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Faculty / Spring 2010 Faculty of Collegium Hieronymi Pragensis consists of prominent Czech and internationally recognized social scientists. They are drawn form a variety of academic and research institutions, Charles University, Czech Academy of Scinces, Central European University among them.
Senior Lecturer at the English Department, University of Economics. Charles University graduate who has lectured English at all levels and Czech to foreigners in various institutions. She currently offers regular classes in Business English, English for Arts Management, and has published textbooks at the Prague University of Economics.
Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Department of Classical Studies, Institute of Classical Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Professor of Classical Archaeology at Charles University. Dr. Bažant belongs among the most prominent and internationally renowned Czech classical archaeologists. His scholarly interests range from issues of Classical studies to Art history, semiotics of art to iconology. He has lectured at various scholarly institutions throughout Europe and participated in major international Classical Studies publishing and research projects. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International journal EIRENE.
Professor of Czech Literature at the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Charles University. Dr. Bílek belongs among the prominent Czech literary theorists and historians of middle generation. He has published two books dealing with contemporary poetry and one book on contemporary theories of interpretations of narratives, along with a number of articles in Czech, English, French, Italian, Russian, Hungarian, Japanese, and Slovak. In 1994-1995, he was a Visiting Professor at Brown University. In 1995 he received a Mellon Post Doctoral Scholarship to continue his research there for two more years. He returned to the Brown University as a Visiting Professor in Spring 2000. He has lectured in Hamburg, Uppsala, Stockholm, Budapest, Dublin, London, Glasgow, and at Florida International University, Columbia University, University of Texas, and Yale University.
Senior Research Fellow, Director of the Institute of Geology ASCR. Dr. Cílek coordinates numerous EU and UNESCO environmental and geological projects. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Papers of the Czech Speleological Union (25 volumes) and member of editorial boards of major Czech scientific magazines. He has participated in field research expeditions to Asia and Africa (Tanzania, Vietnam, and Nepal) and belongs among the top experts in Pragensia studies. History of Prague, its mythology and archeology is one of the core foci of his research and publishing activities.
translator, 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.
Chair of Institute for Social and Economic Analyses, Executive Director of Donath-Burson-Marsteller. Prior to his current position, Tomáš Jelínek was employed by the state administration and non-profit sector. He worked as Advisor to the Minister of Economy from 1995 to 1996. He served in the Office of the President from 1996 to 2001, where he was mainly responsible for President Vaclav Havel’s economic agenda. Since 2002, he is a member and a co-founder of the Institute for Social and Economic Analyses, of which he just became a Chairman. He has been involved in the non-profit sector since 1998. He served as President of Prague Jewish Community from 2001 to 2005. Currently he is Vice-Chairman of the Czech Committee for Nazi Victims.
translator, gender studies scholar, publicist, musician, taught at the Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University (English Department) from 1990 to 1999. In 1998, she was a Fulbright scholar at the University of California. Since 1991, she has served as a member of the board for the Center for Gender Studies in Prague. Her writing and research focuses on gender studies topics. In 2001, she published Czech translation of The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer. For twenty years, she performed original music as a member of an all women’s rock band, ZUBY NEHTY. She is a member of the feminist media group Meluzina.
is a dynamic and dedicated instructor of Czech. She focuses on teaching Czech to English native speakers. For the purpose of CHP Czech language instruction, she co-authored, together with Dominik Lukeš, a new Czech language textbook. She worked as instructor of Czech for Peace Corps Czech Republic as well as for major international companies and institutions (Citibank, Procter&Gamble, McKensey, Midland Bank, KPMG, British Telecom, Sony, etc.).
Professor of Czech Language, Charles University, is a specialist in the history of Czech and Corpus linguistics who has extensive experience in teaching Czech to foreign students. He received his Ph.D. from Charles University in 1976 (dissertation The Language of J. A. Comenius' Czech Writings, Prague, 1980). He also published Loan Words in Czech (Prague, 1978), and The Czech Language in the U.S.A. (Prague, 1990), and co-authored A Small Dictionary of Old Czech (Prague, 1979). He has lectured abroad at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and the University of Amsterdam. In 1985, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and spent three years as Visiting Professor at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. He is an author of more than 300 studies, reviews, articles, and essays.
Researcher and Lecturer, Institute of Near East and African Studies, Charles University. Dr. Sládek belongs to the specialists in Hebrew and Jewish Studies of the youngest generation in the Czech Republic. His main interest focuses on the traditional rabbinical literature starting with the Talmud and comments to it. He lectures Jewish subjects such as traditional Hebrew literature and culture, history of Hebrew lettering, life and work of prominent Jewish personalities, both to Czech and foreign students at Charles University. He has been proving his high professional and teaching abilities also as an invited special lecturer of guided tours around Jewish sites in the Czech Republic.
Senior Lecturer in English for Economics, University of Economics Prague; Czech Language Instructor and translator. Dr. Vanišová 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).
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