Gregor Kalinowski, MA, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Gregor teaches literature, theory and academic writing on the English as a Second Language program at the School of Education. He holds Master’s degrees in Modern Literature and European Philosophy and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kent at Canterbury.
His main research interest is modernist and late modernist literature, focusing especially on Kafka, and he has published on Kafka in peer-reviewed journals such as The German Quarterly, SubStance and Comparative Literature.
Gregor also has a background in language-teaching and teacher-training and has been a CELTA tutor for more than ten years.
Education
Professional Activities
2020 - present — Rector of Prague City University
2017 - 2020 — Rector of Akcent College
1996 - 2018 — Academic Director of Collegium Hieronymi Pragensis/Kolej Jeronýma Pražského
2000 - 2013 —Director of the Institute of General Linguistics, Charles University
1995 - 1997 — Research Fellow at the E. Gellner’s Research Center on Nationalism, CEU - Praha
1994 - 1995 — Visiting Associate Professor, University of Virginia, USA
1979 - 1987 — Assistant Professor of General linguistics, Charles University
Publications
Five books
Three at Mouton de Gruyter, two at Karolinum (Charles University Press)
Articles:
About 40 articles in Czech (Slovo a slovesnost, Kritický sborník, Česká literature, Philologica Pragensia) international Journals (International Journal for the Sociology of Language, Germanistische Mitteilungen, Naučnaja i techničeskaja informacija) and collections of papers published in the Czech Republic (Přednášky letního běhu Slovanských studií, Bulletin ruského jazyka a literatury, Spisovná čeština a jazyková kultura) as well as abroad (Varieties of Czech - Studies in Czech Sociolinguistics)
