Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
doc. Mgr. Jana Grusková, PhD.
Document type:
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:
Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:
Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Grusková
I.2 - Name
Jana
I.3 - Degrees
doc. Mgr. PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1970
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Department of Classical and Semitic Philology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Gondova 2, 811 02 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
Professor (position)
I.8 - E-mail address
jana.gruskova@uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/3942
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Philology

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava
II.b - Year
1. 1994 / 2. 1993
II.c - Study field and programme
1st field (5 years, master thesis): Latin Language and Literature / 2nd field (4 years): Information and Library Science
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava
II.b - Year
2004
II.c - Study field and programme
Classical Languages: specialization Greek Language and Literature (5 years, master thesis)
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava
II.b - Year
2003
II.c - Study field and programme
Classical Languages
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava
II.b - Year
2010
II.c - Study field and programme
Classical Languages
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
internal PhD student / candidate Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava, Institute of Classical and Semitic Philology 1993-1996
assistant Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava, Institute of Classical and Semitic Philology 1996-2003
assistant professor Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava, Institute of Classical and Semitic Philology 2003-2010
associate professor Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava, Institute of Classical and Semitic Philology 2010-2022
professor (functional position) Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava, Institute of Classical and Semitic Philology since 2022
researcher Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2005 (part-time)

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other IV.b - Name of the institution IV.c - Year
Summer Intensive Course in Modern Greek Language Democritus University, Komotini, Greece 1992
Course in Modern Greek Language Aristotle University Thessaloniki 1993
6-month scholarship, TEMPUS Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Department of Classics 1993
4-month postgraduate scholarship Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Department of Classics 1995
State exam in Modern Greek Language State Language School in Prague 1994
Nachwuchsforum des Graduiertenkollegs Textüberlieferung Universität Hamburg, Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie 1999

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
History of Greek Literature Classical Languages / Greek Language and Culture (in combination) I. Philology
Greek Syntax 2 Classical Languages / Greek Language and Culture (in combination) I. Philology
Greek Language 3 Greek Language and Culture (in combination) I. Philology
(1) Philological Analysis of Greek Texts: Orators Greek Language and Culture (in combination) II. Philology
Selected Chapters from the History of World Literature Literary Science III: Philology
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.2.a - Name of the study programme V.2.b - Degree V.2.c - Field of study
Classical Languages I. Philology
Greek Language and Culture (in combination) I. Philology
Greek Language and Culture (in combination) II. Philology
Literary Science III. Philology
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
1
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
11
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
8
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
4
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
(1) Greek Language 1 / (2) Greek Language 1 (1) Classical Languages / Greek Language and Culture (in combination), (2) Latin Language and Culture (in combination) I. Philology
(1) Greek Language 2 / (2) Greek Language 2 (1) Classical Languages / Greek Language and Culture (in combination), (2) Latin Language and Culture (in combination) I. Philology
Greek Language 3 Classical Languages I. Philology
History of Greek Literature Latin Language and Culture (in combination) I. Philology
Methodology of Writing Scientific Texts (1) Classical Languages / Greek Language and Culture (in combination), (2) Latin Language and Culture (in combination) I. Philology
Modern Greek 2 Classical Languages / Greek Language and Culture (in combination) I. Philology
Modern Greek 4 Greek Language and Culture (in combination) I. Philology
Transmission of Greek Literature Greek Language and Culture (in combination) II. Philology
Ancient Greek Literature For all students of the Faculty I. Philology

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
77
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
24
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
5
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
1
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
363
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
221
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
30
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
18
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
30
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
11
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

AAA Grusková, Jana : Untersuchungen zu den griechischen Palimpsesten der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek : Codices historici, Codices philosophici et philologici, Codices iuridici. - Wien : Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010. - 169s. (+ príl. 94 s.). ISBN 978-3-7001-6802-7

