On 26 October 2022, the Vilém Mathesius Awards for the best MA and BA theses were awarded by the Vilém Mathesius Foundation for the Promotion of English and American Studies in Prague.
The Foundation was established in 1992 and named after the founder of English studies in Czechoslovakia and the first professor of this subject at Charles University, Vilém Mathesius (1882-1945).
MA Awardees
1st
- Zuzana Holečková: Moving the Frontier of Conscience: Representations of Animal Ethics in Selected Works of Contemporary Anglophone Literature
- Aleksandar Momčilović: Literary Politics of the Radio Free Europe in Czechoslovakia in the Period of “Normalization”
2nd
- Dunja Ilić: Between Mainstream and Avant-Garde Filmmaking: The French New Wave and the Illusion of Realism
- Hana Farniková: Haunted by the New Woman
BA Awardees
- Eliška Zunová: Fiction and Truth in Jeanette Winterson’s Novels
- Jan Kostohryz: Against His Own Theory: The Contradictions of B. S. Johnson’s Fiction
- Kristina Pěkníková: Alternatives to the Married State in the Works of Margaret Oliphant
