JOHANNA DOMOKOS, Ph.D.

Adj. Assist. Professor

Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
314 Humanities Building
Box 951502
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1502

Director of Baltic Studies Summer Institute, UCLA 2007-2008

Phone: (310) 825-8123
Fax: (310) 206-5263
E-mail: jdomokos@humnet.ucla.edu

Johanna Domokos holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Scandinavian Section. With an MA in Hungarian Studies (University of Cluj), Finno-Ugric Studies (University of Szeged), and Semiotics (Technical University Berlin), and a PhD in comparative literature (University of Szeged) her work mainly focuses on Hungarian, Sami and Finnish literatures and their comparative study.

She teaches in the areas of Hungarian language and culture and Sami language and culture. She has published extensively on translation theory and practice, and intersections of linguistics, poetics and semiotics. Dr. Domokos is the author of the book entitled A számi költészet fordíthatóságáról (About the translatability of the Sami poetry, Finnugor Füzetek 15, 2000), of five poetry volumes (the latest one, Re(a)d Forest published trilingually in 2004), and three books of literary translations (from Finish and Sami into Hungarian). She edited special issues about Hungarian, Finnish and German cultures for Hungarian and Finnish journals (e.g. Synteesi, Lettré International, Látó).

She is working on several new projects, including editing a special issue of PLURALICA entitled Multicultural Finland (2008). Her book entitled Home in the Heart, North Sami literary, cultural and historical conjunctions is forthcoming in Studia Uralo-Altaica in 2008. Her poetry volume, Kísérlet valahol (Experiment somewhere) will come out for the Budapest Book Fair in June 2008. The Hungarian translations of poems of the Sami author, Inger-Mari Aikio-Arianaick will be published in 2008 (Számi ima. Wien).

She has taught at various European Universities before starting to teach at UCLA in 2004. She is also active in organizing cultural events, for which she has been honored in 2008 by the Hungarian General Consulate, Los Angeles. 

Currently she is the director of Baltic Studies Summer Institute hosted by the Center of World Languages, UCLA in 2007-2008.

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