Research at the Department of English and American Studies

Main areas of research at the Department

1. New genres in professional and specialist discourse
2. American ethnic literatures and alternative concepts of American culture and society

The Department publishes a biannual peer-reviewed journal: the Ostrava Journal of English Philology.

Department staff - specialist areas of research interest

• Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Beneš, Ph.D.
  British literature; afro american literature, culture and history; afrofuturism
  
  
• doc. PhDr. Miroslav Černý, Ph.D.
  Documentation and revitalization of endangered languages; synchronic and diachronic sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology; medical discourse
  
  
• Mgr. Magdalena Hanusková
  Text linguistics, English as a lingua franca (ELF)
  
  
• Mgr. Andrea Holešová, Ph.D.
  American studies and the socio-cultural history of the USA; history of American literature with emphasis on contemporary American theatre and cinema
  
  
• Mgr. Christopher James Hopkinson, Ph.D.
  Translation studies; promotional discourse; socio-pragmatic aspects of promotional and advertising genres; impoliteness and linguistic aggression in online communication; English as a lingua franca (ELF)
  
  
• Mgr. Zuzana Hurtová, Ph.D.
  Functional syntax; communication strategies in fictional literature
  
  
• doc. PhDr. Stanislav Kolář, Dr.
  American Jewish literature; American Holocaust literature; American ethnic literatures; trauma theory in relation to literature; the topic of immigration in American literature
  
  
• doc. Mgr. Petr Kopecký, Ph.D.
  Literature and culture of the West Coast of the USA/Canada; eco-criticism; reception of American literature
  
  
• Mgr. Lenka Kopečková, Ph.D.
  Functional syntax; nonverbal communication, microanalysis of gestures and speech
  
  
• Mgr. Dominika Beneš Kováčová, Ph.D.
  language of social media, digital discourse, multimodality
  
  
• dr hab. Christian Aaron Lewandowski
  American literature, Cultural Studies, history of the USA, American Indians of the Progressive era
  
  
• Mgr. Renáta Tomášková, Dr.
  Text analysis and translation; communication strategies in various discourse types; genre analysis in institutional discourse
  
  
• Mgr. Gabriela Zapletalová, Ph.D.
  Text linguistics; (hyper)syntax and text structure in academic discourse; contrastive analysis of Czech and English academic texts
  
  

Updated: 12. 02. 2024