2

ABA Grusková, Jana - Kresten, Otto : Palimpsestfragmente der Homiliae I et III in nativitatem B.M.V des Andreas von Kreta im Cod. Vind theol. gr. 160. In: Anzeiger der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 143 Jahrgang, 1. Halbband. - Wien : Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008, s. 5-70. - ISBN 978-3-7001-6622-1

3

AFC Grusková, Jana: Paläographisch-kodikologische Betrachtungen zu den vetustissimi des Demosthenes unter philologischen Gesichtspunkten. In: Demosthenica libris manu scriptis tradita. Studien zur Textüberlieferung des Corpus Demosthenicum. Internationales Symposium in Wien, 22.-24. September 2011. Edd. Grusková, Jana – Bannert, Herbert (Wiener Studien, 36). Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014, s. 263-312. - ISBN 978-3-7001-7553-7

4

ADC Martin, Gunther - Grusková, Jana: "Scythica Vindobonensia" by Dexippus(?). New fragments on Decius´ Gothic Wars. In: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. Roč. 54, č. 4 (2014), s. 728-754. SJR - SCOPUS: 2013-0,232, SNIP - SCOPUS: 2013-0,552, IPP - SCOPUS: 2013-0,0751

5

AEC Grusková, Jana - Martin, Gunther: Zum Angriff der Goten unter Kniva auf eine thrakische Stadt (Scythica Vindobonensia, f. 195). In: Tyche (Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik) Bd. 30 (2015), s. 35-56.

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

AFC Grusková, Jana - Martin, Gunther - Németh, András: Neue Entzifferungsfortschritte in den Vatikanischen Dexipp-Fragmenten (Vat. gr. 73). In: Empire in crisis : Gothic invasions and Roman historiography. Beiträge einer internationalen Tagung zu den Wiener Dexipp-Fragmenten (Dexippus Vindobonensis), Wien, 3.–6. Mai 2017. Edd. Mitthof, Fritz - Martin, Gunther - Grusková, Jana (TYCHE Supplementband 12). Viedeň : Holzhausen, 2020, s. 571-581. ISBN 978-3-903207-38-7.

2

V3 Martin, Gunther – Grusková, Jana: Facing the Plague and the Goths: a new passage from the Scythica Vindobonensia (Codex Vindobonensis hist. gr. 73, fol. 192r, lines 13-30). In: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. Roč. 62, č. 4 (2022), s. 437-493 [tlačená forma] [online]. Durham (USA): Duke University. ISSN 0017-3916. ISSN (online) 2159-3159.

3

AEC Grusková, Jana - Martin, Gunther: "Scythica Vindobonensia" : Geschichte und Ausblick : mit einer Vorbemerkung von Otto Kresten. In: Anzeiger : Geistes-, sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher : Roč. 153, č. 1+2. Viedeň : Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2019, s. 69-91. ISBN 978-3-7001-8442-3

4

V2 Grusková, Jana – De Gregorio, Giuseppe: Neue paläographische Einblicke in einige palimpsestierte Handschriften aus den griechischen Beständen der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. In: Rapp. C. – Rossetto, G. – Grusková, J. – Kessel, G., New light on old manuscripts: The Sinai palimpsests and other advances in palimpsests studies (Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung ; 45). - Viedeň: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2023. S. 317-341. - 1. vyd. ISBN 978-3-7001-9157-5.

5

AFC Grusková, Jana - Gunther, Martin - Kresten, Otto - Mitthof, Fritz - Kaska, Katharina - Hofmann, Christa - Kreuzer, Wolfgang - Phelps, Michael - Boydstone, Kenneth - Easton, Roger L. Jr. - Knox, Keith T. - Kelbe, David - Kasotakis, Damianos - Christens-Barry, William A. - Stewart, Dale - Rabin, Ira - Hahn, Oliver - Glaser, Leif - Garrevoet, Jan - Shevchuk, Ivan - Klumpp, Stephan - Deckers, Daniel - Buck, Jens: Insights into the digital recovery of the Scythica Vindobonensia. In: Le livre manuscript grec : écritures, matériaux, histoire (Actes du IXe Colloque international de Paléographie grecque. Paris, 10.09.2018 - 15.09.2018). Edd. Cronier, Marie - Mondrain, Brigitte (Travaux et mémoires 24/1). Paríž : Centre de recherche d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance, 2020, s. 945-967. ISBN 978-2-916716-81-7.

