Journal Issues

• IRELAND AND SCOTLAND: CULTURAL INTERSECTIONS ACROSS THE IRISH SEA, Litteraria Pragensia 33:65 (2023), ed. Radvan Markus & Petra Johana Poncarová (available in open access)
• CELTIC LANGUAGES IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD, Litteraria Pragensia 30:59 (2020); ed. Radvan Markus & Petra Johana Poncarová (available in open access)
• IRISH-LANGUAGE AND SCOTTISH GAELIC LITERATURES: A GLOBAL CONTEXT, Litteraria Pragensia 28: 55 (2018); ed. Radvan Markus & Petra Johana Poncarová
• CULTURAL EXCHANGES IN SCOTTISH LITERATURE, Litteraria Pragensia 27: 53 (2017); ed. Martin Procházka and Petra Johana Poncarová
• SCOTLAND IN EUROPE, Litteraria Pragensia 19: 38 (2009); ed. Murray Pittock

Conferences and Workshops

• Cultural Links between Irish and Scottish Gaelic, 11 November 2022
• 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures, 22-26 June 2022
• Robert Burns in European Culture, 6-8 March 2009
• Byron: East and West: 24th International Byron Conference, 1998

International Cooperation

• International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
• Ionad Eòghainn MhicLachlain | National Centre for Gaelic Translation

Guest Lectures

• Peter Mackay: Re-writing the Middle Ages in the 19th and 20th Centuries (9 November 2023)
• Robin MacKenzie: Scenes from the Shoormal | The Shoreline as Topos in the Work of Some Contemporary Scottish Poets (18 October 2023)
• Murray Pittock: Scotland in Europe before Brexit (19 October 2022)
• Rob Dunbar: Gaelic in Canada (20 February 2020)
• Monika Kocot: Alan Spence and the Japanese Poetic Tradition (11 November 2019); Voices and Messages in Edwin Morgan’s Poetry (13 November 2019)
• Murray Pittock: Edinburgh and Smart Cities of the Enlightenment (6 November 2019)
• Caroline McCracken-Flesher: Stevenson, Wilde, and the West of the Imagination (5 November 2019)
• Alan Spence: lecture and reading (22 November 2017)
• Christopher Whyte: MacDiarmid and Shame (21 October 2015)
• Margery Palmer McCulloch: Karel Čapek and Early Twentieth-century Dystopian Writing (14 October 2015)
• Margery Palmer McCulloch: From Orkney to Prague: Edwin Muir and the ‘Single, Disunited World’ of Twentieth-Century Europe (2014)
• Murray Pittock: What Is a National Culture?; Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns in relation to Enlightenment thought in Scotland (2010)

Cultural Events

• Suspicious Tins: Contemporary Poetry in Irish and Scottish Gaelic with Peter Mackay (10 November 2023)
• Czech-Scottish Poetry Connections: Jitka Bret Srbová, Ondřej Lipár, Rob A Mackenzie, Niall O’Gallagher, Olga Stehlíková, Alycia Pirmohamed (16 November 2022)
• Contemporary Literature in Irish and Scottish Gaelic: Peter Mackay, Alan Titley, Christopher Whyte (12 November 2022)
• European Day of Languages: Christopher Whyte (30 September 2022)
• Exhibition Czech-Scottish Relations (24 June 2022 – 30 September 2022, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
• HYB4: Christopher Whyte | Ceum air Cheum (4 March 2020)
• Fra | Poetry in Service: Christopher Whyte (22 October 2015)

Scottish Collection at the English and Romance Studies Library

• primary and secondary literature
• works in English, Scots, and Gaelic

Erasmus Agreements

• Edinburgh Napier University
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Highlands and Islands
• University of St Andrews
• University of Stirling

Theses

PhD

• Patra Jumsai Na Ayudhya: A Spatial Reading of Edinburgh through 20th and 21st century Scottish Fiction
• Petra Johana Poncarová: The Political Poetry of Derick Thomson (2020)
• Olga Roebuck: Subverting Scotland: Cultural Identities in Contemporary Scottish Fiction (2007)

MA

• Anežka Stehlíková: “New Future Selves:” Gender Fluidity in the Short Stories of Jackie Kay and Ali Smith (2022)
• Petra Johana Poncarová: From the Woods of Raasay to Glasgow Streets: Poetry of Place in the Works of Sorley MacLean and Derick Thomson (2014)

BA

• Markéta Karlasová: Magic in Christopher Whyte’s Novels (2023)
• Kristina Pěkníková: Alternatives to the Married State in the Works of Margaret Oliphant (2022)
• 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 (2021)
• Anežka Stehlíková: Renderings of the Self: The Theme of Fluid Identity in the Work of Jackie Kay (2020)
• Helena Roušová: Heroin / Heroine: Addiction as Narrative and Transgression in Junky and Trainspotting (2019)
• Marija Zdraveska: “And the Land Lay Still”- Worldmaking, Topography and the Modern Scots Novel (2017)
• Tomáš Balvín: Anarchy and Anarchism in the works of James Kelman
• Adéla Matejová: Representation of Scotland on Screen: Symbols of Scottish Identity in the Cinematography of the 21st Century (2016)
• Anna Krýsová: Speech and Characters in Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley and The Heart of Midlothian (2014)
• Šárka Homolová: The Development and style of Ossianic Myth (2010)