Peter F. 'Rius Jílek, MA - full civil name Peter František Liberius Jílek - was born in Poprad, former Czechoslovakia, in present day Slovakia, Central Europe in 1983. He has lived in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, near Vienna since 2003.
After his compulsory education at elementary school, he continued studying at grammar school where he toke at the end of his secondary education in 2002. He was at students exchange program in Strasbourg in 2001. He graduated in linguistics and literary studies as Slovak studies at the Comenius Univesity in Bratislava Faculty of Arts in 2008. He is an internal PhD candidate at the Comenius University Faculty of Arts Department of Slovak Literature and Literary Studies. He is teaching interpretation, Slovak literature of the first half of the twentieth century and theory of literature. He is specialized on nationalism in literature, Slovak literature of the first half of the twentieth century, theory of myth and prose. The theme of his doctoral thesis is a mythopoetics in J. C. Hronský's fiction.
Since 2008, he is a teacher in the Studia Academica Slovaca - the Centre for Slovak as a Foreign Language (SAS), specialized department of the Faculty of Arts at Comenius
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F. 'Rius Jílek, Lucia Anna Trubačová with Slovak studies
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University in Bratislava. He has teached conversation and Slovak literature for student from the Beijing Foreign Studies University, courses of Slovak as a foreign language for ERASMUS students. He is also a teacher at the Summer School of Slovak Language and Culture Studia Academica Slovaca. Since 2008, he is also a lecturer of the Slovak language for foreign students from Greece at the Department of Languages of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Comenius University in Bratislava. Since 2009, he is an editor of the Slovak section of the literary portal iLiteratura.
Since 2005, he has written literary reviews. He is an author of many book reviews, also special and scientific articles. He has published in Hospodárske noviny, Let, RAK, Romano nevo ľil, Romboid, Slovak Literary Review, Slovo, Vlna and another serial publications. He also cooperated with the important jazz musician Milo Suchomel and his formation Milo Suchomel Quartet (Tomáš Baroš/Štefan Bartuš, Klaudius Kováč, Milo Suchomel, Marián Ševčík); he is an authorom of a biography, music review and poetry on the booklet of the CD I Always Tell You... (2009).
In 2004-2008, he was a president of the association Vestigium vitae. In 2005-2008, he was a second vice-chairman of the Students' Chamber of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava.
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