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1

[o1] 2013 König, J. - Woolf, G.: Encyclopaedism from antiquity to the renaissance preface. Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2013, s. 539. Ohlas na ADC Featherstone, Michael - Grusková, Jana - Kresten, Otto : Studien zu den Palimpsestfragmenten des Sogenannten "Zeremonienbuches" I. Prolegomena. In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift. Roč. 98, č. 2 (2005), s. 423-434.

2

[o1] 2014 Stefec, R.S.: Gymnasium, roč. 121, č. 4, 2014, s. 393-394. Ohlas na AAA Grusková, Jana: Untersuchungen zu den griechischen Palimpsesten der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Codices historici, Codices philosophici et philologici, Codices iuridici. Wien : Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010. - 169 s. (+ príl. 94 s.). ISBN 978-3-7001-6802-7

3

[o1] 2015 Mallan, Ch. - Davenport, C.: Journal of Roman studies, č. 105, 2015, s. 225. Ohlas na AEC Martin, Gunther - Grusková, Jana: "Dexippus Vindobonensis" (?) : Ein neues Handschriftenfragment zum sog. Herulereinfall der Jahre 267/268. In: Wiener Studien, Bd. 127 (2014), s. 101-120. - ISBN 978-3-7001-7659-6

4

[o1] 2017 Potter, D.: Writing Constantine. In: Constantine : religious faith and imperial policy. Abingdon : Routledge, 2017, s. 112. Ohlas na ADC Martin, Gunther - Grusková, Jana: "Scythica Vindobonensia" by Dexippus(?). New fragments on Decius´ Gothic Wars. In: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. Roč. 54, č. 4 (2014), s. 728-754. SJR - SCOPUS: 2013-0,232, SNIP - SCOPUS: 2013-0,552, IPP - SCOPUS: 2013-0,0751


5

[o1] 2018 Pohl, W.: Narratives of origin and migration in Early Medieval Europe : problems of interpretation. In: Medieval history journal, roč. 21, č. 2, 2018, s. 220. Ohlas na AEC Grusková, Jana - Martin, Gunther: Ein neues Textstück aus den „Scythica Vindobonensia“ zu den Ereignissen nach der Eroberung von Philippopolis. In: Tyche, Bd. 29 (2014), s. 29-43. ISBN 978-3-902976-42-0

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

Project VEGA 1/0888/21 "Analysis of processes of selection and establishing a system of knowledge in the Greek philology during its flourishing period in the Rome of Marcus Aurelius" (2021–2023), project leader.

2

Project I-20170505 EC "Fast scanning X-ray Fluorescence mapping of the Dexippus Palimpsest" (2017–2019), Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Hamburg and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Project leader: Jana Grusková; Principal investigator: Dr. Leif Glaser, an expert in archaeometry physics (the expences were covered by the Project FWF P28112-G25 Scythica Vindobonensia, German Fundings for Science and the Holzhausenlegat of the Austrian Academy of Sciences).

3

Project P 28112-G25 "Scythica Vindobonensia" (2015–2020) of the Austrian Science Fund FWF conducted at the Universität Wien and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Jana Grusková was the principal investigator together with Prof. Dr. Gunther Martin (Universität Zürich); project leader: Prof. Dr. Fritz Mitthof (UW) and Prof. Dr. Otto Kresten (ÖAW).

4

Project P 31939-G25 "The Vienna Herodian Palimpsest" (2019–2024) of the Austrian Science Fund FWF conducted at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Jana Grusková is the principal investigator together with Prof. Dr. Klaus Alpers (Universität Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Nigel Wilson (University of Oxford, Lincoln College), Prof. Dr. Herbert Bannert (Universität Wien) and Prof. Dr. Oliver Primavesi (LMUniversität München). Project leader: 2019-June 2024 Prof. Dr. Otto Kresten (ÖAW); since July 2024 J. Grusková.

