Katalin Misad
Comenius University

Katalin Misad has worked at the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at the Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, since 1992, where she teaches descriptive linguistics and contrastive linguistics. She wrote her PhD dissertation on contrastive linguistics of Hungarian and Slovak, and did her habilitation in general linguistics. Her main area of specialization and research is the contrastive linguistics of Hungarian and Slovak and language planning, but she also works on issues of language policy and education. She published a collection of papers, Nyelvi kontaktusok (“Linguistic contacts”) in 2009, for which she was awarded the Posonium Prize in 2010. Her writing is regularly published in professional journals in Hungary and Slovakia, and she regularly presents findings of her research at conferences in Slovakia and abroad. She was recipient of the Domus Hungarica Grant in 2006, 2008, and 2011.