Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University

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Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University

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25/04/2026

Entrance exams today - good luck everyone! 🍀

13/04/2026

👤Dr. Zita Turi from the Institute of English Studies at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary has recently spent a week at our department as part of the Erasmus+ programme.

🔗Check out the University's socials through the link below!
https://www.facebook.com/KaroliEnglish

✍ Zita is an expert on early English literature, including the works of William Shakespeare. Did you know that she wrote the introduction to the new Czech translation of Much Ado About Nothing by our student Anna Hrdinová?
"I really enjoyed writing the introduction to Much Ado About Nothing," said Zita, "partly because I am a fan of the sharp and witty exchanges between Beatrice and Benedick."

🏙 And how did she enjoy her stay in Brno?
"My visit to Brno was equally rewarding: a beautiful city with a rich cultural life, excellent food and beer, and the pleasure of teaching such intelligent and lovely students."

Many thanks to Zita for visiting us! ❤

01/04/2026

Mark it in your calendars!
📆April 14, 17:45 in Room G24

The Department of English and American Studies and the Canadian Studies Center invite you to a film screening of the award-winning Canadian drama exploring love, struggle, and the bond between a mother and her son.

The screening will take place as part of Canadian Film Days!

31/03/2026

📚 The lost play of Shakespeare as rewritten by Theobald? A new translation from the great minds of our department!

🔗Available now with a 10% discount at Masaryk University's e-shop here: https://munishop.muni.cz/dve-svatebni-komedie-c6833
or from selected booksellers.

The third volume of the Student Editions of English Renaissance Drama has recently been published. The series is supported by our department and its general editor is our student Anna Hrdinová. The book contains Czech translations of two thematically related plays: Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing", translated by Anna Hrdinová herself, and the early-18th-century tragicomedy by Lewis Theobald "Double Falsehood", which was probably based on the lost play "Cardenio" by Shakespeare and his younger colleague John Fletcher. The play is for the first time presented to Czech readers in the translation by Filip Krajník. Both of the plays are accompanied by contextual studies outlining the context in which they were written, their relevance for our times and, in the case of "Much Ado About Nothing", its Czech translation and stage history.

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V minulých dnech vyšel již třetí svazek edice anglických renesančních dramat ve studentských vydáních, který vede Anna Hrdinová při naší katedře. Kniha obsahuje české překlady dvou tematicky příbuzných her: Shakespearova "Tolika poprasku pro nic", který pod tímto názvem nově přeložila Anna Hrdinová, a tragikomedii Lewise Theobalda "Dvojí faleš" z počátku 18. století, založenou patrně na ztracené hře "Cardenio" Williama Shakespeara a jeho mladšího kolegy Johna Fletchera. Hra se v tomto svazku představuje v překladu Filipa Krajníka českým čtenářům poprvé. Obě hry doprovázejí kontextové studie osvětlující kontext, ve kterém díla vznikla, jejich význam pro současnost a v případě "Tolika poprasku pro nic" i jeho českou překladatelskou i divadelní tradici. Tento i oba předchoztí svazky si můžete pořídit s 10% slevou na e-shopu Masarykovy univerzity nebo u vybraných knihkupců.

12/03/2026

With Spring come new Research Seminars! ✍

Tune in on Fridays March 13, March 27, April 17, and May 15 at 12 PM in room G31 to listen in on various lecturers' recent research.

See you there!

10/03/2026

Your faculty, your voice! 🗳️

The SKAS FF MUNI elections have officially begun! Not sure what the Academic Senate actually does?
Check out the video to find out! 👀

We wish all the luck to every candidate this year, in our video you can see two representatives:

David Buxbaum and Bc. Jakub Tesař, current students of the Department of English and American Studies.

Read their programmes and cast your vote through this link: https://is.muni.cz/auth/volba/70786 or scan the QR code at the end of the video.
�Voting closes March 16! Go vote! ✅

06/03/2026

We invite you to a public lecture hosted by our assistant professor, Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D.

Settler (Un)Belonging in Contemporary Australian Memoir

🕚 When? Wednesday, March 11, 2026, at 15-16.30 (CET)
📍 Where? Meeting Room of the Dean's Office, Arne Nováka 1, Building C, 2nd Floor

🔗 It is also possible to join online via Zoom (click the link below or scan the QR code).
https://is.muni.cz/go/habilitace_horakova

Tune in with us for this interesting lecture!

