film lecturer and journalist has worked as a Fulbright Scholar with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the North­western University in 1994-96, and returned there as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 1996 and 1999. An integral part of her teaching activities in the US were courses on Czech fea­ture film and documentary. Specifically, she has taught courses on "Czech Feature Films of the Past Few Decades", "Czech Documentary Film at a Crossroad", and "Central Euro­pean Film and Literature". While in the US, she lectured at various universities, Harvard and Stanford Universities, Northwestern University, and the University of Washington among them. In the course of the past decades she has also worked with various media, National Public Radio, The New York Times, ABC, PBS,BBC and has published articles and interviews in Respekt weekly and Presence quarterly.