Senior Lecturer in English for Economics, University of Economics Prague; Czech Language Instructor and translator. She has taught English to Czech students since 1974 and Czech to non-native speakers since 1981. She graduated from Charles University in 1976, where her thesis was entitled The Neologisms in F.X.Šalda’s Critiques and in 1984 she received her doctorate in Language Teaching Methodology. In 1993 she attended a three-month course in teaching methodology at Wolverhampton University in England. She was a Fulbright Scholar in residence at Stanford University, where she taught Czech during the 1995-96 academic year. Over theyears she has translated numerous publications. She also serves as a consultant at two foundations dedicated to publishing the works of the renowned Czech Jewish figures František Langer (dramatist, writer and journalist) and Gideon Klein (composer).