Mgr.
Radim Kopáč
external staff member
Consultations anytime via e-mail.
Thesis topics:
The margins, background, and underground of local (and international) cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries: erotica, pornography, horror, comedy, avant-garde, dadaism, surrealism, underground, punk, anarchism, children‘s/youth literature, comics
Brief Biography:
Journalism and Media Studies / FSV UK (graduated 2004)
Worked at Český rozhlas (Vltava) and at the Ministry of Culture (Department of Literature and Libraries).
Literary and art critic, essayist, editor, and curator; collaborates with print, radio, and television; author of several dozen book publications, for example Nevěstince a nevěstky (with J. Schwarz, 2012), Pijácká čítanka (with J. Šofar, 2018), Praha ožralá (with P. Stančík, 2021), Příšerná hostina (2023), Praha kafkovská (with P. Stančík, 2024), Praha mordýřská a zlodějská (P. Stančík, 2025), Ty čuně! (2025), and Rozum, který mi uletěl (2025).
Taught Courses:
Contemporary Literary Life
Walk Through Erotic and Drunken Prague
Walk Through Franz Kafka’s Prague
Walk Through Jaroslav Hašek’s Prague (since 2026)
Professional Focus:
The margins, background, and underground of local (and international) cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries: erotica, pornography, horror, comedy, avant-garde, dadaism, surrealism, underground, punk, anarchism, children‘s/youth literature, comics
Related Activities:
Mentioned in the biography, further selected items here:
Editor of monographs by H. Schmidová (Struktury a funkce, 2011; with A. Haman), O. Malevič (V perspektivě desetiletí, 2015; with A. Haman), I. Vörös (Co je ironická věda, 2017), and L. Engelking (Komu múza přeje, 2020)