Klára Witzany Hutková is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Irish Studies (Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures) at Charles University in Prague. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the theatre of Marina Carr and the cultural heritage of ancient Greece. Other research interests include women prose writers and Irish folklore. Klára received a Master’s degree in Irish studies from Charles University in 2021 and an undergraduate degree in Ancient history from the University of Edinburgh in 2015. She was a visiting student at University College Dublin (2021–22), Trinity College Dublin (2020–21), and Université de Bourgogne (2013–14). She is a member of the advisory board of The Protagonist, editorial assistant at Litteraria Pragensia, and an editor at PLAV: Měsíčník pro světovou literaturu.

Contact: Klara.Hutkova@ff.cuni.cz

ORCID: 0000-0003-0014-3661

Grant projects:

2022–2024: Giving Voice to the Outsider: Marina Carr’s Revision of the Other of Classical Athens, number 150122. Funding body: Charles University Grant Agency.

Publications:

Witzany Hutková, Klára. ‘Irony, Trauma, and Compassion: Brendan Behan’s and Maeve Brennan’s Mid-century Short Prose’. Litteraria Pragensia 34. 67 (2024): 105–124.

Witzany Hutková, Klára. ‘Review: Lukáš Brutovský’s Hekuba (Marina Carr)’. The Protagonist 2 (2024): 51–53.

Witzany Hutková, Klára. ‘O sebenalézání v prostoru (Jhumpa Lahiri: Kde zrovna jsem)’, PLAV: Měsíčník pro světovou literaturu 20. 2 (2024): 61–62.

Witzany Hutková, Klára. ‘Review of Redress: Ireland’s Institutions and Transitional Justice, by Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O’Rourke, and James M. Smith (eds)’. Review of Irish Studies in Europe 6. 1 (2023): 82–88.

Hutková, Klára. ‘Review: Marina Carr’s Girl on an Altar’, The Protagonist 1 (2023): 69–70.

Hutková, Klára. ‘Od Zámku ke Klíči (Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Klíč)’, PLAV: Měsíčník pro světovou literaturu 18. 4 (2022): 57–8.