doc. Mgr. Zuzana Říhová, Ph.D.

zuzana.rihova@aauni.edu

Letenská 5, Prague 1

Zuzana říhová-4

Zuzana Říhová is an acclaimed scholar of avant-garde and modernism as well as a writer. She graduated with a degree in Czech and Comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Her research centres on the Czech avant-garde and modernism in a wider European context. Říhová consistently publishes in foreign academic journals (eg. Central Europe, Journal of Modern Literature) and collective monographs (Avantgarden im Zentraleuropa, A Cambridge History of World War One Poetry). In 2013, she received a Czech Academy of Sciences Award for Outstanding Research. As a fiction writer, her novel Playing Wolf was shortlisted for the top Czech fiction prize in 2022 and translated into several languages.

Since 2007, Říhová 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 Univerzität zu Berlin); she is regularly invited to give public or university lectures (Université libre de Bruxelles, University of Vienna, Oxford University, Bohemian National Hall, New York).

At , Říhová 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

Scientific monographs 

  • From Laughter to Forgetting. A Sourcebook of Interwar Avant-garde Discourses; ed. Z. Říhová; Praha, Karolinum 2023
  • Vprostřed davu. Česká avantgarda mezi individualismem a kolektivismem; Praha, Academia 2016

Fiction

  • Mimka; Praha, Argo 2026
  • Rok Proměny; Praha, Argo 2024
  • Playing Wolf/ Cestou špendlíků nebo jehel; Praha, Argo 2021 
  • č첹;Praha, Dauphin 2018 
  • Pustím si tě do domu; Praha, Dauphin 2016 

Selected book chapters and articles  

  • „Analphabetic Modernism: T. S. Eliot’s Poetry in Czech Translation in the 1940s“; in H. Veivo et al.: Globalizing Avant-Garde. European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, vol. 7; Berlin, De Gruyter 2023, s. 119–228
  • „Tschechoslowakei, Tschechien, Slowakei“; in D. Unterkofler, V. Faber, W. Müller-Funk, edd.:Avantgarden im Zentraleuropa. Andere Räume, andere Bühnen; Tübingen, Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH 2023, s. 221–254
  • „Czechoslovak Poetry during the First World War“; in J. Potter, ed.: A Cambridge History of World War One Poetry; Cambridge, CUP 2022, s. 118–138
  • „For a New Novel: Milada Součková and Czech Modernist Fiction in the 1930s“; in H. Veivo, ed.: Beyond Given Knowledge. Investigation, Quest and Exploration in Modernism and the Avant-Gardes. European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, vol. 5; Berlin, De Gruyter 2018, s. 299–313
  • „A Farewell to the Whole Epoch: the Zone as the Beginning and End of the Czech Avant-garde“; Journal of Modern Literature 43, 2020, č. 4, s. 45–61
  • „‚Nothing is Certain‘: Czech Post-War Literature Between the Avant-Garde and Expressionism“; Central Europe 14, 2016, č. 2, s. 125–140