Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová
Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová completed her PhD in English Philology at Charles University in 2017 with a dissertation on "Chicana Literature: A Feminist Perspective of Gloria Anzaldúa's Identity Politics". She received the Martin Hilský Award for an outstanding dissertation.
Main research interests:
Feminist literary theory, gender in literature, postcolonial and decolonial studies, contemporary US ethnic and regional literature, ChicanX literature, LatinX literature, border theory, cultural studies
Guest editor of
Postcolonial and Decolonial Thought in Feminism, a special issue of Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2017, with Blanka Knotková-Čapková. Issue Editorial: "Postcolonial and Decolonial Thought in Feminism and Analyses of Othering Representations" in Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2017, pp. 2-15 with Blanka Knotková-Čapková.
Funding/Grants:
| 2015 | Co-recipient | Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Specific University Research Project no. 26023702 Gender v textu a obraznosti; with Blanka Knotková Čapková |
| 2011-2013 | Research group member | Charles University Grant Agency Grant no. 432011, Texty v oběhu: reprezentace, ideologie, cirkulace; with Richard Müller, Josef Šebek, Jan Matonoha and Tomáš Chudý |
| 2011 | Research Group Member | Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Specific University Research Project no. 263701 Gender v interdisciplinární perspektivě; with Blanka Knotková Čapková et. al. |
| 2010 | Research group member | Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Specific University Research Project Gender jako metodologická kategorie literárních analýz; with Blanka Knotková Čapková and Jan Matonoha |
| 2009 - 2011 | Co-recipient | Charles University Grant Agency Grant no. 259210 Anthology of American Regionalist Women's Writing: Southern and Chicana Literature; with Dagmar Pegues |
| 2008 | Visiting Researcher | Sasakawa Foundation, University of Texas, Austin, USA |
Elisabeth-List-Fellowship Projekt: Everyday Creativity in (Post)Socialism: Theoretical and Methodological Scoping