(ANTI-)STEREOTYPICAL MALE IMAGES OF RUSSIAN PROFESSORS AND SLOVAK STUDENTS IN SLOVAK UNIVERSITY PROSE

The article focuses on the image of the Russian professors in the academic novel “The Eccentric University” by Stanislav Rakus. The author analyzes images of a female professor of Russian nineteenth-century literature, Maria Petrovna Golovčikova and fellow professor Alexandr Kirillovič Župrej as portrayed by the narrator Victor Bochňa. The article concludes that through the depiction of the Russian professors in Slovak (Eccentric) university of the 1950s, Stanislav Rakus addresses not only Slovak Russophilic stereotypes historically em-bedded in nineteenth-century literary images of Russians, but also literary, gender and immigrant stereotypes that circulate in contemporary Slovak culture.