Research interests
Transnational Approaches and Translation; Cold War Cultures; Critical Race Theory; Exile and Immigration; Gender and Feminisms
Education
| 2016-2020 | PhD in English and American Literature, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University |
| 2014-2016 | MA in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University |
| 2010-2014 | BA in English and American Studies and German for Intercultural Communication, Charles University |
| International Fellowships | |
| 2023 | The Eccles Centre for American Studies – The British Library, Library Grant, Visiting Fellow |
| 2022 | John F. Kennedy Library Grant, FU Berlin (Visiting Researcher) |
| 2022 | Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences, Northumbria University Newcastle (Visiting Researcher, Anglo-Czech Fund Scholarship) |
| 2021 | Institute for Human Sciences Vienna (Jan Patočka Junior Fellow) |
| 2017-2018 | Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University (Fulbright-Masaryk Fellow) |
| 2017 | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Oxford University (Visiting Researcher, EUROPAEUM scholarship) |
| 2016 | John F. Kennedy Institute of North American Studies, FU Berlin (Visiting Researcher, KAAD scholarship) |
| 2013 | Edinburgh Napier University (Erasmus+) |
Employment
| since 2022 | Institute of Czech Literature CAS: Postdoctoral researcher |
| since 2021 | Department of English Language and Literature, Pedagogical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové: Assistant Professor |
| 2019-2020 | CEFRES: French Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences Prague (PhD Fellow) |
| 2014-2020 | Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies, Czech Technical University; Amazon English-Czech High School; Jazykoffka; Jabok: Academy of Social Work and Theology: Instructor of English, Translation and Academic Writing |
Awards
| 2022 | Honorable Mention at the Charles Bernheimer Prize for an Outstanding Dissertation in Comparative Literature, American Comparative Literature Association |
| 2021 | Jan Palach Prize for Outstanding Research (PhD thesis) |
| 2021 | Martin Hilský Award for Best PhD Thesis Faculty of Arts, Charles University |
| 2016 | Mathesius Award for Outstanding MA Thesis |
Selected bibliography (ASEP)
Book chapters
Schormová, F. 2024. Becoming the White Otter: Constructing Whiteness between Canada and Czechoslovakia. In: Runtić, S. – Marešová, J. – Kolinská, K. (eds.), (Un)Following in Winnetou’s Footsteps. Singapore, Springer, 201-218. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-7421-4_9
Schormová, F. 2023. Ozvěny Kryštofa Kolumba v české poezii 20. století. In: Borozan, V. (ed.), Naťuknout špičku vejce: Kolumbus jindy a dnes. Hradec Králové, Galerie moderního umění v Hradci Králové, 77-92.
Articles
Schormová, F. 2023. Tractors and Translators. Langston Hughes in Cold War Czechoslovakia. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 138(3), 519-533. DOI: 10.1632/S0030812923000445