Mgr. et Mgr. Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová, PhD

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.

Selected English publications:

• "Prospects of Anzaldúan Thought for a Czech Future" in SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 37, No. 1, Fall2011, pp. 23-29.

• "Woman Killing and Adoption in Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders" in Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No. 3, 2019, pp. 76-92.

• "A Contextual Interpretation of This Bridge Called My Back: Nationalism, Androcentrism and the Means of Cultural Representation" in Camino Real. Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas, Vol. 10, No. 13, 2018, pp. 27-45.

• "Queering ang Gendering Aztlán: Anzaldúa's Feminist Reshaping of the Chicana/o Nation in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" in Elbert Decker, Jessica, Winchock Dylan (eds.), Borderlands and Liminal Subjects: Transgressing the Limits in Philosophy and Literature. New York, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2017, pp. 145-166.

• "On Border and On Murder: Juárez Femi(ni)cides" in Central European Journal of International and Security Studies; Vol.3, 2015, pp. 154-174.

 

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