Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous

Before her work in Europe, Kathleen Dubs taught and held administrative positions at a number of American universities and liberal arts colleges. She is currently on the faculty of Arts and Letters at Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia, and the Institute of English Studies at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary. Her most recent publications include “Benjamin Franklin: The Face of American Satire,” “Devising Meaning in Genesis B,” “Fate, Providence, and Chance: Boethian Philosophy in The Lord of the Rings,” the entry “Fortune and Fate” in The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, and “Sleeping in Beowulf.”Janka Kaščáková received her PhD from Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, and teaches English Literature in the Department of English Language and Literature at Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia. The main focus of her research is modernism and the modernist short story, with a specialization in Katherine Mansfield. She also conducts research in fantasy literature, especially the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Her publications include “Katherine Mansfieldová: The Reception of Katherine Mansfield in the Countries of Former Czechoslovakia” and “’My Flowerless Ones’: Representations of Unmarried Women in the Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield.” Several other publications are forthcoming.