PhDr. Jozef Bilský, PhD.

	Email:	jozef.bilsky@upjs.sk
	Homepage:	https://www.upjs.sk/FF/zamestnanec/jozef.bilsky
	Faculty:	FF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Arts
	Department:	KSSFaK - Department of Slovak Studies, Slavonic Philologies, and Communication
	Office:	A311
	Phone:	+421 55 234 7156
	ORCID ID:	https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6834-8950

He was born in Bardejov, where he graduated from the Leonard Stöckel Grammar School in 2009. After completing his secondary education, he enrolled at the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. In 2012, he completed his interdisciplinary bachelor’s studies in Geography – Slovak Language and Literature by defending his bachelor’s thesis Prosodic Phenomena in Eastern Slovak Dialects under the supervision of PhDr. Iveta Bónová, PhD. In 2014, he defended his diploma thesis The Current State of Dialect Use in Dlhá Lúka under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Marianna Sedláková, PhD., within the study programme 1.1.1 Teaching of Academic Subjects: Slovak Language and Literature – Geography. In the same year, he began his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov, specializing in Slovak Language and Literature (study programme Slovak Language) with a focus on dialectology and the history of language. He completed the programme in 2019 by defending his dissertation Case Syncretism in Eastern Slovak Dialects under the supervision of Prof. Júlia Dudášová, DrSc. In 2017, he defended his rigorous thesis The North Šariš Archaic Enclave Named Hažlín, written under the supervision of PhDr. Peter Karpinský, PhD., also at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov. In the 2017/2018 academic year, he worked as a lecturer of Slovak at the Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov. In the following academic year (2018/2019), he worked as a secondary school teacher at a grammar school in Košice. After completing his doctoral studies, he took up the position of lecturer in Slovak language and culture at Comenius University in Bratislava, where he remained employed until 2021. He continued in the same role at the University of Economics in Bratislava from 2021 to 2022. From 2023 to 2024, he worked as a research associate in the Ľudovít Štúr Linguistics Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Department of Dialectology, contributing as a co‑researcher on a grant project and as a collaborator on the Dictionary of Slovak Dialects IV. Since 2024, he has been employed as an assistant professor at the Department of Slovak Studies, Slavic Philologies and Communication of the Faculty of Arts at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, focusing on diachronic linguistics.

Higher education and further qualification growth

First degree of higher education:

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts, 2012, Slovak language and literature - geography

Second degree of higher education:

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts, 2014, Slovak language and literature - geography

Third degree of higher education:

University of Prešov, Faculty of Arts, 2019, Slovak language and literature (Slovak language)

