Since 2007, ƘíhovĂĄ has been a member of the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and she lectured at a variety of both public and private universities. She also served as a director of PSCC. In 2014, she became Head of Czech at Oxford University, and she was a visiting professor at Columbia University (2018–19). She has completed several internships abroad (SUNY, University of Glasgow, University College London, Humboldt UniverzitĂ€t zu Berlin); she is regularly invited to give public or university lectures (UniversitĂ© libre de Bruxelles, University of Vienna, Oxford University, Bohemian National Hall, New York).

At čúČúÂÒÂŚ, ƘíhovĂĄ teaches classes on modernism (Modernist Metropolis) and creative writing – writing fiction is her passion. When she isn’t writing, she lifts kettlebells, runs, and picks mushrooms with her two daughters.

Specializations: avant-garde and modernism, creative writing and storytelling

Publications & Other Activities

His research is conducted on rats and humans in an attempt to understand how the brain and its neurochemical systems are organized for basic sexual responses such as arousal, desire, sexual pleasure and orgasm, and sexual inhibition and disgust. His work has illuminated the neural and molecular mechanisms by which conditioned sexual responses potentiate sexual preferences and reproduction and how they contribute to the development of fetishes and paraphilias. He has received several prestigious international awards for this work.

He has published more than 260 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters on the neurobiology of sexual behavior in women and men, and his work has led to the development of new drugs to treat sexual dysfunctions and ways to offset the effects of medications that have debilitating side effects on sexuality. He has given hundreds of interviews on television, radio, and social media, and his work has been featured in films and documentaries. He is the editor-in-chief of Current Sexual Health Reports, an associate editor of Sexual Medicine Reviews and Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, a former associate editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, and he serves on the editorial boards of other scientific journals in the fields of sexuality, neuroscience, and pharmacology. He is a member of several international organizations, including the International and Europeans Societies for Sexual Medicine, the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, Society for Neuroscience, and International Academy of Sex Research (where he served as president from 2016-2017).Ìę

She has led multiple grant-funded projects on olfactory perception, developmental psychology, and affective processes. Her research has been published in leading international journals and has contributed to advancing the interdisciplinary understanding of sensory processes within psychology and behavioral sciences. She is an active member of several international professional societies dedicated to chemosensory science and human ethology, including the European Chemoreception Research Organization.

In her free time, she enjoys spending time outdoors, reading popular cosmology books, practicing aromachology, and pole dancing.

In her role as Assistant Dean and Lecturer at Anglo-American University, she works closely with students to support academic progression and personal development in an international learning environment, helping them cultivate the skills and mindset needed for academic success.

As a mental-health counsellor, she has assisted others through life transitions, existential crises, and personality realignment. With her clients, she explores core life concerns through positive, transformative processes of emotional healing, self-discovery, and personal growth.

After serving as a postdoctoral research scientist (1994-1997) at SUNY-Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, Chris held faculty positions at Mount Holyoke College (1997-1998), Troy University (1998-2005), and Kennesaw State University (2005-2025). Chris has also served in a variety of administrative roles during his career, including Psychology Department Chair and Interim Dean of the College of Education at Troy University, Associate Director for Technology-Enhanced Learning in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Kennesaw State University, and Assistant Chair and Interim Department Chair of the Department of Psychological Science at Kennesaw State University.

Chris’s current scholarly focus and research interests include comparative & evolutionary psychology, learning and behavior, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Ć antĂșrovĂĄ covered Czech and Slovak news for the English-language service of Deutsche-Presse Agentur (dpa) and was Time Magazine’s stringer in the Czech Republic. She wrote for Eastern Approaches, The Economist’s blog on Central and Eastern Europe, and the Economist Espresso—the magazine’s daily morning briefing.

As a senior reporter at the Czech edition of Newsweek, she received the 2015 Journalism Prize for her cover story on methamphetamines. Ć antĂșrovĂĄ was a foreign-language interview editor at DVTV, a Prague-based, award-winning online television channel, and she worked as a reporter at the HospodáƙskĂ© noviny business daily, Ekonom weekly, and the Czech edition of Bloomberg Businessweek.Ìę

Ć antĂșrovĂĄ also gained experience in international education through opening the American Councils office in Prague and ran the US-government Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) high school exchange program in the Czech Republic. She now works as a fact-checking journalist with Agence France-Presse and an adjunct lecturer at čúČúÂÒÂŚ.

Ethics; Applied Ethics (especially medical ethics)

She worked at Yasar University in various administrative and academic positions. Yarimoglu became an Assistant Professor in 2012, Associate Professor in 2017, and a Full Professor of Marketing in 2023. She worked at Comenius University in Bratislava as a Visiting Scholar. 

Yarimoglu has over 50 scientific papers published in both indexed journals and reputable academic publishers. She serves as a reviewer, editorial board member, and editor in academic journals. She has led conferences in the fields of business and marketing and still serves as a reviewer, scientific committee member, and track chair at prestigious conferences. 

Her main research interests consist of customer satisfaction and loyalty, intentions, service quality, sustainable food consumption, and environmentally friendly consumer behaviors.   

Specializations: Marketing

Courses taught: Marketing Management, Marketing Research, Business Research Methods, International Marketing, Introduction to Management, Project Management, Services Marketing, Retail Management, Product and Brand Management, Research Methodology and Ethics

Selected Publications:

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 SĂŒddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR/SWR).

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

Recent Publications: