Office: Calhoun 8

Office Hours: TTh 2-3 Cal 8; Th 5-6 Cactus Café

Phone: 512-232-9125

svejk@mail.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University

Research interests:
- Twentieth-century Czech prose
- Czechoslovak underground culture
- Czech and Russian literary relations

Courses taught:
UNDERGRADUATE
- 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-year Czech language
- Robots and Beer Pubs: Czech Culture from 863 to 1945
" Crime and Punishment Czech Style
- Plastic People, Velvet President: Czechoslovak Underground Culture after 1948
- 20th-Century Czech Prose
- Jara Cimrman

GRADUATE
- Czech thru Russian
- The Evolution of Czech Prose
- Seminar on Bohumil Hrabal

Recent Publications:
BOOKS (authored and edited)
- The Customs and Cultures of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Greenwood Press, 2006.
- Ed. with David Zersen, Transcontinental Encounters: Central Europe Meets the American Heartland. Austin, TX: Concordia UP, 2005.

ARTICLES (selected)
- "Raskolnikov in Bohemia: Early Czech Reception of Dostoevsky," Word, Music, History: A Festschrift for Caryl Emerson. 2 vols. Ed. Lazar Fleishman, Gabriella Safran, and Michael Wachtel. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2005.
- "A Proliferation of Prolixity: The Multiple Narrators of Haiek's The Good Soldier Svejk." American Contributions to the 13th International Congress of Slavists, Ljubljana, 2003. 2 vols. Ed. Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake. Bloomington: Slavica, 2003.
- "Lyric and Narrative Consciousness in Eugene Onegin," Slavic and East European Journal 46.4 (Winter 2002).
- "The Strange Relationship of Stavrogin and Stepan Trofimovich as Related by Anton Lavrentevich G-v," Slavic Review 59.4 (Winter 2000).
- "Faulty Consciousnesses: Milan Kundera's The Joke," Slavic and East European Journal 44.1 (Spring 2000) 92".
- "Capek's Hordubal and Dostoevsky's The Double: Madness and Free-Indirect Discourse," Comparative Literature 52.1 (Winter 2000).

Translations:
BOOKS
- Prague Tales From the Little Quarter, novel by Jan Neruda from Czech to English. Prague: Vitalis, 2005.
- Lovers and Murderers, novel by Vladimir Paral from Czech to English. North Haven: Catbird Press, 2001.

STORIES, ESSAYS, AND PLAYS (selected)
- "Don't Tell Mother," short story by Svatava Antosova from Czech to English in Povidky: Short Stories by Czech Women, ed. Nancy Hawker. London: Telegram Books, 2006.
- Between Two Worlds: The Dybbuk, play by S. An-sky from Russian to English. Stanford UP. Forthcoming.
- "Death of the 'Other"' by K. G. Isupov from Russian to English. Critical Essays on Mikhail Bakhtin, ed. Caryl Emerson. New York: G.K. Hall/Macmillan, 1999).
- "Bakhtin and His Readers" by Vadim Kozhinov from Russian to English. Critical Essays on Mikhail Bakhtin, ed. Caryl Emerson. New York: G.K. Hall/ Macmillan, 1999).

Awards/Honors:
The Silver Spurs Centennial Teaching Award, 2005