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Research Interests:
My research includes the theories of the Prague linguistic circle, their precursors the Russian formalists and their successors, most prominently the Tartu School around Yuri Lotman. The conference Structuralism(s) Today. Paris, Prague, Tartu organized by the Center, as well as the eponymous volume published in 2009 confirm their relevance and versatility. My main subject of inquiry however is semiotics in general and semiotics of drama and theatre in particular. Another part of my research is connected with the cityscape of Prague as the place that used to be an important center of Czech as well as German literature, and Russian émigré culture. Prague serves as a base to explore the relationship between urban space and fiction, between multiculturalism and nationalism, between center and margins. Furthermore, imaginary creatures, which appear on stage and screen, inform my enquiry about the functions of intermediality, especially of the relationship of fine arts, and architecture with cinema, and theatre.
Education:
MA, PhD - Free University, Berlin
Recent publications:
2009:
“America Relocated – Karel Čapek’s Robots between Prague, Berlin and New York.” In: Performance, Exile and ‘America’. S.Jestrovic, Y. Meerzon (eds.) Palgrave, 2009, 134-157.
“Golems and Robots: Intermediality, Hybridity and the Prague School.” In: Structuralism(s) Today V.Ambros, R. Le Huenen, Andres Simon Perez and Adil D’Sousa (eds.), Legas, Ottawa, 2009, 176-189.
2008:
“Prague’s Experimental Stage: Laboratory of Theatre and Semiotics, “in Semiotica, 2008, 168: 45-65.
2007:
“Engaged’ Playwrights’. Czech Drama between Enlightenment and Gentle Revolution” In: Western Drama through the Ages Westport, J.J. King ed. CT Greenwood Press, 142-153.
“Fuzzy Borderlines – Čapeks’ Robots, Insects, Women and Men” In: History of the Literary Cultures in East-Central Europe. Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer (Editors). Virginia Commonwealth University / University of Amsterdam, 183-189
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