Research projects
Current research projects:
I.
Challenges of Access to Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age, akronym: CULT-HERITAGE (1/2026 - 12/2028, OP Jan Amos Komenský 2021-2027, CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008719, principal investigator: Pavel Zahrádka), role: research group leader
https://cirg.upol.cz/projekt/problemy-pristupu-ke-kulturnimu-dedictvi-v-digitalni-dobe/
II.
How to Become a Good Citizen: The Educational Influence of Youth Literature in the Czech National Revival (1/2026 - 12/2028, GA ČR 26-21609S, principal investigator: Karsten Rinas), role: research team member
Completed research projects:
Research into representations of intercultural contacts in Czech travelogue texts from the Mediterranean up to 1918, using digital humanities; akronym: DIGEOCAT & Lib. (12/2022 - 12/2025, Cooperation partnership in higher education Erasmus+, 2022-1-CZ01-KA220-HED-000085765), principal investigator
Applicant organisation: Palacký University Olomouc (Faculty of Arts / Faculty of Science)
Partner organisations: Universita degli studi di Udine, Univesidad de Granada, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně
The main objective of the project is to create an innovative digital humanities tool, specifically a digital library of travelogue texts accessible online, which will be interactively connected with a digital multi-thematic atlas via themes focusing on intercultural contact.
Czech adaptations of Robinson Crusoe and their role in Czech culture and society since the end of the 18th century (4/2020-6/2023, GA ČR 20-03868S), principal investigator
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) was an important milestone in the development of European culture, which influenced the formation of the identity of modern Western civilisation. Since the Czech readership became acquainted with the novel at the end of the 18th century, it has been published in dozens of different adaptations; the exact translation was published only in 1920. These adaptations have transformed Defoe's story according to the social norms and values of the respective periods, moving away from the British colonial culture of Defoe's time, and taking into consideration the publishing aims and targeted readership. Adaptations differ at both the narrative and discoursive level and, in this way, they reflect changes in the values of Czech society and culture since the 19th century. Informed by cultural narratology, our intention is to examine Czech adaptations of the novel and their role within the context of Czech culture.
Main accomplished scientific projects:
2025 IGA grant project (IGA_FF_2025_042) Czech Language and Its Worlds: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Textual Research in the 21st Century, research group leader
2023 IGA grant project (IGA_FF_2023_040) Intersections of Theoretical-Methodological Approaches in Contemporary Czech Studies, research group leader
2022 IGA grant project (IGA_FF_2022_ 038) Czech Studies - From Tradition to Digitalisation (from Past to Present), research group leader
2021 IGA grant project (IGA_FF_2021_ 027) Characteristics of Contemporary Czech Studies, research group leader
2020 IGA grant project (IGA_FF_2020_ 021)
Czech Studies: Literary nad Linguistic Overlaps and Interpretations, research team member
2019 IGA grant project (IGA_FF_2019_ 013) Czech Studies - Challenges and Issues in Contemporary Humanities, research team member
2018-21 ESF grant project Learning Through Story (CZ.02.3.68/0.0/0.0/16_032/0008094), expert
2017 IGA grant project (IGA_FF_2017_ 037)
Implementation of New Methods and Knowledge in Linguistic and Literary Theory Research, research team member
2012-15 ESF grant project Literature and Film without Frontiers: dislocation and relocation in pluralist space (CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0150), research team member
2012 IGA grant project (FF_2012_ 432100681) Novels by Josef Galík, principal investigator
2009-12 ESF grant project Czech Studies: a field of study for the third millennium
(CZ.1.07/2.2.00/07.0020), research group leader