English Literature Section

• Mgr. Tereza Bambušková: Viktoriánská duchařská povídka – studie žánru
• Mgr. Eva Bilská: Shakespeare’s Political World and Its Transformations
• Mgr. Anastasiia Fediakova: Food in Anglophone Writing of South Asian Diaspora
• Mgr. Martina Hrbková: Corporeal Geographies: Women Walking and Inhabiting the City in the Writing of Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys
• Mgr. Dominika Kecsöová: The Space of Enclosure and the Female-Gendered Body in Middle English Literature
• Mgr. Anna Malá: Political Discourse, Rhetoric and its Gender Concerns in William Shakespeare’s Plays
• Rebeca Marie Murray: Sense, Reason and Romantic Form: A Study of Aesthetics and Rhetoric from Empiricism to Romanticism
• Rui Rato: Belladona’s Plight: Erotic Transgressions in Victorian Literature
• Tetyana Varvanina: Libertine Philosophy through the Prism of Restoration Literature

American Literature and Cultural Studies Section

• Mgr. Michaela Drbohlav Plicková: History, Gender, and Narrative Strategies in Eudora Welty’s Literary Relationship with William Faulkner
• Mgr. Jevgenija Konoreva: Anti-identity: Lars von Trier films expanding the boundaries of queer studies
• Mgr. Kateřina Kovářová: Cormac McCarthy’s America
• Mgr. Filip Krtička: Reading Faulkner’s Minds
• Mgr. Peter Ľuba: Neo-Idealism, Pragmatism, Creativity: The Philosophies of Flow, Movement, Perception and Creation for Literary Analysis in the Twenty-First Century
• Nuri Batuhan Lüleci: Transgressive Life Writing and Exilic Criticism
• Emanuela Maltese, PhD: A Postcolonial Reading of James Baldwin
• Mgr. Ondřej Polák: Contemporary African American Theatre and its relation to the present and the past
• Mgr. Zdeněk Polívka: Frontier in American 20th century literature
• Mgr. Jamie Rose: Ongoing Queerness: The Flourishing of Trans Women’s Literature in North America

Centre for Irish Studies

• Mgr. Marie Gemrichová: Memory in Post-Agreement Northern Irish Novel
• Mgr. Klára Hutková: Giving Voice to the Outsider: Marina Carr’s Revision of the Other of Classical Athens
• Mgr. Galina Kiryushina: Cross-Medial Transitions in the Work of Samuel Beckett
• Mgr. Nathalie Lamprecht: Identity, migration and fragmentation: The young woman in recent Irish fiction
• Mgr. Markéta Pospíšilová: The Concept of Love in the Works of Oscar Wilde

Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory

• Mgr. Vít Bohal: The Future is Posthuman: Feminisms of Alienation from 1970 until Today
• Mgr. Yana Gridneva: Animal at the Intersection: Cultural Representations of Animality
• Mgr. Elizabet Kovačeva: The Ethics of Choice in the Theatre of Caryl Churchill: A Xenofeminist Approach
• Mgr. Darya Kulbashna: Note All and Nothing: Indeterminacy of Meaning in the Writing of Samuel Beckett and Experimental Music of the New York School
• Mgr. Valeriya Sabitova: Sensation and Affect: Embodiment of Violence in Francis Bacon and Sarah Kane

European Joint Doctorate MOVES

• Iva Dodevska, M.A.
• Lucía Bonilla Lara, M.A.

Recent Graduates

• Mgr. Jana Marešová, PhD: Storytelling and Myth in Contemporary Canadian Aboriginal Novel
• Vidya Kesavan, PhD: Nuclear Shakespeare: Apocalypse and Annihilation in King Lear and Hamlet (Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate TEEME: Text and Event in Early Modern Europe)
• Mgr. Veronika Krajíčková, PhD: The Problem of the Fixity of Tables in Virginia Woolf’s Works
• Mgr. Františka Schormová, PhD: African American Poets Abroad: Black and Red Allegiances in Early Cold War Czechoslovakia