Originally from Russia, Anna T. Litovkina lives in Hungary and is currently a professor in the Department of English at Pál Tomori College (Kalocsa). She has a PhD in ethnography, and is also a habilitated doctor in linguistics. She has taught a number of courses on linguistics, folklore and cultural studies (including such specialized offerings as Anglo-American Proverbs, American Humor, and American Folklore), as well as on the English, Hungarian and Russian languages. She is the author of nine books on proverbs, including A Proverb a Day Keeps Boredom Away (2000), Magyar közmondástár (2005), Old Proverbs Never Die, They Just Diversify: A Collection of Anti-Proverbs (in co-authorship with Wolfgang Mieder, 2006), „Viccében él a nemzet”. Válogatott közmondás-paródiák (2006, in co-authorship with Katalin Vargha), as well as more than eighty articles on the subject. She has been a co-editor of a special issue (52/1) of Acta Ethnographica Hungarica on Anti-Proverbs (2007, with Carl Lindahl) and of a special issue (54/1) of Acta Ethnographica Hungarica on Humour and Folklore (2009, with Péter Barta).
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