Leader of the research field Communist and Post-Communist Times in Central Europe and coordinator of the project „Border Communities: Microstudies on Everyday Life, Politics and Memory in European Societies From 1945 to the Present“

Research interests:

•  Gender and social change
•  Cultural representations of gender
•  Censorship
•  Narrative research

 

Education:

• 2008: Habilitation in Literature, Szeged University, Hungary
• 2002: Ph.D., English Department, Lancaster University, UK
• 1992: M.A. in Contemporary Literary Studies, English Department, Lancaster University, UK
• 1990: „Magistra“ (Sports Science and Physical Education, English), Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

 

Academic Appointments:

• since 2013: Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic
• 2009-2011: Associate Professor, Dept. of Gender Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2008-2009: Associate Professor in Gender Studies, Dept. of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
• 2004-2008: Assistant Professor in Gender Studies, Dept. of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
• 1995-2006: Assistant Professor in English Literature and Gender Studies, Dept. of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities (until 2001 Institute of Modern Languages), University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
• 1999-2000: Visiting Lecturer, Institute of English and American Studies, Szeged University, Hungary

 

Fellowships and Research Grants:

• 2011: CRASSH Visiting Fellowship, University of Cambridge UK (unable to accept due to another commitment)
• 2009-2011: GAČR (Czech Science Foundation) for the project Transformation of Gender Culture in Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989. Senior researcher
• 2008-2009: FP7 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (European Commission) for the project Academic Censorship under State Socialism: Czech Republic and Hungary. Tenable at Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, Hungary
• 2004: Visiting Scholar, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
• 2004: Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh
• 2003-2004: GAČR (Czech Science Foundation) for the project Self-censorship and „text coding“ of academic texts during Normalisation, 1968-1989. Principal investigator
• 1999-2000: Research Support Scheme Grant awarded by the Open Society Support Foundation
• 1998-1999: Fellowship, Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, Hungary
• 1996-1998: Doctoral Student Support Scholarship, CEU Foundation, Budapest, Hungary

 

Selected Publications

Books

• 2012 (in print): Proměny genderové kultury v české společnosti, 1948-1989 [Transformation of Gender Culture in Czech Society, 1948-1989]. Praha: Slon. Co-editor with Hana Havelková
• 2011: Tvrdošíjnost myšlenky: od feministické kriminologie k teorii genderu (Publikace na počest Prof. Gerlindy Šmausové) [The insistence of thought; from feminist criminology to gender theory (A collection in honour of Prof. Gerlinda Šmaus]. Praha: Slon. Editor and contributor. 243 pp. ISBN 978-80-7419-043-8
• 2007: Ženská literární tradice a hledání identit: antologie angloamerické feministické literární teorie [Women’s Literary Tradition and the Search for Identities: An Anthology of Anglo-American Feminist Literary Theory]. Praha: Slon. Editor. ISBN: 80-86429-69-5
• 2004: with Andrea Koudelková, under the name Indruchová, Slovník odborných výrazů: atletika, česko anglický-anglicko český [Czech-English and English-Czech dictionary of track and field]. Praha: Karolinum, 109 pp. ISBN 80-246-0881-2.
• 2002: Discourses of Gender in Pre-and Post-1989 Czech Culture, Scientific Papers of the University of Pardubice, Series C, Supplement 4, Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice. 222 pp. ISSN: 1213 3485, ISBN: 80-7194-434-3
• 1998: Dívčí válka s ideologií: klasické texty angloamerického feministického myšlení. [Girls' war against ideology: classics of Anglo-American feminist thought.] Editor. Prague: Slon

Book in progress: Academic Publishing and Censorship in Late State-Socialism

 

Guest Editor

• 2008: Kontext: časopis pro gender a vědění [Journal for Gender and Knowing] Feminismus v akademii: aktivismus v akademii—angažovanost feministického výzkumu—jazyk rovných příležitostí [Feminism in academia: activism in academia—commitment in feminist research—the language of equal opportunities]. Published by the Czech Academy of Sciences. No. 1. Together with Kateřina Šaldová. Available at: http://www.zenyaveda.cz/html/index.php?s1=1&s2=3&s3=16&s4=3&id=50

 

