Carpathian University on the international academic platform Erasmus+!

From November 2 to 7, 2026, Iryna Malyshivska, Associate Professor of the Department of English Philology, was at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia) on a teaching mobility grant (STA) within the framework of the Erasmus+ KA1 program.

The host was the Department of British and American Studies at Comenius University. The academic mobility coordinator was Dr. Marian Gazdík, whose study groups provided classes for students. Marián Gazdík is also known as a translator into Slovak of works of modern and classical English-language literature, including novels by Margaret Atwood, Aldous Huxley, and H.G. Wells.

The curriculum included a lecture and seminar classes totaling 8 academic hours. The lecture “The Count Who Never Dies: Literature, Cinema and the Art of Adaptation” was devoted to literary adaptations and the peculiarities of interpreting classical works in cinema. It was based on the materials of the author’s course “Literature and Cinema”, which Iryna Malyshivska teaches to students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​of the Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University. During the class, the students analyzed how the literary image changes in different film versions and how cinema rethinks the classical text.

Another topic was “(Re)reading Orwell Today,” dedicated to the work of George Orwell and its relevance in the modern social context. Special attention was paid to the reception of the writer in Ukraine.

The classes involved active work with students, analysis of literary and cinematic texts, and discussion of proposed problems.

Teaching mobility within the framework of Erasmus+ has become an opportunity to present the experience of Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University in the international academic environment. Of particular importance is the presentation of the Ukrainian context of reading world literature, in particular the works of George Orwell. Such academic exchanges contribute to the dissemination of Ukrainian scientific experience and the development of cooperation between universities.