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Faculty / Summer
2004
Faculty of Collegium Hieronymi Pragensis consists of prominent
Czech and internationally recognized social scientist. They are
drawn from a variety of academic and research institutions, Charles
University, Czech Academy of Sciences, Central European University
among them.
Dr. Petr
A. Bilek
Chair of Department of Czech Literature, Charles University
Assistant Professor of Czech Literature, Charles University.
Dr. Bílek belongs among prominent Czech literary theorists and
historians of young generation. He has published two books, "Generace"
osamelych bezcu, Prague 1991, and Stavitele kridel,
Prague 1991, dealing with contemporary poetry, along with a number
of articles in Czech, English, Italian, Russian, Hungarian, and
Slovak. He received his Ph.D. from Charles University in 1994
(dissertation Lyricky subjekt published in 1997) and has
taught there since 1991. In 1994-1995, he was a Visiting Professor
at Brown University. In 1994 he received a Mellon Post Doctoral
Scholarship to continue his research there. He returned to the
Brown University as a Visiting Professor in Spring 2000. He has
lectured in Hamburg, Uppsala and Stockholm, Budapest, Florida
International University at Miami, Columbia, Yale and Brown University.
Ivana
Dolezalova
Translator from English, publicist and film theorist, has
worked as a Fulbright Scholar with the Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures at the North-western 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.
Dr.
Vladimira Dvorakova
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Prague
School of Economics. Dr. Dvorakova's research focuses on comparative
politics (comparative government) and issues of transitions to
democracy. She has co-authored five monographs and textbooks and
lectured at numerous conferences abroad, including Boston (MIT),
Los Angeles, and New York (NYU). She is the Czech coordinator
of the East European Constitutionalism Project (organized by the
American Council of Learned Societies and sponsored by the Pew
Charitable Trust), a member of the Executive Committee of the
Czech political Science Association, Chair of the Task Force for
Eastern Europe of LASA. Dr. Dvorakova manages the journal Politologicka
revue and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Current Europe and
the Czech Republic.
Jitka
Kauerova
is a young, 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 Lukes, 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, Reiters, etc.).
Pavel
Sladek
belongs to the youngest generation of researchers of the
field. In focus of his interest is namely traditional rabbinical literature
starting with the Talmud and commentaries to it. He teaches course in Hebrew
literature and culture, history of Hebrew lettering, and life and work of
prominent Jewish individuals, both in Czech and English.
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