Her most recent publications have examined cinematic and televisual legacies in Samuel Beckett’s writing, with a focus on his late prose. Her work has appeared in academic journals and essay collections, including in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, the Journal of Beckett Studies, Beckett and Modernism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and Samuel Beckett and Technology (Edinburgh UP, 2021), which she also co-edited with Einat Adar and Mark Nixon. Her current research focuses on Beckett’s collaborations, in particular with the German television broadcaster Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR/SWR).

Specializations: Samuel Beckett, European modernism, early cinema and television, intermediality 

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Since 1995, Floriánová has specialized in teaching Czech to foreigners for the Calix Language School and privately for international companies like Air,�� Honda, Vodafone, and Webnode.

Additionally, she has been teaching Czech at NYU in Prague since 1999, and since 2014, at Charles University’s Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies, along with work for CIEE and the University Studies Abroad Consortium on their study abroad programs for Americans. 

Specialization:

Czech as a foreign language

Born into a Franco-Berber family in Annaba (Hippo!), Algeria, Badr was educated in literature and foreign languages and received early training in fine arts and theater. He holds a Baccalaureate in Literature and Foreign Languages, a B.A. and M.A. in the Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence, and a Ph.D. in Humanities with a specialization in History and Heritage: Islamic Studies from the University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah in Morocco (2021). His traditional Islamic education includes years of study at madrasahs in Algeria and Morocco, notably the renowned Al-Qarawiyyin University in Fez. He also pursued advanced learning through academic visits to institutions in Turkey, Mauritania, and Tunisia, and holds several Ijāzāt (teaching licenses with authenticated chains of transmission) in core Islamic texts.

Work:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen
Anglo-American University, Prague
Research Fellow, Islam and Liberty Network, Malaysia

Education:
B.A. and M.A. in the Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence.
Ph.D. in Humanities with a specialization in History and Heritage: Islamic Studies from the University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah in Morocco.
Traditional Islamic education includes years of study at madrasahs in Algeria and Morocco, notably the renowned Al-Qarawiyyin University in Fez

Beyond academia, Badr has contributed to a range of Arabic media platforms, reviewed scholarly work for the Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace and the University of West Bohemia, and written and hosted television programs and web documentaries. He is also a performer of Sufi and Andalusian music.

Adar’s work has been published in the essay collections Gallows Humour (2020) and Translating Samuel Beckett around the World (2021), as well as the journals Partial Answers and Estudios Irlandeses. She is also the co-editor, together with Galina Kiryushina and Mark Nixon, of Samuel Beckett and Technology (2021).

Adar holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Philosophy and an M.A. in English Literature and American Studies from Tel Aviv University. Her research interests include Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien, Irish modernism, and philosophy.

literature and philosophy, literary theory, literary modernism, Irish modernism

For over twenty years Joanna has worked as a researcher, a teacher and an administrator. At �������� she is responsible for administering the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, which includes preparing regulations and documents issued by the Vice President, cooperation with other departments and administering the accreditation agenda.

Joanna divides her spare time between her family and small academic projects on medieval history.

Modern and Contemporary Drama and Theatre, Literature and Politics, Irish Studies

Academic and Creative Writing

Contemporary Culture, Subcultures, Music Anthropology, Literature, Gender Studies

His book of nonfiction reportage, The Lands Between: A Central European Journey (danzig & unfried) was published in 2025. His recent journalism articles have appeared in Reflex.cz, Euractiv.cz, and The Slovak Spectator, while his novel, The Talking Statues, was published in 2021. 

American, British and European literature, folklore and mythology, journalism.