Articles and Book Chapters

• 2012: Transforming and Emerging: Discourses of Gender in the Czech Culture of the Transition Period. In: Iain MacRury, ed., Advertising (4 vols,), vol 3: Analysing Advertisements: Texts, Audiences and Ways of Reading. Routledge. Art. No. 50. ISBN: 978-0-415-57711-3
• 2012: The Beauty and the Loser: Cultural Representations of Gender in Late State Socialism. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 37, 2 (Winter): 357-383. ISSN: 00979740, E-ISSN: 15456943. Russian translation in Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie / The New Literary Observer (Moscow), 117 (5/2012): 53-75. ISSN: 0869-6365
• 2010: The Limits of Thought?: The Regulatory Framework of Social Sciences and Humanities in Czechoslovakia (1968–1989). In 1948 and 1968–Dramatic Milestones in Czech and Slovak History, ed. by Laura Cashman. Routledge. Pp. 123-138. ISBN: 978-0-415-49990-3
• 2008: The Limits of Thought?: Regulatory Framework of Social Sciences and Humanities in Czechoslovakia (1968-1989), Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 60,10: Pp. 1767-1782
• 2007: Doklad ili razkaz? Kachestveno izsledvane na cenzurata v socialnite nauki v Chehiia, 1968-1989 godina [Reporting or Story-telling?: Qualitative Research on Censorship in Czech Social Sciences, 1968-89]. Sociologicheski Problemi/ Sociological Problems, Sociology and Interdisciplinary Knowledge, no. 1-2: 288-301. Sofia: Institute of Sociology Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 0324-1572. (In Bulgarian)
• 2006: The Void of Acceptable Masculinity During Czech State Socialism: The Case of Radek John's Memento. Men and Masculinities 8, 4: Pp. 428-50. ISSN: 1097-184X
• 2006: Gender, feminismus a literatura I, and Gender, feminismus a literatura II. In: Gender a společnost: Vysokoškolská učebnice pro nesociologické směry magisterských a bakalářských studií [Gender and Society: a textbook for non-sociologists in BA and MA programmes], ed. by Jana Valdrová. Ústí nad Labem: Pedagogická fakulta Univerzity Jana Evangelisty Purkyně. Pp. 113–34. ISBN 80-7044-808-3
• 2005: From Raisa to Hillary: Gender Discourse in Political Speeches and Selected News Coverage of the Perestroika and Early Transition Years. In: Medial Welten in Tschechien nach 1989: Genderprojektionen und Codes des Plebejismus, ed. by Jirina van Leeuwen-Turnovcova and Nicole Richter. Specimina Philologiae Slavicae, vol.142. München. Pp. 57-71. ISBN 3-87690-896-5. pdf download (230 KB)
• 2005: The Imperative of Moral Integrity in Tereza Boučková’s Indian Run. In: Women's Voices in Postcommunist Eastern Europe: vol 1, Rewriting Histories, ed. by Maria-Sabina Draga-Alexandru, Madalina Nicolaescu and Helen Smith. Bucuresti: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti. Pp. 71-88. ISBN: 973-737-055-4
• 2004: Transforming and Emerging: Discourses of Gender in the Czech Culture of the Transition Period. In: Representing Gender in Cultures, ed. by Elżbieta H. Oleksy and Joanna Rydzewska. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Pp. 107-117. ISBN: 3-631-50667-8
• 2004: Moška telesa, ki se upirajo Zahodu in preteklosti: Telo in moškost v oglasih na Češkem. [Male Bodies Resisting the West and the Past: Body and Masculinity in Advertising in the Czech Republic.] Apokalipsa: Revija za preboj v živo kulturo. Into the Slovenian trans. by Marcello Potocco. Pp. 78-80, April-June: Pp. 76-93. ISSN: 1318-3680.
• 2003: The Ideology of the Genderless Sporting Body: Reflections on the Czech State-Socialist Concept of Physical Culture. In: Indeterminate Bodies, ed. by Naomi Segal, Roger Cook and Lib Taylor. Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 48-66. ISBN: 0333949692. pdf download (1 MB)
• 2002: Genderově bezpříznakový diskurs?: Tělo v teorii tělesné kultury [Gender-neutral discourse?: The body in the theory of physical culture], Filosofický časopis 50, 6: 971-89. ISSN: 0015-1831
• 2002: The 'Inner' Body in Physical Culture: Hidden theoretical possibilities in Czech state-socialist textbooks. Tidskrift för kulturstudier (Journal of Cultural Studies) 5: Pp. 69-79.
• 2000: Male Bodies Resisting the West and the Past: Body and Masculinity in Advertising in the Czech Republic. East Central Europe-L'Europe du Centre-Est: Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, 27, 2: Pp. 21-35. pdf download (3.6 MB)
• 1995 under the name Indruchová: Žena na ulici: (Stereo)typické reprezentace žen v současné velkoplošné reklamě v České republice. [Women on the street: (stereo)typical representations of women in billboard advertising in the Czech Republic]. Sociologický časopis 31, 1: Pp. 85-104.