Post-Doctoral Fellowships

Mgr. Alexandra Holubowicz, Ph.D. – Department of English Language and Literature, 03/2024 - 12/2026

Aleksandra Hołubowicz earned her doctoral degree in literary studies at Gdansk University, Poland. Her dissertation was published in 2023 as A Comparative Study of Selected Texts by Contemporary US Latina/Chicana and Polish Women Writers by P. Lang. She received her MA in American Studies, University of Warsaw, and BA in English Philology: Teaching English as a Second Language also in Gdansk. For many years she worked as a teacher of English and Civics in Poland at different types of schools. She also taught American literature at Gdansk University and was also involved in various educational projects concerned with literature and language offered to the general public. She came to the Czech Republic for a CEEPUS exchange to work on her PhD and between 2018-2024 she worked as an English teacher at Charles University, Faculty of Arts. Her current postdoctoral project at Faculty of Education of UHK focuses on transformative pedagogy and how it can be applied while teaching language and literature.

Mgr. Mikuláš Zvánovec, Ph.D. – Department of Studies in Culture and Religion, 03/2024 - 02/2026

Mikuláš Zvánovec graduated from the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. His research work deals with the Czech modern history, especially the history of Czech-German and Czech-Austrian relations, nationalism and civil society in the 19. and the 20. century. He received scholarships in Vienna, Munich and Düsseldorf and worked as a research team member e.g. at the Free University in Berlin or at the J.A. Comenius National Museum and Library in Prague. His dissertation, which compares Czech German civil activities in the field of national schooling in Bohemia before the First World War, was published under the title Der nationale Schulkampf in Böhmen (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021). Mikuláš Zvánovec is continuing his work at the University of Hradec Králové with his postdoctoral research on the national civil structures which active in the education system of the interwar Czechoslovakia. He is secretary of the Czech Bernard Bolzano Society in Prague and a passionate tourist guide in the area of Bohemian Woods (Šumava, Novohradské hory).

Mgr. et Mgr. Petr Mikoška, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (Department of Pedagogy and Psychology - 08/2021 - 12/2023)

Petr Mikoška is a philosopher and psychologist. Within his research activities at the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology of the Faculty of Education, UHK, he focuses on topics in the field of psychotherapy, clinical psychology and pedagogy. He also works as a researcher at the Olomouc University Social Health Institute, where he leads an experimental project verifying the effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Therapy. He completed psychotherapeutic training in the Person-Centered Approach (PCA Institute Prague)

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PaedDr. Lenka Odehnalová, Ph.D. (Department of Russian Language and Literature - 09/2021 - 12/2023)

Lenka Odehnalová is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University where she defended her dissertation entitled "Writer's Diary by Dostoevsky in the Contexts and Confrontations. Genres – Themes – Motifs – Reception" in 2021. Within the postdoctoral study, she is concerned with contemporary Russian literature. Her research also focuses on the personality and work of F. M. Dostoevsky as well as autobiographical genres in Slavic literatures. She simultaneously works as an executive editor of the literary scientific journal Novaja russitika.

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Mgr. Bc. Miloš Zapletal, Ph.D.  (Music Department - 09/2021 - 12/2023)

Miloš Zapletal is a musicologist, cultural historian and aesthetician. He deals with the history of Czech musical culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, aesthetics, museology and methodology of the humanities. He studied musicology (with Prof. Miloš Štědron among others) and film studies at the Masaryk University in Brno, where he also completed his PhD studies in 2017. From 2015 to 2018, he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (AV ČR), and since 2018, he has been an assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the Silesian University in Opava. He worked at the Faculty of Education of the University of Hradec Králové in 2018–2021 as an assistant professor, and since 2021, he has been a postdoctoral researcher there. As a postdoctoral fellow, he has been conducting a research project focused on the reception of Leoš Janáček and his music in the 1870s and 80s, particularly in the context of the late National Revival in Moravia. Miloš Zapletal lives with his family in Opava, he also likes to stay in the Beskydy mountains. He is a Moravian patriot (in terms Moravia as a cultural region and a spiritual space).

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