5

Project VEGA 1/0210/22 "One hundred years of classical studies at the Comenius University in Bratislava" (2022-2025), project collaborator, deputy project leader (project leader: Doc. Mgr. Ľudmila Eliášová Buzássyová, PhD.).

6

2024 - Project leader of I-20230849 EC Fast scanning X-ray Fluorescence mapping of the Herodian Palimpsest, DESY, FWF, ÖAW, ÖNB, EMEL, CSMC.

7

2024–2027 - Project FWF PAT9022724 The Vienna Basilica Palimpsests of the Austrian Science Fund FWF conducted at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Jana Grusková is the project leader and together with Prof. Dr. Bernard Stolte (University Groningen) also the principal investigator.

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
Guarantor of the study program "Classical Languages", Bc level Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava since 2011
Guarantor of the study program "Greek Language and Culture", Bc and Master leveI Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava since 2018
(1) Establishing the studies of Greek philology at the Faculty of Arts, (2) Introducing classes of Modern Greek Language and Culture, (3) Establishing a lecturership of Modern Greek Language at the Faculty of Arts in cooperation with the Hellenic Republic Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava (1) since 1999, (2) since 2001, (3) since 2008
Co-guarantor of the study program "Classical Languages", Master leveI Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava 2011-2017
Guarantor of the supplementary pedagogical studies "Greek Language" Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava since 2020

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution VIII.b - Address of the institution VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Department of Classics Thessaloniki, Greece 01 February - 31 July 1993 Program TEMPUS, scholarship
Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Department of Classics Thessaloniki, Greece 01 March -30 June 1995 postgraduate scholarship
Universität Hamburg, Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie Hamburg, Germany 01 - 31 October 1999 Nachwuchsforum des Graduiertenkollegs Textüberlieferung
Universität Hamburg, Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie Hamburg, Germany 01 -30 June 2001 DAAD
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Abt. Byzanzforschung, IMAFO Vienna, Austria 2003-2004, 2005-2011, 2012-2018, 2019-2027 researcher: examination and editing of important Ancient Greek and Byzantine texts transmitted in Greek manuscripts (e.g. from the collection of Johannes Sambucus)

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

Awards


2007 Award of the rector of the Comenius University in Bratislava "for meritorious scientific research activity at the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University as well as for an extraordinary contribution in international scientific cooperation" on the occasion of the International Student Day.

 

2014 Award of the rector of the Comenius University in Bratislava "for significant scientific contribution in the field of classical philology in a wider international scientific context" on the occasion of the International Student Day.

 

2018 Honorary diploma awarded by the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in the Slovak Republic "for significant merits in the development and strengthening of friendly relations between Cyprus and Slovakia and for the contribution to the spread of Greek culture in Slovakia".

  

2023 Award "Grand Commander of the Order of the Phoenix" awarded for the contribution to the promotion of the Greek language and Greek culture by the President of the Hellenic Republic.



Other activities

1995– Member of the scientific society Slovak Union of Classical Philologists at SAV

2023– President (1999–2023 Secretary) of the Slovak Society of Modern Greek Studies

2000–2006 Court interpreter and translator from/to Modern Greek

2003–2017 Organizing courses of Modern Greek for the public at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University

2006–2012 Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Graecolatina et Orientalia, Faculty of Philosophy, Comenius University

2007– Coordinator of the Erasmus / Erasmus+ KKSF Classical Languages, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University

2008– Webmaster of the Department of Classical and Semitic Philology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University

2011– Member of the Slovak Byzantological Society

2012– Co-editor of the journal Graecolatina et Orientalia, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava

2017– Member of the Examination Committee for Modern Greek of the Interpreting Institute of the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University

2017 Member of the scientific board of the journal Wiener Humanistische Blätter, Uni. Wien, Inst. für Klass. Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein

2023– President of the Slovak Society of Modern Greek Studies

Date of last update
2025-02-28