On Wednesday 20 October, the Mathesius Awards and Martin Hilský Awards for 2020 and 2021 were presented by representatives of the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures and the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology.
List of award-winning theses in Anglophone literatures
2021
PhD dissertations – Martin Hilský Award
- Veronika Krajíčková: The Problem of the Fixity of Tables: Virginia Woolf as a Non-dualist and Process-Oriented Thinker
- Františka Schormová: African American Poets Abroad: Black and Red Allegiances in Early Cold War Czechoslovakia
MA theses:
1st:
- Peter Ľuba: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Dewey, and the Creative Reader
- Valeryia Sabitova: Brophy, Deligny, and Guattari: The Avant-garde as Subsumption and Stratification
- Jan Zikmund: Edward Thomas as a Critic
2nd:
- Nathalie Lamprecht: Class, Sexuality and Nationalism: Identity Building in the Prose Writings of Brendan Behan
- Tomáš Suchánek: Parasitic Voices and Prosthetic Selves: Detecting the Post-Lyrical Subject in the Works of Contemporary Digital Literature
BA theses:
- Alena Brabencová: A Thesis Against Individualism: Interaction with the Other in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
- Jaroslav Vítek: Writing Victorian London: The Representation of Nineteenth-Century Anxieties in The String of Pearls and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
2020
PhD dissertations – Martin Hilský Award
- Petra Johana Poncarová: The Political Poetry of Derick Thomson
MA theses:
1st:
Teja Šosterič: Labyrinths in Postmodernism: Danielewski, Pynchon, Wallace
BA theses:
Daria Shakurova: Surviving the Good Life: Cruel Optimism of the American Dream in Modern American Drama
James Ragan Prize: Nadezda Tjuska
