doc. Mgr. Zuzana Říhová, Ph.D.
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Dean of the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Associate Lecturer of Czech and Comparative Literature
- Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Letenská 5, Prague 1
Zuzana Říhová is an acclaimed scholar of avant-garde and modernism as well as a writer. She graduated with a degree in Czech and Comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Her research centres on the Czech avant-garde and modernism in a wider European context. Říhová consistently publishes in foreign academic journals (eg. Central Europe, Journal of Modern Literature) and collective monographs (Avantgarden im Zentraleuropa, A Cambridge History of World War One Poetry). In 2013, she received a Czech Academy of Sciences Award for Outstanding Research. As a fiction writer, her novel Playing Wolf was shortlisted for the top Czech fiction prize in 2022 and translated into several languages.
Since 2007, Říhová has been a member of the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and she lectured at a variety of both public and private universities. She also served as a director of PSCC. In 2014, she became Head of Czech at Oxford University, and she was a visiting professor at Columbia University (2018–19). She has completed several internships abroad (SUNY, University of Glasgow, University College London, Humboldt Univerzität zu Berlin); she is regularly invited to give public or university lectures (Université libre de Bruxelles, University of Vienna, Oxford University, Bohemian National Hall, New York).
At AAU, Říhová teaches classes on modernism (Modernist Metropolis) and creative writing – writing fiction is her passion. When she isn’t writing, she lifts kettlebells, runs, and picks mushrooms with her two daughters.
Specializations: avant-garde and modernism, creative writing and storytelling
Publications & Other Activities
Scientific monographs
- From Laughter to Forgetting. A Sourcebook of Interwar Avant-garde Discourses; ed. Z. Říhová; Praha, Karolinum 2023
- Vprostřed davu. Česká avantgarda mezi individualismem a kolektivismem; Praha, Academia 2016
Fiction
- Mimka; Praha, Argo 2026
- Rok Proměny; Praha, Argo 2024
- Playing Wolf/ Cestou špendlíků nebo jehel; Praha, Argo 2021
- č첹;Praha, Dauphin 2018
- Pustím si tě do domu; Praha, Dauphin 2016
Selected book chapters and articles
- „Analphabetic Modernism: T. S. Eliot’s Poetry in Czech Translation in the 1940s“; in H. Veivo et al.: Globalizing Avant-Garde. European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, vol. 7; Berlin, De Gruyter 2023, s. 119–228
- „Tschechoslowakei, Tschechien, Slowakei“; in D. Unterkofler, V. Faber, W. Müller-Funk, edd.:Avantgarden im Zentraleuropa. Andere Räume, andere Bühnen; Tübingen, Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH 2023, s. 221–254
- „Czechoslovak Poetry during the First World War“; in J. Potter, ed.: A Cambridge History of World War One Poetry; Cambridge, CUP 2022, s. 118–138
- „For a New Novel: Milada Součková and Czech Modernist Fiction in the 1930s“; in H. Veivo, ed.: Beyond Given Knowledge. Investigation, Quest and Exploration in Modernism and the Avant-Gardes. European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, vol. 5; Berlin, De Gruyter 2018, s. 299–313
- „A Farewell to the Whole Epoch: the Zone as the Beginning and End of the Czech Avant-garde“; Journal of Modern Literature 43, 2020, č. 4, s. 45–61
- „‚Nothing is Certain‘: Czech Post-War Literature Between the Avant-Garde and Expressionism“; Central Europe 14, 2016, č. 2, s. 125–140