Peter Karpinský

(University of Prešov, Slovakia)

PhDr. Mgr. Peter Karpinský, Ph.D. (1971) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Slovak language at Faculty of Arts at Prešov University. His field of research is the history and evolution of language as well as the theory and history of comics. He wrote several research papers about the issue of picto-verbal stories, and in 2014 his monograph titled Poetika komiksu v texte a kontexte (The poetics of comics in the text and context) was published. Currently, he is working on a monograph analysing axiological and development issues of Slovak comics. Regarding the issue of comic books, he had delivered several speeches at literary and medial conferences and was working on grant projects.