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Profile courses
Practical Lexicology I - Slovak and Media Studies, bachelor level degree
Practical Lexicology II - Slovak and Media Studies, bachelor level degree
Contemporary Slovak Language - Lexicology - interdisciplinary study of the Slovak language and literature, bachelor level degree
Fundamentals of Slavic Studies and Old Church Slavonic - interdisciplinary study of the Slovak language and literature, bachelor level degree
Selected publications
ABC: BILSKÝ, Jozef: Exaktné a kartografické vyjadrenie miery pádového synkretizmu. In: Slovanské dialekty v době digitálních technologií. Nářeční prameny a jejich současné zpracování, Praha: Slovanský ústav Akademie věd ČR, v. v. i. 2025, s. 69 – 83. ISBN 978-80-86420-99-8.
ADF: BILSKÝ, Jozef: Z písaných prejavov východných Slovanov ku koncu kurzu v organizácii IOM. In: Philologia, 2025, roč. 35, č. 1, s. 145 – 159. Online: https://www.fedu.uniba.sk/fileadmin/pdf/Sucasti/Ustavy/Ustav_filologickych_studii/Philologia/Philologia_2025_1/PHILOLOGIA_1_2025.pdf
AFC: BILSKÝ, Jozef. Porovnávanie východoslovenských nárečí z hľadiska miery pádového synkretizmu. In: Slovakistika v súvislostiach: tradícia a perspektívy. In: Zborník príspevkov z medzinárodnej vedeckej konferencie konanej v dňoch 19. – 21. apríla 2023 na Filologickej fakulte v Belehrade pri príležitosti 70. výročia univerzitnej slovakistiky v Srbsku a 25. výročia Lektorátu slovenského jazyka a kultúry na Filologickej fakulte Univerzity v Belehrade. Eds. S. Paunovič Rodič - R. Raffaj. Belehrad: Filologická fakulta v Belehrade 2023, s. 27 – 40. ISBN 978-86-6153-731-8.Online: https://www.fil.bg.ac.rs/uploads/files/Strane/Biblioteke/Izdavacka%20delatnost/%D0%97%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8/Slovakistika%20v%20s%C3%BAvislostiach%20-%20zbornik_FINAL.pdf
AFD: BILSKÝ, Jozef: Centrálne a periférne javy hažlínskej deklinácie v Bardejovskom okrese. In: Centrum a periféria v jazykovej komunikácii. Zborník materiálov z 12. medzinárodnej vedeckej konferencie o komunikácii konanej 3. 9. – 5. 9. 2024 na Filozofickej fakulte Univerzity Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici. Banská Bystrica: Belianum – VydavateľstvoUniverzity Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici 2025, eds. P. Odaloš – G. Rožai, s. 20 – 28. ISBN 978-80-557-2262-7.
AFD: BILSKÝ, Jozef: Odraz východoslovenských izomorf v pádovom synkretizme substantív gemerských nárečí. In: Dynamické procesy v súčasnej jazykovednej slavistike. Zborník materiálov z vedeckého seminára konaného dňa 20. 6. 2025 na Filozofickej fakulte Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove venovaný významnému jubileu prof. PhDr. Júlie Dudášovej-Kriššákovej, DrSc. Prešov: Prešovská univerzita v Prešove 2025, eds. M. Vojteková – P. Karpinský, s. 49 – 60. ISBN 978-80-555-3595-1.
Selected projects
VEGA – Dynamic processes in contemporary linguistic Slavic studies IV. (Chapters from Slovak, Polish, Ruthenian and Ukrainian research) n. 1/0236/20 (2020 – 2022).
VEGA – Dynamic processes in contemporary linguistic Slavic studies V. (Chapters from Slovak, Polish, Ruthenian and Ukrainian research) n. 1/0225/23 (2023 – 2025).
VEGA - Dictionary of Slovak dialects IV. n. 2/0114/22 (2022 – 2025).
Organisational activities
member - Slovak Linguistic Society at JÚĽŠ SAV, v. v. i., 2020 - current
member - Disciplinary commission of the Department of Language and Vocational Training of Foreign Students of the Comenius University in Bratislava, 2019 - 2021
member - Language Competence Testing Commission of the Department of Language and Vocational Training of Foreign Students of the Comenius University in Bratislava, 2020 - 2021
vice-chairman - Language Competence Testing of the Department of Language and Vocational Training of Foreign Students of the Comenius University in Bratislava, 2021
member - Committee of the Slovak Language and Literature Olympiad at the Faculty of Arts, UPJŠ in Košice, 2025 - current

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Projects

Completed Projects VEGA – Dynamic Processes in Contemporary Slavic Linguistics II Chapters from research into Slovak, Rusyn, Polish and Ukrainian Project No. 1/0072/14 (2014–2016). VEGA – Dynamic Processes in Contemporary Slavic Linguistics III Chapters from research into Slovak, Polish, Rusyn and Ukrainian Project No. 1/0383/17 (2017–2019). VEGA – Dynamic Processes in Contemporary Slavic Linguistics IV Chapters from research into Slovak, Polish, Rusyn and Ukrainian Project No. 1/0236/20 (2020–2022). Ongoing Projects VEGA – Dynamic Processes in Contemporary Slavic Linguistics V Chapters from research into Slovak, Polish, Rusyn and Ukrainian Project No. 1/0225/23 (2023–2025). VEGA – Dictionary of Slovak Dialects IV Project No. 2/0114/22 (2022–2025).

Interesting links

Media Outputs BILSKÝ, Jozef: Ukraine 2018 – The Area of the Carpathians and Odesa. In: PechaKucha Night Bardejov #17, Bardejov, 2019. Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAQn4uJ9lpE BILSKÝ, Jozef: European Day of Languages at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. In: RTVS News, 9 September 2025, Bratislava, 2025. Online: https://www.stvr.sk/televizia/archiv/21274/553318#2834 (starting at 47:14) BILSKÝ, Jozef: Redundant Traffic Sign. In: Občan za dverami, 21 September 2025, Bratislava, 2025. Online: https://www.stvr.sk/televizia/archiv/14108/554771#1046 (starting at 16:35)

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