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Mgr. Františka Schormová, Ph.D.
- Workplace: PdF - Department of English Language and Literature
- assistant professor
- E-mail: frantiska.schormova@uhk.cz
- Phone: 493331308
- Building: A
- Room: 33240 3. floor
Consular Hours
Mo: 08:55-09:55
Please, let me know you are coming. Also, other times are available for online consultations.
Academic profiles
UHK Publications
SCHORMOVÁ, Františka. Tractors and Translators: Langston Hughes in Cold War Czechoslovakia. PMLA. 2023, 138 (3), 519-533. ISSN 0030-8129.
Resume
Position
from 2021: Assistant Professor
Education and Qualifications
2016 - 2020: PhD program English and American Literature, Charles University, Faculty of Arts
2014 - 2016: MA program Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University, Faculty of Arts
2010 - 2014: BA program English and American Studies and German in Intercultural Communication, Charles University, Faculty of Arts
Teaching Experience
Teacher of English and Academic English (Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies, Jazykoffka, Jabok Academy)
Reading African American Literature Now (and from Europe), taught and designed the seminar, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (2019/2020)
Research Activities
from 2022: Postdoctoral research project, Department of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
2019 - 2021: PhD Fellow, Associated Fellow, CEFRES - French Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences
Academic Stays Abroad
2023: The Eccles Centre for American Studies – The British Library, Library Grant, Visiting Fellow
2022: Library Grant Recipient, John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin
2022: Visiting Fellow, Northumbria University
2021: Jan Patočka Fellow, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Wien
2017 - 2018: Fulbright-Masaryk Fellow, Harvard University
2017: Visiting Researcher, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Oxford University (May 2017, EUROPAEUM)
2016: Visiting Student, John F. Kennedy Institute of North American Studies, Free University Berlin (KAAD scholarship)
2013: Erasmus+ Visting Student, Edinburgh Napier University
Academic and Non-academic Activities and Interests
2022: Charles Bernheimer Prize, American Comparative Literature Association (honorable mention, dissertation)
2021: Jan Palach Award for Outstanding Research - PhD thesis, Charles University, Faculty of Arts
2021: Martin Hilský Award - PhD thesis, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University, Faculty of Arts
2016: Mathesius Award - MA thesis, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University, Faculty of Arts
