Guest Lectures
2018
Professor Timo Müller (University of Regensburg) on “Transnational Mobility on the American Road”.
2017
Professor Jennifer Riddle Harding, Summer semester Fulbright Lecturer, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University-Prague (Washington & Jefferson College) on “Puns in American Literature and Culture”.
2015
Doctor James Deutsch (Smithsonian Institution and the George Washington University) on “A Psychoanalytical Approach to Folklore”.
2014
Professor Barbara Ladd, Winter semester Fulbright Lecturer, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University-Prague (Emory University, Atlanta), on“Beyond the Plantation: Race and Class at the Edge of the Swamp”
Professor Victor Castellani (University of Denver) on "Tennessee Williams: On the Kindness of Strangers and Harshness of Kin"
Professor Carol Frost (Alfond Professor of English, Rollins College) on "Elizabeth Bishop’s Inner Eye"
2013
Professor Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo) on "Textual Sleuthing, Editorial Theory and the Manuscripts of Emily Dickinson"
Alice Notley (poet, Pulitzer Prize finalist) on "Post-Olsonian Epic"
2011
Professor John T. Matthews, 2010-11 Fulbright Lecturer, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University-Prague (Boston University) on “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Problem of the South in American Literary Imagination”
Professor Paul Levitt (University of Colorado) on"The Narrator as Hero in The Great Gatsby"
2010
Eric S. Petersen (lawyer, Thomas Jefferson expert) on "The Vision of Thomas Jefferson"
2008
Professor Valerie Miner, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research (Stanford University) on “Trespass and Settlement: Crossing the Gender Frontier in the American West”
Professor Hugh Silverman (Stony Brook University) on “Being Postmodern Plural and The Sense of the World: From Plato to The Matrix”
Publications
2018
The Power of the Impossible: On Community and the Creative Life. By Erik S. Roraback. Winchester, UK / Washington DC, USA: Iff Books.
2017
The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities. By Erik S. Roraback.
Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, USA: Brill.
2015
Between Two Fires: Transnationalism & Cold War Poetry. By Justin Quinn.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
2012
Ruins in the New World. By Martin Procházka, Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books.
2011
Lectures on American Literature, Third Edition. Edited by Justin Quinn. Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze.
Transformation, Translation, Transgression: Native American Culture in Contact and Context. Edited by Raeschelle Potter-Deimel and Klára Kolinská. Litteraria Pragensia, vol. 21, no. 42.
2007
The Dialectics of Late Capital and Power: James, Balzac and Critical Theory. By Erik S. Roraback. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2005
American Errancy: Empire, Sublimity and Modern Poetry. By Justin Quinn. Dublin: University College Dublin Press.
Contemporary Aboriginal Literature in North America. Edited by Klára Kolinská and Brigitte Georgi-Findlay. Litteraria Pragensia, vol. 15, no. 30.
2004
American Gothic. Edited by Martin Procházka and Charles L. Crow. Litteraria Pragensia, vol. 14, nr. 28.
2002
Gathered Beneath the Storm: Wallace Stevens, Nature and Community. By Justin Quinn. Dublin: University College Dublin Press.
2000
Interpreting Machines: Aesthetics, History and Allegory in Hawthornes's Tales. Edited by Martin Procházka. Litteraria Pragensia, vol. 10, no. 19.