DALC alumni find employment in various fields, including the academia, publishing, education, creative industries, business, and diplomatic service. The profiles of some of our successful alumni below illustrate the variety of talent associated with the department.

ARTS & CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

Michaela Šilpochová is the Programme Director of DOX Centre for Contemporary Art. At the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, she specialized in British literature. She then took on art history and the mutual relations and influences between literature and visual arts became her main focus. During her fifteen years of practice in the field of contemporary visual arts and literature, she has gained extensive experience with the design, management, and implementation of artistic and literary projects as well as their communication strategies. In 2011 she joined DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, where she has curated and co-curated major exhibition projects. Since 2019 she has been the Programme Director of DOX overseeing its interdisciplinary programme including exhibitions, literary events, performing arts & educational programmes.

Jan Zikmund is a publishing editor at the Karolinum Press, translator, and founder of the Zikmund Literary Agency which negotiates publishing opportunities for Czech and Slovak authors abroad. It represents some of the leading poets and prose writers based in Central Europe. In 2025, he edited Dinosauři v ulicích (Dinosaurs in the Streets), a new anthology of contemporary American poetry which presents the work of fourteen contemporary American poets. Between 2018 and 2025, he worked at the Czech Literary Centre where he was responsible for promoting Czech literature in English-speaking countries. He is also an editor of the English-language literary magazine B O D Y and served as a member of the jury of the Magnesia Litera Award for Poetry in 2021-23.

HIGHER EDUCATION MANAGEMENT

Daniel Soukup works as the vice-rector for studies at the Czech private university Ambis. He studied English, German and Czech philology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. From 2002 to 2014, he taught at the Josef Škvorecký Literary Academy and for several years, he was also its vice-rector for studies and international relations. From  2014 to 2022, he worked at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, first as the head of admissions and external relations, and since 2018 as the vice-dean for admissions and external relations. In 2005, he co-founded the European Network of Creative Writing Programmes and acted as its first coordinator, and subsequently as a board member of the follow-up European Association of Creative Writing Programmes. He has published translations, poetry, academic articles, essays, and journalism.

Richard Olehla is vice-president for academic quality at the Anglo-American University in Prague. He graduated from the English Department, Charles University in Prague in 2001 and holds a PhD. in American literature (2011), specializing in post-9/11 American fiction. He has taught a variety of courses in modern American literature and culture at Charles University, the Josef Skvorecky Literary Academy, and the Akcent College. He has been a recipient of the Camoes scholarship (2000) and the J. W. Fulbright scholarship (2005). His professional interest focuses on post 9/11 literature and the relationship between ideology and writing. In 2014, his monograph Perspektivy konce: Thomas Pynchon a americký román po 11. září was published by Karolinum.

PUBLISHING & TRANSLATION

Petr Onufer works as editor for the Argo Publishing House. He studied English and Czech philology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and at the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, CUFA, Prague, and at the Institute of English Studies, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice. At the Argo Publishing House, he runs the editions Anglo-American authors (AAA), Anglo-American poets (AAB), and Specula. His essays on literature have appeared in Revolver Revue, Souvislosti, and other literary magazines. He edited the anthology of 20th century American literary criticism Před potopou. In 2018, his monograph Obtížná balanc. Ke kánonu anglofonních literatur v českém kontextu was published by Karolinum.

Hana Pavelková is a translator and critic. She holds a PhD from the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University in Prague. Her PhD project was on Monologues in Contemporary Anglophone Theatre. Her main field of interest is contemporary Anglophone theatre and drama, and cultural reflections of Brexit. She also works as a translator and cooperates with literary magazine Plav, theatre magazines SAD (World and Theatre) and Modern Theatre, and theatres Dlouhá, ABC, and Na Jezerce. Her translations include David Ireland’s Cyprus Avenue (2018), Moira Buffini’s Handbagged (2013); Caryl Chruchill’s Seven Jewish Children (2009), Owen McCafferty’s Shoot the Crow (2008) and others. She currently teaches at the Department of Economy and Management, University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague.

Ester Žantovská currently works as a theatre critic and a freelance translator. She is an editor of the Svět a divadlo theatre magazine, and she contributes to various Czech newspapers and web cultural magazines such as Artzóna or Aktuálně.cz. As a translator she specializes in film, prose (Anna Burns – Milkman, Shaun Tann – Tales from the Inner City) and predominantly drama. Her translations include works by Martin Crimp, David Mamet, Brian Friel, Mark O’Rowe, Tom Stoppard, Dennis Kelly, Laura Wade, Hadar Galron, David Finnigan and others, most of which have been staged in Czech theatres. For the past ten years she has cooperated with various film festivals, such as the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival or Febiofest, as a translator of film subtitles.

RESEARCH

Jakub Boguszak is a lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Theatre, University of Southampton. Having found his passion for the literature of the English Renaissance in the lectures and seminars run by the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Jakub later continued his postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford. He then worked as a research assistant at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, before taking up a lectureship at the University of Southampton. At Southampton, Jakub currently teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Shakespeare and early modern drama, Elizabethan literature, poetry, and adaptation. His monograph The Self-Centred Art: Ben Jonson’s Parts in Performance (Routledge, 2021) is a study of early modern acting, focusing on the plays of Shakespeare’s only serious rival in comedy, Ben Jonson.

Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová is an assistant professor in Gender Studies at Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague. She earned her PhD from the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University. Her PhD project Chicana Literature: A Feminist Perspective of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Identity Politics was awarded the Martin Hilský Award for an outstanding doctoral thesis. Her research focuses on intersectionality, Chicana feminism and writing, border theory, postcolonial and decolonial thought, feminist literary criticism, LatinX literature, and cultural studies. She is a coeditor of Cesta Amerikou: Antologie povídek regionálních spisovatelek (2011) for which she translated selected Chicana writings into Czech for the first time.

Ladislav Nagy is the head of the Institute for English Studies, University of South Bohemia. He read English and philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague, in 1993 to 1999. In his PhD study he focused on contemporary British fiction and taught a number of seminars in this field, first jointly with Martin Hilský, then independently. He was the editor of the British section at iLiteratura.cz, and his reviews and essays have appeared in mainstream media, such as dailies Lidové noviny, Hospodářské noviny and others. He has published a number of prefaces and afterwords to translations from British and American literature. In 2020, he received the award Magnesia Litera for the best translation of the year (Edward St Aubyn: Patrick Melrose I).

Františka Schormová is a lecturer at the University Hradec Králové and researcher at the Academy of Sciences. She earned her PhD from the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University in December 2020. Her PhD project “African-American Poets Abroad: Black and Red Allegiances in Early Cold War Czechoslovakia” was awarded the Martin Hilský Award, Jan Palach Award, and the Charles Bernheimer Prize awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association. She has been a Fulbright-Masaryk Fellow at Harvard University, Jan Patočka Fellow at IWM Vienna, a PhD Fellow at CEFRES (French Center for Humanities and Social Sciences), and a Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University and a Library Grant Recipient at John F. Kennedy Library at Freie Universität Berlin. She is interested in transnational perspectives on literature, Cold War history, translation studies, and the intersections of literature and racial imaginaries.

Anna Světlíková is a lecturer at the Technical University of Liberec. She received her PhD. in American Literature from the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures in 2012. Her doctoral research examined the typological theory and practice of the 18th-century New England preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards from the perspective of literary history and theory. Part of her research was carried out during her Fulbright scholarship at the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University. She has published and presented papers on Jonathan Edwards in Europe and in the United States and has been involved in several other Edwards-related projects.