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Faculty / Summer
2010
Dr. Petr
A. Bílek
Chair of Department of Czech Literature, Charles University
Assistant Professor of Czech Literature, Charles University.
Dr. Bílek belongs among the prominent Czech literary theorists and historians of younger generation. He has published two books dealing with contemporary poetry(Generace osamělých běžců, Prague 1991, and Stavitelé křídel, Prague 1991), and one book on contemporary theories of interpretations of narratives (Hledání jazyka interpretace: k modernímu prozaickému textu, Brno 2003), along with a number of articles in Czech, English, Italian, Russian, Hungarian, 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, and at Florida International University, Columbia University, and Yale University.
Ivana
Doležalová
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.
Vladimíra Dvořáková
Professor of Political Science, 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
Kauerová
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 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, Sony, etc.).
Dr. Pavel
Sládek
belongs to very promising and gifted 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. His Ph.D. thesis is devoted to this topic. 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.
Petr Vymětal
Junior Researcher, Centre of Economic Studies, University of Economics Prague. This young economist studied both Political Science and Economics. His PhD. research focuses on various political and economic factors of the Economic Policy, corruption issue, and issues linked with bureaucracy and governance quality/efficiency.
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