doc. Ondřej Pilný, PhD
Education:
2008
2001
1992 - 1993
1989-1995
Habilitation (doc.) in English and American Literature, Charles University.
PhD in English (Charles University)
Visiting student at Trinity College, Dublin (Irish Literature, Folklore and
Language; English Literature; Philosophy; Aesthetics)
M.A. in English (Charles University)
Positions and Appointments:
since 2013
Vice-chairperson for Europe, the International Association for the Study
of Irish Literatures
since 2013
Vice-president, the European Federation of Associations and Centres of
Irish Studies
2012
Visiting Fellow at The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and
Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway
since 2011
Deputy Chair, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures,
Charles University
2009-2011
Chair, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles
University
since 2008
Associate Professor (docent) of English and American Literature, Charles
University
since 2002
Director of the Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University
2000-2002
Director of the Irish Studies Programme, Charles University
since 1997
Lecturer in Modern Literature, Drama and Theory, Anglo-American
College/Anglo-American University, Prague (since 2009 Senior Lecturer)
1996-2008
Senior Lecturer in Irish Literature and Literary Theory, Charles University
since 1995
Executive editor, Litteraria Pragensia (Studies in Literature and Culture)
1994 - 1996
External lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies,
Charles University
since 1990
Translator and interpreter in a variety of areas
Publications:
Books:
Pilný, Ondřej. Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama. Praha: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006
Procházka, Martin, Ondřej Pilný, eds. Prague English Studies and the Transformation of Philologies.
Praha: Karolinum Press, 2012.
Pilný, Ondřej, ed. John Millington Synge: Hrdina západu. Dramata a próza. Přel. Daniela Furthnerová,
Martin Hilský, Mariana Housková, Miloš Komanec, Ondřej Pilný, Hana Zahradníková. Praha:
Fraktály, 2006 (annotated edition)
Mahony, Christina Hunt, et al., eds. The Future of Irish Studies: Report of the Irish Forum. Praha: Irish
Forum and Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University Prague, 2006 (co-editor)
Pilný, Ondřej and Wallace, Clare, eds. Global Ireland: Irish Literatures in the New Millennium. Praha:
Litteraria Pragensia, 2005
Procházka, Martin and Pilný, Ondřej, eds. Time Refigured: Myths, Foundation Texts and Imagined
Communities. Praha: Litterraria Pragensia, 2005
Armand, Louis and Pilný, Ondřej, eds. Petr Škrabánek, Night Joyce of a Thousand Tiers: Studies in
Finnegans Wake. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2002
Edited Issues of Academic Journals:
Murphy, Neil, Keith Hopper and Ondřej Pilný. “Neglected Irish Fiction.” Litteraria Pragensia
22.44 (2012). 147 pp.
Pilný, Ondřej and Armand, Louis. “Samuel Beckett: Textual Genesis and Reception.” Litteraria
Pragensia, 17.33 (2007)
Pilný, Ondřej. “From Brooke to Black Pastoral: Six Studies in Irish Literature and Culture.”
Litteraria Pragensia, 10.20 (2000)
Selected Book Chapters:
“Jan Grossman, Prague Structuralism, and the Grotesque.” Martin Procházka, Ondřej Pilný
(eds.), Prague English Studies and the Transformation of Philologies. Praha: Karolinum Press, 2012.
184-97.
“Pop Music and Politics in Drama: Stewart Parker and Tom Stoppard.” Moravian Journal of
Literature and Film 3.2 (Spring 2012): 63-72.
“Whose Ethics? Which Genre? – Irish Drama and the Terminal Days of the Celtic Tiger.” Mark
Berninger and Bernhard Reitz (eds.), Ethical Debates in Contemporary Theatre and Drama. Trier:
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2012. 195-210.
„Samuel Beckett a ‘postmoderní situace.’“ Miroslav Petříček (ed.), Moderní svět v zrcadle literatury a
filosofie. Praha: Hermann a synové, 2011. 192-197.
“The Translator’s Playwright: Karel Mušek and J.M. Synge.” Patrick Lonergan (ed.), Synge and His
Influences. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2011. 153-180, 295-99.
Pilný, Ondřej. “‘Suitably Relevant’”: Irish Drama and Theatre in the Czech Republic, 2000-2007”.
In: Mária Kurdi, ed. Literary and Cultural Relations: Ireland, Hungary, and Central and Eastern
Europe. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2009.
Wallace, Clare, Pilný, Ondřej. “Home Places: Irish Drama since 1990.” In: Scott Brewster and
Michael Parker, eds., Irish Literature since 1990: Diverse Voices. Manchester and New York:
Manchester University Press, 2009.
Pilný, Ondřej. “‘One Glimpse of that Wellhead’: Revelations of the Stair.“ In: Martin Procházka,
Jan Čermák, eds., Shakespeare between the Middle Ages and Modernism. Praha: FFUK, 2008.
Pilný, Ondřej. “Grotesque Entertainment: The Pillowman as Puppet Theatre.” In: Chambers, Lilian
and Jordan, Eamonn, eds. The Theatre of Martin McDonagh: A World of Savage Stories. Dublin:
Carysfort Press, 2006.
Selected Articles:
“Fighting Garradrimna: Brinsley MacNamara’s The Various Lives of Marcus Igoe.” Litteraria Pragensia
22.44 (2012): 38-46.
“This Is Not a Green Wave: Issues of Representation in Jack B. Yeats’s Play In Sand”, Nordic Irish
Studies, 11.1 (2012), Special Issue: The Island and the Arts: 153-59.
Pilný, Ondřej. “My Kingdom for a Pun: Myles na gCopaleen, Erwin Schrödinger and The Third
Policeman in Improbable Frequency.” Irish Theatre International, 1.1 (2008): 38-52.
Pilný, Ondřej. “A ‘Home of Ancient Idealism’? W.B. Yeats and the Irish Dramatic Movement.”
Litteraria Pragensia, 16.31 (2006): 3-20.
Pilný, Ondřej. “Concepts of Irony.” Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Philologica 2005, vol. 2 (Prague
Studies in English, 2006), vol. 24, 141-156.
Pilný, Ondřej. “Martin McDonagh: Parody? Satire? Complacency?” Irish Studies Review, 12.2
(2004): 225-232.
Translations
include plays by J.M. Synge, Brian Friel, Martin McDonagh and Enda Walsh, and fiction by Flann
O’Brien, Samuel Beckett and Bernard MacLaverty.