Department of Political Science and Anglophone Studies

petr.just@mup.cz

PhDr. Petr Just, Ph.D. majored in the field Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Prague, where he later served as an Assistant Professor of Political Science (2005-2011). Currently he serves as the Head of the Department of Political Science and Humanities at Metropolitan University Prague, where he has been teaching since 2006 and where he also served as a Vice-Rector for Student Affairs in 2007-2013. His professional specialization includes comparison of political systems of the Czech Republic, Slovakia (incl. former Czechoslovakia), Central European countries, selected Western European countries and USA. He co-authored publication Contact Point Embassies of NATO: New Dimension of Czech Foreign Policy in 2000-2005, co-edited publication Left in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1989-2009, and is one of the authors of monograph Czech Democracy after 1989.

jan.bures@mup.cz

marcel.arbeit@mup.cz

ivo.budil@mup.cz

ladislav.cabada@mup.cz

sini.eikonsalo@mup.cz

Education & Work Experience

• BA in literary studies and MA in narrative theory and textuality from the University of Tampere, Finland
• 4th-year Ph.D. candidate in English literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK

Involvement in Other Institutions

• 2016: research assistant at Masaryk University, Department of English and American Studies
• 2019: teaching assistant at Charles University, Department of North American Studies
• 2020: tutor at the University of Edinburgh, School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures

Expertise

• Contemporary American literature and culture, particularly 9/11 in literature, media, popular culture, and politics
• Postcolonial and cultural studies; cultural representation of religion and ethnicity
• Rhetorical theory of narrative; ethics is literature

Major Publications and Projects

• Eikonsalo, Sini (2017): "[S]ometimes America needs to be pushed": Amy Waldman's The Submission and the early American 9/11 novels. Brno studies in English, vol. 43, iss. 2, pp. [79]-94
• 2017-2018: Writer and article editor for Inciting Sparks, a peer-reviewed academic platform for research in arts and humanities
• 2017-2019: Article editor and peer-reviewer for FORUM, an academic journal in arts and culture
• 2018;2020: Reviewer for the James Tait Black Prize

jakub.charvat@mup.cz

wesley.johnson@mup.cz

Education & Work Experience

• B.A. Visual Culture, University of Brighton
• CertTESOL, Trinity College London
• DELTA, Cambridge University
• Certified Oral Examiner for Cambridge Exams – FCE

Expertise

• EAP, ESP, Cambridge English Learning Assessment, teacher training

alexander.jordan@mup.cz

Education & Work Experience

• 2015 – Ph.D in History and Civilisation, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
• 2011 – Master 1 in „Histoire et civilisations“, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France.
• 2010 – BA in History with a European Language, University College London, UK.

Involvement in Other Institutions

• 2019–22 – Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Göttingen, Germany.
• 2017–18 – Marie Curie COFUND Fellow, University of Erfurt, Germany.
• 2015–16 – Postdoctoral scholar, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Turin, Italy.

Expertise

• My reseach focuses on the life, works, and ideas of the great Victorian man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881).
• At Metropolitan University Prague, I teach courses on British history, the history of political thought, English literature, English language, and political science.

Major Publications and Projects

• Around twenty articles on various aspects of Carlyle’s life and thought, including in Victorian Literature and Culture, English Historical Review, Journal of British Studies, Historical Journal, Historical Research, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Scottish Historical Review, Scottish Literary Review, Journal of Victorian Culture, Journal of Scottish Philosophy, Labour History, Classical Receptions Journal, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Global Intellectual History, and Carlyle Studies Annual.

michal.klima@mup.cz

renata.pipalova@mup.cz

martin.prochazka@mup.cz

Education & Work Experience

• Professor of English, American and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Board of the Ph.D. program Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University, Prague

Involvement in Other Institutions

• founding editor of an academic journal Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture (Scopus, ERIH+, MLA)
• Trustee of the International Shakespeare Association (ISA)
• Member of the Steering Committee of the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures (IASSL)
• Member of the Advisory Board of the International Association of Byron Societies (IABS)
• Visiting Professor at the Universities of Kent and Porto

Major Publications and Projects

• Romanticism and Personality (1996)
• Transversals (2008)
• Ruins in the New World (2012)
• Romanticism and Romanticisms (2005) - co-author
• an editor of 17 collaborative books including Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances (2014)
• General Coordinator of the H2020, MSCA ITN project European Joint Doctorate, Migration and Modernity: Historical and Cultural Challenges (MOVES), http://projectmoves.eu
• Coordinator of the research program within the project of the Operational Programme Research, Development and Education (OP RDE) Creativity and Adaptability as the Foundations of the Success of Europe in the Interconnected World (KREAS) https://kreas.ff.cuni.cz/en/

pavel.pseja@mup.cz

EDUCATION & WORK EXPERIENCE

• Ph.D., Political Science, School of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, 2003
• Visiting Lecturer, University of Vienna, Institute of Political Science, Vienna, Austria, 3/2014 – 6/2014
• Commerzbank Professor in Political Science, Otto von Guericke Universität, Institut für Fremdsprachliche Philologien, European Studies, Magdeburg, Germany, 4/2005-12/2005

