QUALIFICATIONS

2023    Ph.D., Modern History, Charles University, Prague
2017    Mgr., Western European Studies, Charles University, Prague
2014    Bc., International Area Studies, Charles University, Prague

PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS

Anglophilia, Imagology, Second World War, Cold War, National Identity, History from Below, Cultural History, Czechoslovakia, Transnational History, East-West Relations

RESEARCH PROFILE

My research explores Anglophilia as a significant affirmative ideology and its role in the socio-cultural and political processes of modern history. I focus on the example of Czech affirmative Othering of Britain during the tumultuous 1940s, a period when the national community faced its greatest existential crisis. Among the key phenomena I examine is the flexibility of Anglophilia as a cultural construct, which allows those engaging in the discourse to rationalize a wide range of ideological positions—whether liberalism, nationalism, or socialism. Currently, I am working on my first book, which will delve deeply into this topic.

In addition, I am preparing my second project, Domesticity as the Unforeseen Hero of the 1960s: Forsyte’s Traveling across the Iron Curtain. It examines domesticity as a transnational value during the late 1960s and early 1970s and reconstructs the perceptions and intuitions of The Forsyte Saga viewers regarding social and gender norms.