prof. PhDr.

Tomáš Kubíček

Ph.D.

academic staff member

Consultation hours by prior arrangement, both online and in person.

 

Offered thesis topics:
20th-century Czech literature, literary theory, comparative analyses of Czech and world literature, history of novelistic poetics

Brief Biography:

Education:

  • 2013: Professor, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
    2008: Associate Professor (Docent), Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
    2005: PhDr., Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
    1999: Ph.D., Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno
    1991: M.A. (Mgr.), Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno

Employment:

  • 1991–1993: Researcher, Moravian Museum
    1994–1996: Deputy Head of the Literary Department, Moravian Museum
    1996–1999: Researcher, Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ICL CAS)
    1999–2003: Head of the Brno Branch, ICL CAS
    2000–2014: Research Fellow, ICL CAS (part-time from 2011, 0.2 FTE)
    2003–2007: Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Prose Theory, ICL CAS, Prague
    2008–present: Professor, Faculty of Education, Charles University, Prague
    2011–2014: Head of the Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University, Olomouc
    2014–present: Director, Moravian Library in Brno

Taught Courses:

History of Czech Literature I
History of Czech Literature II

Professional Focus:

literary theory, narratology, literary structuralism, Czech literature after 1920

 

Selected Research Activities:

  • Author of the monograph Řád tvaru: tradicionalistické časopisy v období první republiky (The Order of Form: Traditionalist Journals in the First Republic Period, Host, Brno 2020)
  • Co-author of Sémantika narativního prostoru (Semantics of Narrative Space, VUP, Olomouc 2015)
  • Author of the monograph Dvojí domov Jana Čepa (Jan Čep’s Double Homeland, Host, Brno 2014)
  • Co-author of Strukturální analýza vyprávění (Structural Analysis of Narrative, Dauphin, Prague 2013)
  • Author of Felix Vodička – názor a metoda. K dějinám českého strukturalismu (Felix Vodička – Thought and Method: On the History of Czech Structuralism, Academia, Prague 2010)
  • Editor of the catalogue Českomoravská pokladnice: české kalendáře 19. a první poloviny 20. století (The Bohemian-Moravian Treasury: Czech Calendars of the 19th and Early 20th Century, Moravian Library, 2024)
  • Co-author and editor of catalogues and monographs on the translation of Czech literature into German, English, French, and Polish (2020–2022)
  • Author of numerous scholarly studies on literary theory, narratology, and 20th-century Czech literature
  • Lectures delivered at international conferences and universities (e.g. Sorbonne 2022, Brussels 2022, Hong Kong 2025, Taiwan 2024–2025)

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