06/03/2026

Our Re:Views Magazine is up and running! Send your submissions their way.
Citing their post below, but check out the original here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1CaNFZsEBU/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Re:Views Magazine Issue XVII 2026
“Tennyson celebrates the mystery of life and death, the reality of spirit, and the necessity of love in human experience.”
- EDGAR F. SHANNON, JR., Poetry as Vision: Sight and Insight in “The Lady of Shalott”

Art and Life. These concepts intertwine, and yet as we near the end of the third decade of the 21st century, they are polarised as never before. What value do we place on them? Are there even such concepts still, and where do we find them in the contemporary reality of our world? Let us examine these questions with the new issue of the Re:Views Magazine.

SUBMISSIONS
- Opened from the 10th of March 2026 until the 30th of August 2026
- Previously unpublished Research Paper/Article ranging from 1500 to 2500 words
- Chicago citation norm
- Send your submission to our email: [email protected]

Suggestion: As courses at the Masaryk University and our Department of English and American Studies are often very inspiring, we highly recommend you consider submitting a research paper originating from one of them (with the permission of the lecturer). This paper should fall under the overall objectives of our magazine and the theme of the 17th issue, which is “Art and Life” and all that one of these terms may concern. Nevertheless, the topic serves more as an inspiration than a requirement.

Bear in mind that each text will be read and revised by one of the magazine editors, as well as the chief editor and an academic associate.
Should your text be chosen for publication, one of our team members will contact you to discuss the possible revision. We kindly ask you to take any comments into consideration as we strive to preserve a high level of academic integrity.

Publishing with our magazine represents a chance for you to obtain a (non-academic) publication and thus begin your professional journey.

Our website where your article will be also published: https://reviewsmagazine.net

With any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact us via our email or social media.
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: .views.magazine
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReViewsMagazine

“But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror's magic sights,
For often through the silent nights
A funeral, with plumes and lights
And music, went to Camelot:
Or when the moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed;
"I am half sick of shadows," said
The Lady of Shalott.”
The Lady of Shalott – Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1832

23/02/2026

We hereby invite you to the public meeting of the doctoral examination and the defence of dissertation.

📚 In front of the commitee in the field of Literatures in English, Mgr. Bc. Pavlína Studená will defend "Growing Old in the Pages: Representations of Aging Women in Contemporary Canadian Fiction".

🕚 When? Friday, February 27, 2026, at 11 AM (11:00 CET - Prague)
📍 Where? Room G33 at the Department of English and American Studies, Gorkého 7, G building, 3rd floor.

The commitee comprises of:

Chairman:
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, Ph.D.
Masaryk University – Faculty of Arts

Members:
Prof. Dr. Ulla Kriebernegg
University of Graz – Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing and Care
doc. Mgr. Šárka Bubíková, Ph.D.
University of Pardubice – Faculty of Arts
PaedDr. Katarína Labudová, Ph.D.
Catholic University in Rožumberok – Faculty of Arts
Prof. Alejandra Moreno Alvarez
University of Oviedo – Department of English, French and German Philology

Oponents:
Prof. Dr. Ulla Kriebernegg
University of Graz – Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing and Care
Prof. Alejandra Moreno Alvarez
University of Oviedo – Department of English, French and German Philology

Supervisor:
Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D.
Masaryk University – Faculty of Arts

🔗 The electronic version of Doctoral Thesis and opponent’s reports are available at https://is.muni.cz/th/o4cz0/ or by scanning the QR code on the graphic accompanying this invitation.

10/02/2026

On behalf of the organisers, we invite you to a guided tour of the exhibition:

Sparks of Freedom: British Support for the Brno Dissident Movement in the 1980s

📆 The tour will take place on Thursday, 26 February 2026 and begin at 4:00 p.m.

👤 The exhibition will be presented by its curators, Romana Dominika Hrbatová and Petra Pichlová, with interpretation into English provided by Jana Klapilová.

ℹ️ More information about the exhibition is available on the website of the Department of the History of Anti-Totalitarian Culture of the Moravian Museum:

https://mzm.cz/paprsky-svobody

📍 The guided tour will take place directly in the exhibition, in the Marble Halls of the Moravian Museum at Biskupský dvůr.

🎫 Please note that tickets for the guided tour must be purchased at the Dietrichstein Palace at Zelný trh. Standard exhibition admission applies. At the main ticket office, you can also purchase the exhibition catalogue, which is also available for order in the Moravian Museum e-shop in both Czech and English:

https://www.mzm.cz/detail/d/Paprsky-svobody/2
https://www.mzm.cz/detail/d/Sparks-of-Freedom/1

07/02/2026

Check out the latest issue of the journal
✨ Brno Studies in English ✨

📘The full texts, including the Special Issue:
“Encounters with water: an ecolinguistic perspective”
is available online at:
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/bse/issue/view/2801
or scan the QR code on the post!

Adresa

Gorkého 7
Brno
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Telefon

+420549493899

Internetová stránka

http://english.phil.muni.cz/

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