The Zdeněk Pešat Fellowship (hereinafter the ‘ZPF’) takes its name from an outstanding literary historian and former director of the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences (hereinafter the ‘ICL’). It is granted from funds of the ICL.
The Fellowship is targeted at researchers working abroad in the areas of literature, literary biography, literary bibliography, literary theory and/or history in the Czech lands. The ZPF is preferably awarded to applicants whose projects align with research being pursued at the ICL.
The visiting fellowship is intended to finance the scholar’s stay for a maximum of four weeks at the ICL’s department in Prague or Brno. The ZPF aims to support the implementation of already developed research projects (e. g. books, studies, editions, doctoral theses) and to enhance cooperation with partners in the Czech Literary Studies Consortium. There is therefore no need to develop a specific project for the application.
The ICL provides the ZPF holder with financial support of up to 50,000 CZK to cover accommodation, food and other costs related to the visiting researcher’s academic programme of the four weeks stay at the ICL’s department in Prague or Brno (or a pro rata share of this amount for stays of less than four weeks). Transport to/from the Czech Republic, health insurance and all other costs related to the stay in the Czech Republic are covered by the foreign researcher.
The ICL invites those interested in this form of study stay to consult the topic of their project and other details of the application well in advance with the ICL Deputy Director for International Cooperation, Mag. Dr. Michael Wögerbauer, zamini@ucl.cas.cz.
