Ondřej Pilný

Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Irish Studies. Author of Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama (2006) and editor of J.M. Synge, Hrdina západu: Dramata a próza (an annotated edition of Synge’s work in Czech translation, 2006), Global Ireland: Irish Literatures in the New Millennium (with Clare Wallace, 2006), Time Refigured: Myths, Foundation Texts and Imagined Communities (with Martin Procházka, 2005), Petr Škrabánek, A Night Joyce of a Thousand Tiers (with Louis Armand, 2002), and of two thematic journal issues, Samuel Beckett: Textual Genesis and Reception (with Louis Armand, 2007) and From Brooke to Black Pastoral: Six Studies in Irish Literature and Culture (2001). His work on Irish drama and fiction has appeared in a number of essay collections and academic journals in Ireland, U.K., Hungary, Scandinavia, and the Czech Republic. His published and/or staged translations include plays by Brian Friel, Martin McDonagh and J.M Synge, and Flann O’Brien’s novel The Third Policeman. He is co-editor of the international academic journal Litteraria Pragensia. Studies in Literature and Culture. He is a Representative for Europe on the Executive of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) and its bibliographer for the Czech Republic, member of the Steering Committee of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS), member of the Executive Committee of the Irish Society for Theatre Research (ISTR), committee member of the Irish Forum – Florence 2005 and co-editor of its Report (2006), member of the Czech Association for the Study of English (CZASE), and the German Society for the Study of Contemporary Drama in English (CDE).

Ondřej Pilný welcomes thesis proposals in the following areas:
BA and MA: Irish literature and studies, modern and contemporary theatre and drama
PhD: Modern and contemporary Irish literature in English, modern and contemporary theatre and drama (particularly Irish)

Deadline for Thesis Writers
If I am supervising your BA or MA Thesis and you wish to have it examined in autumn, please be advised that I must receive the complete text no later than July 15. This must be preceded by regular submission of draft versions according to a schedule established on assignment of the thesis topic.