Prof. PhDr. Peter Žeňuch, DrSc.

From 1995 to 1997, intern scientific aspirant in the Slavic Cabinet of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, from 1997 a staff member of the Slavic Cabinet of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (specialist, research worker, independent research worker, senior research worker) renamed in 2005 to the Ján Stanislav Slavic Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. From 2003 to 2006, deputy director, from 2006 to 2019, director of the Ján Stanislav Slavic Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, from 2019 to 2022, deputy director. From 2003 to 2005 and in 2010, work and study stay (Bonn).

From 2002 to 2011, worked at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno (from 2006 to 2011 as head of the Department of Paleoslavistics at the Institute of Slavistics), and from 2008, worked at the Faculty of Arts of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (UKF); from 2013 to 2018, was a regular professor at the Department of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Arts UKF in Nitra. Since 2018, he has been a regular professor and since 2023 the head of the Department of Slovak Language and Literature at the Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava.

Since 1997, a member of the Slovak Committee of Slavists, from 2001 to 2006 secretary, from 2006 chairman. He is a member of the International Committee of Slavists and the Presidium of the International Committee of Slavists; since 2013, he has been the coordinator of the committees at the International Committee of Slavists.

From 2007/2008 to 2012, he served as an external member of the Department of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. From 2006 to 2011, a regular member of the Institute of Slavistics at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno, head of the Department of Paleoslavistics and Old Church Slavonic, an internal member of the Doctoral Committee for doctoral studies in the field of Palaeoslovenistics and Slavic languages, and chairman of the Commission for the defense of rigorosum theses in the field of Slovak language and literature. 

Since 2000, a member of the Executive Board of the Association of Authors of Scientific and Professional Literature, since 2003 a member of the international hymnological society Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Hymnologie e. V. Since 2007, a member of the cultural and scientific society Gli amici del PIO, established at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. From 2002 to 2008, a member of the VEGA Committee for arts, aesthetics, and linguistics, re-elected member of the committee from 2016 to 2025.

He served as a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Arts of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Theology of the Trnava University, a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, a member of the Scientific Council of Trnava University, and a member of the Certification Board for periodic certifications of scientific workers at the Faculty of Arts UKF in Nitra. From 2001 to 2010, a member of the joint sector committee for doctoral studies in the scientific field 73-09-9 Slavistics – Slavic Languages. Since 2009, a member of the joint sector committee for doctoral studies in the scientific field 2.1.23 Theory of literature and history of specific national literatures and since 2010 a member of the sector committee for doctoral studies in the scientific field 2.1.27 Slovak language and literature at the Faculty of Arts UKF in Nitra.

Since 2010, chairman of the commission for the defense of doctoral theses (DrSc.) “ad hoc” for the Humanities – philological sciences in the scientific field 060207 – Slavic languages; from 2010 to 2015, he was also a member of the permanent commission for the defense of doctoral theses (DrSc.) in the field of literary science; theory and history of Slovak literature; Slavistics – Slavic literatures and theory and history of specific national literatures. From 2009 to 2021, a member of the Council for Science, Education, and Culture at the Conference of Bishops of Slovakia, a member of the Central Language Council, an advisory body to the Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic in the field of the state language, and since 2013, a member of the Art Committee of the Government Council of the Slovak Republic for Culture.

Member of editorial boards of scientific journals and scientific series Slavica Slovaca, Krakowsko-Wileńskie Studia Slawistyczne, Culturologica Slovaca, Проглас – филологическо списание, Славянский альманах, Вісник Львівського університету – серія мистецвознавство, Slovenský časopis historický.

• Latin and Byzantine culture preserved in Cyrillic documents on Slovak territory / Prof. PhDr. Peter Žeňuch, DrSc. In Suballyová, Ľubica (ed.): Top Scientific Teams and People at SAS. Bratislava: Presidency of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2014, pp. 254-258

• Slovak linguists: https://www.juls.savba.sk/ediela/slovenski_jazykovedci/2016-2020.pdf

• Dudášová-Kriššáková, J. 2021. Life anniversary of Prof. PhDr. Peter Žeňuch, DrSc.. In Slavica Slovaca, vol. 56, no.2, pp. 302-304

• WIKIPEDIA: https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_%C5%BDe%C5%ňuch