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Jakub Češka serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Literature at Charles University's Faculty of Humanities, where he has maintained continuous faculty appointments since 2001, progressing from Lecturer (2001–2005) to Assistant Professor (2005–2014) and Associate Professor (2014–present).
Education:
- 2015: Habilitation (docent) in Theory of Literature, Palacký University, Olomouc
- 2004: Ph.D. in Czech Literature and Literary Theory, Charles University
- 1998: Mgr. in Czech Literature, Charles University
His research centers on literary theory and narratology, with specialized expertise in 20th-century Czech literature. He conducts critical analyses of Milan Kundera's narrative structures, Bohumil Hrabal's prose techniques, and Roland Barthes' semiotic frameworks, exploring intersections between metaphor theory, memory construction, and political discourse in post-totalitarian contexts.
His 2012–2016 publications reveal consistent thematic trajectories: investigations into metaphor-metonymy tensions in Kundera's poetics (2016), narrative variability in Hrabal's works (2016), and literature's role in legitimizing political power (2015). These studies collectively examine how fiction shapes human cognition and social structures, particularly through mechanisms like literary testimony and ironic displacement.
Scientific Awards: None documented in source materials.
No information is provided regarding graduate student supervision, research grants, or collaborative laboratory teams. His professional activities include editorial board membership for Česká literatura and Bohemica Olomucensia, reflecting scholarly engagement with Czech literary criticism.