INVOLVEMENT IN OTHER INSTITUTIONS

• Assistant Professor, Department of IR and European Studies, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno (1999-2022)
• Expert at Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-government, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Council of Europe, Strassbourg ( since 3/2021)
• Member of National Pool of OSCE/EU International Electoral Observers, Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs (since 1/2017)
• Invited Country Expert for Varieties of Democracy Database www.v-dem.net, Gothenburg University, Sweden (since 11/2016)
• Chair/Member of the Board of Directors, Association for Democracy Assistance and Human Rights (DEMAS), Prague (9/2014-9/2020)
• Evaluator for the 7th Framework Program, Horizon2020, and Horizon Europe, European Commission, Brussels (since 3/2008)
• Lecturer, Department of Political Science and IR, CEVRO Institute, Prague (2006-2022)

EXPERTISE

• Democracy, democratization, regime changes, political parties, global politics

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS

• Pšeja, Pavel, Stanislav Balík, Vít Hloušek, Jan Holzer, Lubomír Kopeček, and Andrew Roberts. 2017. The Czech Politics: From the West to East and Back Again. Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers
• Pšeja, Pavel, Oldřich Krpec, Zdeněk Kříž, and Petr Suchý. 2015. Moc a zájmy v mezinárodním systému. Procesy, aktéři a problémy v mezinárodních vztazích (Power and Interests in the International System. Processes, Actors, and Issues in International Relations). Brno: Muni Press
• Pšeja, Pavel. 2005. Stranický systém České republiky. Politické strany a jejich vývoj 1989-1998 (Party System of the Czech Republic. Political Parties and their Development 1989-1998). Brno: CDK

ricardo.reboredo@mup.cz

Education & Work Experience

• 2020: PhD in Geography; Trinity College Dublin
• 2014: MA in Geography; University of Miami

Expertise

• Geopolitics
• Political Geography
• International Political Economy
• Global China
• African State Formation and Transformation

Major Publications and Projects

• Reboredo, R. (2021). Disaggregating Development: A Critical Analysis of Sino-African Megaprojects. Progress in Development Studies. Forthcoming.
• Carmody, P., Kragelund, P., and Reboredo, R. (2020). Africa's Shadow Rise: China and the Mirage of African Economic Development. Zed Books Ltd.
• Owusu, F., Reboredo, R., & Carmody, P. (2019). Trumping Development: Selective Delinking and Coercive Governmentality in US–Africa Relations. Africa Today, 66(1), 2-27.
• Reboredo, R. (2019). A panacea for development? Megaprojects and the construction of state legitimacy in post-apartheid South Africa. African Geographical Review, 38(3), 240-252.
• Brill, F., & Reboredo, R. (2019). Failed fantasies in a South African context: The case of Modderfontein, Johannesburg. Urban Forum. 30(2),171-189.

leona.rohrauer@mup.cz

Education & Work Experience

• 2015 – Ph.D., Faculty of Arts, Charles Univ. in Prague – in Philology – the English Language
• 2007 – MA (Mgr.), Faculty of Arts, Charles Univ. in Prague– in Philology – the English Language
• 1.9.2012-1.2.2013 Universität Wien, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Involvement in Other Institutions

• 2018 – Assistant professor (Department of Political Sciences and Anglophone Studies, Metropolitan University Prague)
• 2010 – 2015 Assistant professor (Dept. of English Studies, Faculty of Education., University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice)
• Member of The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)

Expertise

• Functional sentence perspective, lexicology, text linguistics
• Courses: Phonetics and Phonology 1, Phonetics and Phonology 2, Introduction to General Linguistics, Introductionto Theoretical Study of the English Language, Phonetic Analysis of Texts, Meaning and Form in English Lexicon

Major Publications and Projects

• ROHRAUER, L. (2019). Review. Pavel Dubec: Syntactic and FSP Aspects of the Existential Construction in Norwegian. AUC Philologica 4/2019.
• ROHRAUER, L. (2019). “FSP and the Essence of Text”. Linguistica Pragensia 29/2, 213-226.
• ROHRAUER, L. (2015). “Preliminary Notes on the Textual Functions of Presentation Sentences in Academic Prose and Fiction”. Czech and Slovak Linguistic Review 2015/1, Palacký University Olomouc, 57-71.
• ROHRAUER, L. (2013). “Syntactic Realizations of the Presentation Scale in Academic Prose and in Fiction.” Prague Studies in English 26, 145-157.