Peter Petro, University of British Columbia
Associate Professor
Central, Eastern, Northern European Studies
Vancouver, British Columbia
petro@interchange.ubc.ca
Office:
(604) 822-6431
Bio/Research
Prof. Petro (Ph.D., Alberta) 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 in Russian literature and in Slavic literatures in transla...
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Bio/Research
Prof. Petro (Ph.D., Alberta) 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 in Russian literature and in Slavic literatures in translation as well as graduate 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 and comparative literature. In addition to over sixty articles and translations, 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.
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