Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

• Modern Czech Cinema
• Russian Literature from Pushkin to Dostoevsky
• Czech Literature and Film
• Central European Cinema
• Robots and Beer Pubs: Czech Culture from 863 to 1989
• From Kafka to Kundera: Modern Czech Literature (C364)
• Czech language
• Russian Language

Czech underground culture, Modern Czech literature, Czech-Russian literary relations, literary translation, Jára (da) Cimrman

Editor in Chief of Three String Books, Slavica Publishers

Dissertation: “Pushkin’s Evgenji Onegin, Dostoevsky’s Besy, Capek’s Hordubal, and Kundera’s Zert: The First-Person Novel in Czech and Russian Literature.”

Books:

Culture and Customs of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Greenwood Press, 2006.

Book translations:

Magdaléna Platzová, Aaron's Leap,Bellevue Literary Press, 2014.

Ivan Klíma, My Crazy Century: A Memoir, Grove Atlantic, 2013.

Vladimír Macura, The Mystifications of a Nation with Hana Píchová, Wisconsin University Press, 2010.

Michal Viewegh, What's So Special About Christmas, Anyway?, Garamond, 2010.

Jan Neruda, Prague Tales From the Little Quarter,Vitalis, 2005.

Vladimír Páral, Lovers & Murderers, Catbird Press, 2001.