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Education and Professional Experience

  • 2019 – 2021 – principal investigator of the EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship project Redefining the Agency: Post-1989 Crises of Czech and Former East German Theatre, Institute for Theatre Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

  • 2018 – 2019 – researcher at the Department of Theatre Studies, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

  • 2018 – researcher at the Department of Czech Theatre Studies, Arts and Theatre Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

  • 2016 – 2017 – director of the Institute for Theatre Research at the JAMU Theatre Faculty, Brno, Czech Republic

  • 2010 – 2017 – researcher, editor, lecturer and later assistant professor at the JAMU Theatre Faculty, Brno, Czech Republic

  • 2012 – Present – co-editor of the theatre journal Svět a divadlo, Prague

  • 2007–2013 Ph.D. in Theatre Studies, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

  • 2002–2007 MA in Theatre Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

  • 2003–2006 MA in Media Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

  • 2002 – Present – freelance theatre critic and journalist

  • 2000–2003 BA in Journalism, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

  • Researching Social Function of Theatre: Transformations in the Czech and the former East German Theatre after 1989. Performing Research, 18 January 2022, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK
  • What is Theatre Good for?: Redefining the Social Role of the Czech and Former East German Theatre after 1989, 25 November 2021, Department of Theatre Theory and Criticism at the Theatre Faculty (DAMU) of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic [in Czech]
  • Winter term 2020/21 – Theatre and Society in Transition, BA-Hauptseminar (online),  Institute for Theatre Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  • Restaging the Political: Contemporary Political Theatre in “Eastern” Europe. Institute for Theatre Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 27 May – 2 June 2019 (block seminar)

  • Performing Time: Space between Materiality and Virtuality. Space: Performative Space in Performing Arts, 4–5 May 2018, conference organized by the Estonian Music and Theatre Academy, Theatre NO99, Tallinn, Estonia

  • Social Inclusion in Practice?: Performing the Other in Contemporary European Theatre. Art and Social Engagement: Challenges and Opportunities, conference organized by the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, 26–27 October 2017, Vilnius City Hall / National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Reflecting on the National and Artists' Identity in the Situation of the (Self-) Censorship. Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre, DAMU, Prague, Czech Republic, 2017, [in Czech]

  • 2017 – Is This Allowed?: Tracing Borders of the Authoritative Discourse. Institute for Theatre Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 2017

  • Forgotten Inspiration. Czech Association of Theatre Scholars, Arts and Theatre Institute Prague, Czech Republic, 2015 [in Czech]

  • “Remember Your Name!“: Aitmatov´s A Day Lasts Longer Than a Hundred Years at the Vinohrady Theatre in Prague (1986) as a Symptomatic Intersection of the Soviet and Czech “Perestroika“ Discourses. Czech Association of Theatre Scholars, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic, 2013 [in Czech]

  • Strategies of Power in the Critical Response to the Joint Project Roads (Crossroads –Timetables– Encounters). Czech Association of Theatre Scholars, Arts and Theatre Institute, Prague, Czech Republic, 2012 [in Czech]

  • 2010, 2014, 2016 – Present member of the International Federation for Theatre Research

  • 2013–2016 – member of the Czech Ministry of Culture grant committee for professional theatre

  • 2013–2015 – committee member of the Association of Czech Theatre Critics/A.I.C.T.

  • 2008–2012 – committee member of the Czech Association of Theatre Scholars

  • 2015 – Present member of editorial board of Theatralia, the Revue of Contemporary Thought on Theatre Culture, Czech Republic

  • 2016 – 2017 chair of JAMU Theatre Faculty´s Committee for publishing

  • 2015 – 2017 chair of the state exam committee in history of Czech theatre at JAMU Theatre Faculty