.
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