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Another Visit to the “Gateway to Wisconsin”

In the May of 2018, PhDr. Zuzana Tabackova, PhD. from the Department of Language Pedagogy and Intercultural Studies, Faculty of Education, visited Beloit College, Wisconsin as the third staff member in a row. The visit was organized within the Erasmus+ exchange program agreement between Beloit College and Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. The former is the oldest continuously functioning liberal arts college in the state, which has been in existence longer than the state of Wisconsin itself.
During her stay, Zuzana Tabackova had an opportunity to carry out literary research in the area of immigrant literary pursuits. She participated in a workshop for future seminar leaders and in a series of meetings with professors and staff members whose research interests include immigrant narratives, postcolonial literature, contemporary American poetry, and creative writing. As a part of her staff training mobility, she also visited Hemingway’s birthplace in Oak Park, Shakespearean Theatre in Chicago, and the Art Institute of Chicago. We hope that the visit to Beloit, the Gateway to Wisconsin, will be a “gateway to future cooperation” between American literary scholars and Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra.

Author of the text: PhDr. Zuzana Tabačková, PhD., Department of Language Pedagogy and Intercultural Studies, Faculty of Education