Mgr. Jiří Šalamoun, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Mgr. Jiří Šalamoun, Ph.D.

Department

• Department of English Language and Literature,
  Faculty of Education,
  Masaryk University
  

Employment - Position

• Head of the Department

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2009 – 2016: Ph.D. in Literaterus in English, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
• 2010 – 2012: Master's degree in Upper Secondary School Teacher Education in English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
• 2007 – 2009: Master's degree in English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
• 2003 – 2007: Dual Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature and History of Arts, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

Employment

• 2014-present: Dept of English Language
• and Literature, Faculty of Education, MU
• 2012-2014: MUNI Language Centre
• 2010-2012: Park Language School
• 2006-2010: freelance ELT teacher

Teaching Activities

• contemporary British and American literature

Projects and grants

• 2020: Digital Humanities in the Classroom (MUNI/FR/1492/2019), Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University
• 2011: Creation of the course Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures (FRVS/1865/2011), Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.
• 2010: Researcher of the internal project Study of the Reception of Subversive Novels by Thomas King and Ishamel Reed at the John F. Kennedy Institute in Berlin (MUNI/21/SAL/2010), Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.

Internship

• 17. 1. - 11. 2. 2013: Yale University, USA.
• 22. - 28. 8. 2010: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

University Activities

• Board member of the following study programs:
• English Language for Education
• Lower Secondary School English Language Teacher Training

Major Publications

• ŠALAMOUN, Jiří. Updating the Legacy of the Black Arts Movement and Staying Relevant: Reconnecting with Africa in Ishmael Reed's Japanese by Spring. In Tru Leverette. With Fists Raised : Radical Art, Contemporary Activism, and the Iconoclasm of the Black Arts Movement. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021, s. 249-268. ISBN 978-1-80085-977-7. URL info
• ŠALAMOUN, Jiří. The Internet as Myth in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge. In The 11th Brno CZASE Conference: Breaking the Boundaries. 2020. info
• ŠALAMOUN, Jiří. Sacrificing Self for Surveillance Capitalism: Rating, Sharing, and Selling Secrets in Eggers’ Circle and Shteyngart’s Super, Sad, True Love. In 22nd International Colloquium of American Studies organized by the Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies & the Department of English and American Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia. 2019. URL info
• ŠALAMOUN, Jiří. Současná americká literatura v českých překladech (pro Moravskou zemskou knihovnu v Brně). 2019. URL info
• ŠALAMOUN, Jiří. The Satire of Ishmael Reed. 1. vyd. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2019, 115 s. Spisy Filozofické fakulty Masarykoy univerzity ; 493. ISBN 978-80-210-9366-9. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-9367-2019. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
• ŠALAMOUN, Jiří. "The New Irony of Ishmael Reed against the New Racism of Postracial America". In Sämi Ludwig. American Multiculturalism in Context Views from at Home and Abroad. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, s. 177-188. ISBN 978-1-4438-1691-5. URL info
• ŠALAMOUN, Jiří. Americký Prospero bez šťastného konce? Proč Philip Roth není držitelem Nobelovy ceny za literaturu. Brno: HOST, 2015, s. 40-43. 04/2015. ISSN 1211-9938. info
• ŠALAMOUN, Jiří. Writing for Multiculturalism : Argument-based Satire of Ishmael Reed against the New Racism. In American Multiculturalism in Context, Université de Haute Alsace, 26.-28. 3. 2015, Mulhouse, France. 2015. info
• ŠALAMOUN, Jiří. From Deflection to Deconstruction : The Transformation of Ishmael Reed's Satire in Juice! In Metcalf, Josephine, Spaulding, Carina. African American Culture and Society After Rodney King : Provocations and Protests, Progression and 'Post-Racialism'. 1. ed. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015, s. 49-63. ISBN 978-1-4724-5539-0. URL info
• ŠALAMOUN, Jiří. Ishmael Reed's Juice! as a Critique of the Post-race Dream. In The African American Experience Since 1992, University of Hull. 2013. URL info
• ŠALAMOUN, Jiří. Hladová hostina. Brno: HOST, 2013, 2 s. 8. ISSN 1211-9938. URL info
• ŠALAMOUN, Jiří. Where did all the Water Come from? How Water Crosses Boundaries in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water. In Weaving New Perspectives Together: Some Reflections on Literary Studies. 1st ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012, s. 203-217. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-3911-2. Cambridge Scholars Publishing info
• ŠALAMOUN, Jiří. Mixing the High and the Low in Ishmael Reed's Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down: the Use of the Western Genre as a Medium for Serious Content. In The Marginalised mainstream : literature, culture and popularity, University of London, 8-9 November 2012. 2012. URL info
• ŠALAMOUN, Jiří. Erasing the Binary Oppositions (?) : The Position of Women Characters in Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring. Theory and Practice in English Studies. Masarykova univerzita, 2012, roč. 5, č. 1, s. 1-13. ISSN 1805-0859. Digitální knihovna FF MU URL info

2023/05/08